Translation of "marque au vent " (French → English) :

14. Considers that, in the context of these new forms of territorial cooperation, Member States should be able to use all measures of rural development linked to a quality policy for food products, with the aim of developing in particular sales in local markets and short supply chains and improving the sustainability as well as the knowledge of production methods, while fully respecting the EU rules and without affecting, undermining or weakening the existing Union quality schemes, such as protected designation of origin (PDO), protected geographical indication (PGI) and Traditional Specialities Guaranteed (TSG); considers that, in the agri-food sector, the territorial excellence branding should be confined to promoting the ...[+++]PDO-PGI-TSG quality schemes where they exist or to supporting their creation where they do not yet exist; calls on the Commission, taking account of the proliferation of multiple labels and regional brandings regarding food products in Europe, to draw up an inventory of brands with specific regional features, in order to avoid any possible negative effects on the quality schemes; maintains that the concept of regional branding should be clearly defined, taking into account the favourable experience with existing quality labels (PDO, AOC, PGI), and that coordinated strategies should be drawn up to avoid duplication and overlapping, proceeding from a shared common approach based on a framework to be laid down at EU level;

In his Opinion delivered today, Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen finds, first of all, that testers and dramming bottles, often marked with the words ‘not for sale’ or ‘not for individual sale’, which are not intended for sale to customers and are supplied without charge to the trade mark proprietor's authorised distributors cannot be considered as being goods put on the market with the consent of the trade mark proprietor.

AA. whereas ACTA footnote 9 states: 'Each Party shall treat wilful importation or exportation of counterfeit trademark goods or pirated copyright goods on a commercial scale as unlawful activities subject to criminal penalties under this Article. A Party may comply with its obligation relating to exportation and importation of pirated copyright or counterfeit trademark goods by providing for distribution, sale or offer for sale of counterfeit trademark goods or pirated copyright goods on a commercial scale as unlawful activities subje ...[+++]ct to criminal penalties',

With regard to multi-brand sales and servicing, various provisions in the contracts were hindering BMW dealers and repairers from using their existing facilities to sell or service cars of competing brands, without having to unnecessarily duplicate investments.

GM also clarified that its dealers can set up multi-brand internet sites and that GM trained sales personnel can also be used for selling cars of other brands while no GM-specific training is any longer required in respect of staff entrusted with the sale of competing brands.

Below cost selling puts large-scale distributors at an advantage compared to small distributors, who are not able to offset below cost sales with higher margins on other products because, in overall terms, they sell fewer branded products and smaller quantities of any one brand.