European Parliament
Lorenzo Fontana  (EFD ),
in writing.
(IT)
The proposal for a regulation confines itself to implementing the powers of an existing office, the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) and changing the name of the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy to the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights. Since the Observatory is expected to perform its functions by using own funds, since this regulation highlights the protection of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and since it does not prevent the Member States from exercising their own powers in this field, I voted in favour.

