EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES LIBERALISATION OF SPARE PARTS MARKET
December 1st, 2007
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has given the go-ahead to legislation which will end design protection for most spare parts and other machinery components across the 27-country European Union (EU).
MEPs voted for the changes to the EU's legal protection of designs directive, which will come into force in 2013, assuming it is backed by the EU Council of Ministers - which shares veto rights over EU legislation. The European Commission had proposed that the liberalisation came into force in 2008, but MEPs have proposed delaying its ...
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