COM(2011)287 - Single Market for Intellectual Property RightsBoosting creativity and innovation to provide economic growth, high quality jobs and first class products and services in Europe

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Key information

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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS A Single Market for Intellectual Property RightsBoosting creativity and innovation to provide economic growth, high quality jobs and first class products and services in Europe
 
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reference by COM-number55 COM(2011)287 EN
Additional COM-numbers COM(2011)287
CELEX number58 52011DC0287

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Document 24-05-2011
Online publication 26-05-2011

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  • 1. 
    According to IFPI, total value of the EU recorded music market is around EUR 6 billion. The recorded music market presents around a fifth of the total music market which is worth close to EUR 30 billion.

     
  • 2. 
    Motion picture production, distribution and exhibition as well as video rentals and sales account for 10% of copyright turnover. The audiovisual industry in Europe produces more than 1,100 films per year and employs over 1 million people. Source: Multi-Territory Licensing of Audiovisual Works in the European Union, KEA study, October 2010.

     
  • 3. 
    See point 2 and footnote 5.

     
  • 4. 
    Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks, OJ L 299, 8.11.2008, p. 25.

     
  • 5. 
    Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark, OJ L78, 24.3.2009, p.1.

     
  • 6. 
    See: Europe 2020 Strategy (COM (2010) 2020), the Annual Growth Survey 2011 (COM (2011) 11), the Digital Agenda for Europe (COM (2010) 245), the Single Market Act (COM (2011) 206) and the Innovation Union (COM (2010) 546).

     
  • 7. 
    'The value of knowledge: European firms and the intellectual property challenge' an Economist Intelligence Unit White Paper, The Economist, January 2007. 53% of respondents said that the use of IPR will be very important or critical to their business models in two years, compared to 35% who considered this to be the case at the time of the survey.

     
  • 8. 
    The Work Foundation: The knowledge economy in Europe, report prepared for the 2007 Spring European Council.

     
  • 9. 
    Source: www.wipo.int/sme/en/documents/valuing_patents.

     
  • 10. 
    Source: Ocean Tomo as cited in "The 2011 drug patent cliff and the evolution of IP evaluation" by Liza Porteus Viana, Intellectual Property Watch, 11.01.2011.

     
  • 11. 
    Source: Eurobrand Study 2009, Country Review, study.eurobrand.cc

     
  • 12. 
    Directive 2001/29/EC of 22 May 2011 on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, OJ L167, 22.6.2001, p. 10.

     
  • 13. 
    www.europeana.eu/portal/.

     
  • 14. 
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  • 15. 
    COM (2008) 464 final.

     
  • 16. 
    The term 'counterfeiting and piracy' should be understood as covering the infringement of all intellectual property rights as referred to in the Statement by the Commission concerning Article 2 of Directive 2004/48/EC, OJ L94, 13.4.2005, p. 37.

     
  • 17. 
    Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003 of 22 July 2003 concerning customs action against goods suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights and the measures to be taken against goods found to have infringed such rights, OJ L 196 , 02.08.2003, p. 7.

     
  • 18. 
    COM (2010) 779, ec.europa.eu/internal_market/iprenforcement

     
  • 19. 
    ec.europa.eu/internal_market/iprenforcement

     
  • 20. 
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  • 21. 
    OJ C129 of 26.5.2005.

     
  • 22. 
    The ACTA (available at ec.europa.eu/trade/creating-opportunities) builds on the 1994 TRIPS agreement to improve global standards for the enforcement of IPR. It addresses the way in which companies and individuals can enforce their rights in court, at the borders and on the Internet.

     
  • 23. 
    Council Resolution of 16 March 2009, OJ C71, 25.3.2009, p. 1.

     
  • 24. 
    See: Europe 2020 Strategy (COM (2010) 2020), the Annual Growth Survey 2011 (COM (2011) 11), the Digital Agenda for Europe (COM (2010) 245), the Single Market Act (COM (2011) 206) and the Innovation Union (COM (2010) 546).

     
  • 25. 
    'The value of knowledge: European firms and the intellectual property challenge' an Economist Intelligence Unit White Paper, The Economist, January 2007. 53% of respondents said that the use of IPR will be very important or critical to their business models in two years, compared to 35% who considered this to be the case at the time of the survey.

     
  • 26. 
    See: Europe 2020 Strategy (COM (2010) 2020), the Annual Growth Survey 2011 (COM (2011) 11), the Digital Agenda for Europe (COM (2010) 245), the Single Market Act (COM (2011) 206) and the Innovation Union (COM (2010) 546).

     
  • 27. 
    'The value of knowledge: European firms and the intellectual property challenge' an Economist Intelligence Unit White Paper, The Economist, January 2007. 53% of respondents said that the use of IPR will be very important or critical to their business models in two years, compared to 35% who considered this to be the case at the time of the survey.

     
  • 28. 
    According to IFPI, total value of the EU recorded music market is around EUR 6 billion. The recorded music market presents around a fifth of the total music market which is worth close to EUR 30 billion.

     
  • 29. 
    Motion picture production, distribution and exhibition as well as video rentals and sales account for 10% of copyright turnover. The audiovisual industry in Europe produces more than 1,100 films per year and employs over 1 million people. Source: Multi-Territory Licensing of Audiovisual Works in the European Union, KEA study, October 2010.

     
  • 30. 
    See point 2 and footnote 5.

     
  • 31. 
    Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks, OJ L 299, 8.11.2008, p. 25.

     
  • 32. 
    Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark, OJ L78, 24.3.2009, p.1.

