EU Will Amend The European Trademark Law And Crack Down On Counterfeit Goods.

In recent years, a large number of Counterfeit goods Entry into Europe has forced the EU to crack down on counterfeit goods and enter into a new anti counterfeiting Ordinance this year. At the same time, the EU will also amend the Trademark Law of Europe to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights.

Earlier, a European Union report said that counterfeit goods from 2/3 in the European market came from China.

Austria's standard newspaper recently reported a flood of counterfeit goods. European market In 2012 alone, the customs confirmed 40 million counterfeit goods, with a market value of about 900 million euros.

In order to combat counterfeit goods, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union 2013 (2013 stores) promulgated the 608/2013 (EU) anti counterfeiting article in January 1, 2014.

Compared with the previous laws, the existing regulations simplify the procedures for the destruction of counterfeit goods seized by the customs, and no longer require the court to identify the goods in advance.

In addition, in order to fill some loopholes that still exist after the entry into force of the new regulations, the EU will gradually revise the Trademark Law of Europe. 95% of the counterfeit goods seized by the EU customs in 2012 were suspected of violating the trademark law.

According to the earlier report of Der Spiegel, a German media, nearly 2/3 of the counterfeit goods in Europe are from China to Bulgaria and Turkey.

The European Commission Intellectual property protection The 2013 annual report shows that the export volume of China's counterfeit and shoddy products ranks first, and 64% of the products being intercepted by customs are produced in China, down from 77% in 2012, and the total value of counterfeit and shoddy products is nearly one billion euros.

According to the report, 70% of illegal entry products were seized while checking the mail, of which 23% were counterfeit drugs. The largest proportion of counterfeit cigarettes is 31%. Apart from China, Hongkong, Bulgaria and Turkey follow closely behind the export of counterfeit goods.

The EU report also claimed that copyright or trademark rights of nearly 40 million of the total value were infringed last year, 144 million. 90 thousand counterfeit goods incidents were found this year, but little changed compared with last year.