By akademiotoelektronik, 16/10/2022

Counterfeit: the deputies vote a text to try to face

Toys, cigarettes, medicines, clothes, etc..: Unanimous, the National Assembly adopted Thursday at first reading a bill to better fight counterfeiting, an "underestimated poison" which "finances very organized mafia sectors".This text, at the end still uncertain as the parliamentary calendar is tight, concretizes the work of deputies Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Act ensemble) and Christophe Blanchet (modem), members of the majority and authors of a report on the subject.

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It offers in particular the establishment of a dedicated observatory within the National Institute of Intellectual Property (INPI) and the creation of a flat -rate fine of 200 euros for people who hold counterfeit products.

The bill wants to extend the practice of "customs boost" to falsified drugs, by making them buy and control by customs agents, if necessary with loan identities.The text also intends to strengthen the provisions faced with the magnitude of the sales of counterfeit products on the Internet.

A shortfall of eight billion euros per year

Christophe Blanchet calls to "change the look" on counterfeit, far from being limited to the luxury sector."The first counterfeit product in France is games and toys for children.It is urgent to educate our fellow citizens about the danger they take for their children when they buy counterfeiting on the Internet, "he insists.

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In total, counterfeiting products represent a shortfall for the French state of eight billion euros per year, estimates the parliamentary report.It is also "a proposal for a law of appeal so that we go faster and further, and that within the framework of the French presidency of the European Union" in early 2022, "France can carry this subject".More particularly on the "responsibility of platforms and social networks which let too many counterfeit products prosper", insisted Pierre-Yves Bournazel in the hemicycle.