     
  • 33. 
    See: Europe 2020 Strategy (COM (2010) 2020), the Annual Growth Survey 2011 (COM (2011) 11), the Digital Agenda for Europe (COM (2010) 245), the Single Market Act (COM (2011) 206) and the Innovation Union (COM (2010) 546).

     
  • 34. 
    'The value of knowledge: European firms and the intellectual property challenge' an Economist Intelligence Unit White Paper, The Economist, January 2007. 53% of respondents said that the use of IPR will be very important or critical to their business models in two years, compared to 35% who considered this to be the case at the time of the survey.

     
  • 35. 
    The Work Foundation: The knowledge economy in Europe, report prepared for the 2007 Spring European Council.

     
  • 36. 
    Source: www.wipo.int/sme/en/documents/valuing_patents.

     
  • 37. 
    Source: Ocean Tomo as cited in "The 2011 drug patent cliff and the evolution of IP evaluation" by Liza Porteus Viana, Intellectual Property Watch, 11.01.2011.

     
  • 38. 
    Source: Eurobrand Study 2009, Country Review, study.eurobrand.cc

     
  • 39. 
    Directive 2001/29/EC of 22 May 2011 on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, OJ L167, 22.6.2001, p. 10.

     
  • 40. 
    www.europeana.eu/portal/.

     
  • 41. 
    -->
     
  • 42. 
    COM (2008) 464 final.

     
  • 43. 
    The term 'counterfeiting and piracy' should be understood as covering the infringement of all intellectual property rights as referred to in the Statement by the Commission concerning Article 2 of Directive 2004/48/EC, OJ L94, 13.4.2005, p. 37.

     
  • 44. 
    Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003 of 22 July 2003 concerning customs action against goods suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights and the measures to be taken against goods found to have infringed such rights, OJ L 196 , 02.08.2003, p. 7.

     
  • 45. 
    COM (2010) 779, ec.europa.eu/internal_market/iprenforcement

     
  • 46. 
    ec.europa.eu/internal_market/iprenforcement

     
  • 47. 
    -->
     
  • 48. 
    OJ C129 of 26.5.2005.

     
  • 49. 
    The ACTA (available at ec.europa.eu/trade/creating-opportunities) builds on the 1994 TRIPS agreement to improve global standards for the enforcement of IPR. It addresses the way in which companies and individuals can enforce their rights in court, at the borders and on the Internet.

     
  • 50. 
    Council Resolution of 16 March 2009, OJ C71, 25.3.2009, p.
     
  • 51. 
    See: Europe 2020 Strategy (COM (2010) 2020), the Annual Growth Survey 2011 (COM (2011) 11), the Digital Agenda for Europe (COM (2010) 245), the Single Market Act (COM (2011) 206) and the Innovation Union (COM (2010) 546).

     
  • 52. 
    'The value of knowledge: European firms and the intellectual property challenge' an Economist Intelligence Unit White Paper, The Economist, January 2007. 53% of respondents said that the use of IPR will be very important or critical to their business models in two years, compared to 35% who considered this to be the case at the time of the survey.

     
  • 53. 
    See: Europe 2020 Strategy (COM (2010) 2020), the Annual Growth Survey 2011 (COM (2011) 11), the Digital Agenda for Europe (COM (2010) 245), the Single Market Act (COM (2011) 206) and the Innovation Union (COM (2010) 546).

     
  • 54. 
    'The value of knowledge: European firms and the intellectual property challenge' an Economist Intelligence Unit White Paper, The Economist, January 2007. 53% of respondents said that the use of IPR will be very important or critical to their business models in two years, compared to 35% who considered this to be the case at the time of the survey.

     
  • 55. 
    De Europese Commissie kent nummers toe aan officiële documenten van de Europese Unie. De Commissie maakt onderscheid in een aantal typen documenten door middel van het toekennen van verschillende nummerseries. Het onderscheid is gebaseerd op het soort document en/of de instelling van de Unie van wie het document afkomstig is.
     
  • 56. 
    De Raad van de Europese Unie kent aan wetgevingsdossiers een uniek toe. Dit nummer bestaat uit een vijfcijferig volgnummer gevolgd door een schuine streep met de laatste twee cijfers van het jaartal, bijvoorbeeld 12345/00 - een document met nummer 12345 uit het jaar 2000.
     
  • 57. 
    Het interinstitutionele nummer is een nummerreeks die binnen de Europese Unie toegekend wordt aan voorstellen voor regelgeving van de Europese Commissie.
    Binnen de Europese Unie worden nog een aantal andere nummerseries gebruikt. Iedere instelling heeft één of meerdere sets documenten met ieder een eigen nummering. Die reeksen komen niet overeen met elkaar of het interinstitutioneel nummer.
     
  • 58. 
    Deze databank van de Europese Unie biedt de mogelijkheid de actuele werkzaamheden (workflow) van de Europese instellingen (Europees Parlement, Raad, ESC, Comité van de Regio's, Europese Centrale Bank, Hof van Justitie enz.) te volgen. EURlex volgt alle voorstellen (zoals wetgevende en begrotingsdossiers) en mededelingen van de Commissie, vanaf het moment dat ze aan de Raad of het Europees Parlement worden voorgelegd.
     
  • 59. 
    Als dag van bekendmaking van een Europees besluit geldt de dag waarop het besluit in het Publicatieblad wordt bekendgemaakt, en daardoor in alle officiële talen van de Europese Unie bij het Publicatiebureau beschikbaar is.