The European Commission is establishing a body to analyse the scale of counterfeiting and piracy and to co-ordinate international action on the issue. It has asked each member state to nominate a co-ordinator to aid the process.
The Commission has said that counterfeiting and piracy are having a "dramatic and damaging" effect on economies in the European Union, but stopped short of proposing any change in EU laws on copyright.
Source: Out-Law.com
