Translation of "marque d'agrément cee de modèle " (French → English) :

2. Counterfeiting, which initially affected luxury industries in the form of fraudulent copying of trademarks, designs and models, has now spread to all areas of the economy.

As regards fundamentals, all participants, whatever the branch of civil society for which they were the representative or spokesman, stressed their commitment to the "European model of society" and, through it, to the "European social model".

Council Directive 89/104/EEC of 21 December 1988 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (OJ 1989 L 40, p. 1); in addition, Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1) gave rise to the Community trade mark, the registration and administration of which are managed by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) in Alicante.

- Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market Following the agreement reached at the Internal Market Council on 16 June 1994 (see press release 7733/94 Presse 121), the Council formally appointed for a five-year period: = Mr Alberto J. CASADO CERVIÑO (Spain), Vice-President of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs) with special responsibility for administration and staff questions; = Mr A ...[+++]lexander von MÜHLENDAHL (Federal Republic of Germany), Vice- President of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs) with special responsibility for legal matters.

- 2 - The approach adopted by the directive includes the following main points: - any terminal certified as conforming with the technical requirements will be authorized for marketing; - the "right of connection" to public telecommunications networks in the Community will be guaranteed for certified equipment, without the need for repeated testing and approval procedures; - the tests will be carried out and approval issued by approved laboratories and certification bodies set out in a Community list. To be on this list laboratories and bodies must meet strict criteria of competence, impartiality and independence which are harmonized at ...[+++] Community level; - the certificates of conformity issued under the procedure laid down by the Directive will be fully recognized in all Member State; - to assess conformity manufacturers will have the choice of two procedures, the EEC type-approval examination and the EEC declaration of conformity; - manufacturers will have the right to choose the laboratory or body that carries out the tests for conformity with the common technical specifications on their equipment. Accreditation of the laboratory of the manufacturer is possible as long as it satisfies the selection criteria; - the directive demands that the Member States should take all suitable measures to ensure that only terminals which meet the requirements set out in the directive are marketed. The Member States may take measures to disconnect any equipment which is not approved; - certified equipment will all bear an identical mark, namely, the "EC" mark, and other distinctive symbols making them readily identifiable.

The new proposal is accordingly designed to remedy these. 1. It extends the scope of the legislation so that it covers not only counterfeit goods, as at present, but also pirated goods, (i.e. goods made without the consent of the holder of the copyright or related rights, including designs rights. 2. It broadens the definition of the term "counterfeit goods" to take in not only the goods themselves, as is already the case, but the actual trade mark symbol (logo), packaging bearing the marks of the products, and tools, moulds or simila ...[+++]r materials specifically intended for the manufacture of counterfeit marks or products. 3. It allows the customs authority itself to decide on applications by trade mark owners (in some Member States applications currently have to go through the judicial authorities, a time-consuming and cumbersome procedure).