Regulation 1383/2003 and the effects of Border Detention on Intellectual Property Rights - at the European Community level with particular reference to the German and the Dutch experience.
The infringement of intellectual property rights has devastating effects on trade, the free circulation of goods, employment, development and public health. Rights holders and the companies legitimately exploiting them are the main parties injured by this and in the last few years, infringement has increased by more than 1000%. The Commission has fought against such infringement since the eighties