Traduction de «ambush » (Anglais → Français) :

L. whereas while the security situation in northern Mali has improved since the French intervention, the struggle against radical Islamist groups continues; whereas there is a need to maintain the momentum against isolated terrorist threats in some northern areas, such as the recent threats to Timbuktu and Gao, requiring a stabilising force and quick response capacities; whereas armed extremists are increasingly resorting to asymmetric tactics, such as guerrilla ambushes, suicide attacks, car bombings and the use of anti-personnel land-mines; whereas, therefore, maintaining peace and security in the medium and long term presents excep ...[+++]tional challenges;

Rapid technological progress in industries with economy-wide significance has led to risks that may result from patent thickets[44] and patent ambushes[45].

[45] "Patent ambushes" occur when the participant in a standard setting procedure discloses that he holds patents or patent applications regarding a technology included in the standard only once the standard is adopted and then refuses to grant a licence for these patents or grants it only on unfair, unreasonable or discriminatory terms.

Mrs Győri, you tell us that the Council has no say in the appointment of these officials, which is legally correct, but some Member States are lying in ambush. Moreover, the Commissioner pointed out that his departments had to tell some countries to send pre-eminent people.

3. Does the Commission intend to tackle the problem of patent ambush in the framework of the new draft regulations or does it consider that complementary sector-specific legislation would be necessary to avoid abuse of patent rights?

Calls on the Commission and Member States to introduce legislation and/or strengthen existing regulations and to attach particular importance to respecting intellectual property rights relating to commercial communications, trademarks and images, names, media rights and any other spin-offs from the sporting events organisers are running, so as to protect the professional sport economy, while respecting the right of ‘short reporting’ as stipulated by Directive 2007/65/EC (12) (‘Audiovisual Media Services’ Directive) and the self-sustained and balanced development of sport, without putting at stake the proper balance between a sporting organisation's legitimate concerns and the needs of the public to be able to access and create objective, in ...[+++]formative and topical information in the forms of written, pictorial and audio content; points out that it is also important to ensure that recipients are guaranteed the possibility of having access to sporting events at cross-border level within the EU at a distance; in particular, problems of ambush marketing, Internet piracy and unlawful sports betting should be addressed as a priority by Member States and the Commission;