PURPOSE: to codify a Directive on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property.
PROPOSED ACT: Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council.
CONTENT: the purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Directive 92/100/EEC on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property. This is being done in accordance with EU provisions for the simplification and clarification of EU law given that Directive 92/100/EEC has been subject to numerous amendments.
The new Directive will supersede the various acts incorporated in it whilst fully preserving the content of the acts being codified. It does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.
The committee adopted the report by its chairman, Giuseppe GARGANI (EPP-ED, IT), approving unamended (under the codecision procedure) the codified version of the proposed directive on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property.
The European Parliament adopted the resolution drafted by Giuseppe GARGANI (EPP-ED, IT), and approved the codified version of the proposed directiveon rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property.
PURPOSE: to codify Council Directive 92/100/EEC on rental rights and lending rights and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Directive 2006/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property (codified version).
CONTENT: the purpose of this proposal is to codify Council Directive 92/100/EEC on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property. In codifying legislative acts that have been amended frequently the EU is seeking to both simplify and clarify EU legislation.
The new Directive supersedes the various acts incorporated in it. It fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together, with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 16 January 2007.