European Parliament
Maria do Céu Patrão Neves  (PPE ),
in writing.
(PT)
Before the vote on this report, one of my colleagues suggested returning this document to the Commission because he thought it needed to be improved, but that idea was rejected. This document includes two issues that should be separated: the serious problem of counterfeiting and the issue of online piracy. Since the original document should have been structured differently, I voted in favour of returning it. I abstained on principle from the final vote on the serious problem of counterfeiting, which has been costing European companies EUR 250 billion and destroying 185 000 jobs, every year.

