B9 9732. En het laatste met de nieuwe Europese IER-Strategie samenhangende voorstel, een richtlijn om het Europees Waarnemingscentrum voor Namaak en Piraterij te versterken door de taken ervan aan het Bureau voor harmonisatie binnen de interne markt (BHIM) toe te vertrouwen.
Europese Commissie, COM(2011) 288. Proposal for a Regulation Of The European Parliament And Of The Council on entrusting the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) with certain tasks related to the protection of intellectual property rights, including the assembling of public and private sector representatives as a European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy.
Over the last two years, the Observatory's institutional framework has been set up. This setting up phase of the Observatory having been concluded it shows that, due to a lack of funding, human resources, IT and meeting capacities and necessary expertise, with its current infrastructure it will not be able to meet its objectives in the future and that the taking on of additional tasks under the current setting would be excluded. The specific objective therefore is to ensure that the Observatory has the necessary infrastructure to deliver its tasks effectively, as quickly as possible and without any costs for the EU budget.
In this initiative the Observatory would be run by an existing agency the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal market (OHIM). This would allow the Observatory to profit from existing administrative structures (such as human resources and finance).
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