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Counterfeit medicine is on the increase (Photo: www.freeimages.co.uk)

MEPs to vote on EU penalties against fake products

MEPs will on Tuesday (20 March) vote on a draft law that could see EU-wide criminal penalties for counterfeiting and violating intellectual property rights.

Members of the European Parliament's legal affairs committee will give their view on a draft report by Italian socialist MEP Nicola Zingaretti following an April 2006 European Commission proposal for a law on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

According to the commission, the r...

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Counterfeit medicine is on the increase (Photo: www.freeimages.co.uk)

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