Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-03-Speech-2-312-000"
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"en.20120703.18.2-312-000"2
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"I voted in favour of this proposed EU regulation. This new text strengthens procedures enabling customs authorities to prevent the movement of goods which they suspect of infringing intellectual property rights. Due to a lack of resources, enforcement of the EU’s external borders is often insufficient. When enforcement at external borders is ineffective, the damage has already been done. It seems that intellectual property rights enforcement within the internal market is extremely difficult and costly once the goods spread across different Member States. Counterfeiting is a real menace which costs European businesses EUR 250 billion each year. Large parts of economic growth and jobs in the EU depend on the effective enforcement of intellectual property rights. Some counterfeit goods can pose a real threat to the health and safety of consumers. I was, as it happens, rapporteur for a directive on preventing the entry of falsified medicines into the EU, in 2010. I invested a great deal of effort in tackling these crimes, which constitute deliberate acts of poisoning, that is to say, genuine attempts at premeditated murder."@en1
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