EU Trade Mark Regime: Initial Appraisal of the Commission's Impact Assessment

Briefing 15-07-2013

This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's Impact Assessment (IA) accompanying the following proposals, submitted on 27 March 2013: Commission proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark (COM (2013) 161; and Commission proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (recast) (COM (2013) 162).