COUNTERFEIT GOODS
July 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNSMALL and medium sized businesses will find it cheaper in future to get the authorities to act when counterfeited goods are suspected, EU ministers have agreed. Under new measures aimed at halting the flow of fake goods into the EU, investigations by the Customs and Excise into suspected counterfeiting will become free of charge. Previously companies have had to pay for investigations in nine of the 15 Member States including the UK, where charges begin at Pounds 200 a month plusVAT, and Germany. This was "discouraging" to the firms involved and ...
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