Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Review of Legislation on Enforcement - European Communities

World Trade Organization RESTRICTED IP/Q4/EEC/1 14 September 1998 (98-3465) Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Original: English/ French/ Spanish REVIEW OF LEGISLATION ON ENFORCEMENT EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES The present document reproduces the questions put to the delegation of the European Communities and the responses given in the review of legislation on enforcement at the Council's meeting of 17-21 November 1997. _______________ REPLy TO QUESTION posed by HONG KONG, CHINA The European Union Council (EC) Regulation (the Regulation) only contains measures to prohibit the release for free circulation, import or export of counterfeit/pirated goods in Member States. In order to provide sufficient and unified criminal legislation to Member States, will the European Community plan to introduce criminal laws relating to intellectual property rights into the Regulation? Article 11 of Regulation No. 3295/94 p