Translation of "Méthode d'analyse numérique de Hammar " (French → English) :

Hammar planimetric method

21. Welcomes the Commission’s action plan to modernise the enforcement of intellectual property rights online with regard to commercial scale infringement; highlights the importance of copyright law and related rights being respected in the digital age; considers that copyright enforcement as laid down in Directive 2004/48/EC across Member States is extremely important and that copyright and related rights are only as effective as the enforcement measures in place to protect them; highlights that the EU faces a significant number of IPR infringements and that, according to the Commission’s data, customs authorities noted more than 95 000 detention cases in 2014, while the value of the 35.5 million articles seized is estimated to be more ...[+++]than EUR 600 million; emphasises the role of the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights to provide reliable data and objective analyses of the impacts of infringements on economic actors; calls, therefore, for an effective, sustainable, proportionate and modernised approach to the enforcement, implementation and protection of intellectual property rights online, particularly with regard to commercial-scale infringement, to be adopted; notes that in some cases copyright infringements may result from difficulty in finding legally available desired content; calls, therefore, for a wider range of user-friendly legal offers to be developed and promoted to the public;

The idea here is to support, through research and analysis projects, the development of digital literacy training methods, especially for European citizens who have problems with access to traditional education and training.

1.25. Quantitative method means an analytical method which determines the amount or mass fraction of a substance so that it may be expressed as a numerical value of appropriate units.

Within the OECD, collaboration continues between the European Union and Canada on the analysis of the social impact of information technologies and the digital divide, implementation of consumer protection guidelines for e-commerce and methods for effective measurement of components of the information society, including development of a set of cross-national statistical indicators for e-commerce.