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The Treaty of Lisbon, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, made the European Council (EUCO) an official institution of the European Union. It consists of the head of state or government of each member state of the EU, as well as without a vote, the president of the European Commission (José Manuel Barroso) and the EUCO president elected ...

After the introductory blog post about the proposed EU regulation^[1] about customs enforcement of intellectual property rights COM(2011) 285^[2], we follow this future ”more robust enforcement tool” to the European Parliament.

The committee stage in the EP is soon closing for the new regulation^[3]. The Committee on the Internal Market and...

Today, most of the documents for the 29 February 2012 meeting of the Committee on International Trade^[1] (INTA) of the European Parliament have now been posted online.

Among the documents we find (Agenda item No 23^[2]):

COUNCIL DECISION on the conclusion of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States,...

The digital agenda and the intellectual property agenda of the EU are closely related.

On 24 May 2011, the same day the European Commission published its strategy paper A Single Market for Intelletual Property Rights COM(2011) 287^[1], it also proposed new measures to toughen the control at the borders of the customs union.

For an overview, you...