Traduction de «Calotte de protection en 2 pièces » (Français → Anglais) :

2005 report on the protection of euro coins against counterfeiting notes

With a view to enhancing the protection of euro coins against counterfeiting the Commission/OLAF organised on 28/29 November 2005 a conference on the interaction between investigation and technical/scientific analysis with regard to counterfeit euro coins. The conference, financed under the Pericles programme, took place in Paris at the Monnaie de Paris (French Mint) which provides facilities for the analysis of counterfeit euro coins by the ETSC. It brought together around 50 police investigators and technicians from EU Member States and third countries together with representatives from OLAF, Europol, Interpol and the ECB.

(1) Whereas the sole purpose of design protection is to grant exclusive rights to the appearance of a product, but not a monopoly over the product as such; whereas protecting designs for which there is no practical alternative would lead in fact to a product monopoly; whereas such protection would come close to an abuse of the design regime; whereas if thirds parties are allowed to produce and distribute spare parts, competition is maintained; whereas if design protection is extended to spare parts, such third parties infringe tho ...[+++]se rights, competition is eliminated and the holder of the design right is de facto given a product monopoly,

(1) Whereas the sole purpose of design protection is to grant exclusive rights to the appearance of a product, but not a monopoly over the product as such or the component parts thereof; whereas protecting designs for which there is no practical alternative would lead in fact to a product monopoly on the products for which they were used; whereas such protection would come close to an abuse of the design regime; whereas if third parties are allowed to produce and distribute spare parts for repair purposes, competition is maintained ...[+++]; whereas if design protection is extended to spare parts, such third parties infringe those rights, competition is eliminated and the holder of the design right is de facto given a product monopoly,

So the design protection which is conferred for the new part on the primary market can also be applied to the spare part on the secondary market (aftermarket).

In this light, Mr Monti indicated his satisfaction that, at least, the Common Position excludes in principle protection for car spare parts which are not visible during normal use (e.g. oil filters, fan belts, other engine parts) and could thus be freely reproduced by independent part manufacturers as soon as a new car model reaches the market.