The Copyright (EC Measures Relating to Pirated Goods and Abolition of Restrictions on the Import of Goods)
Regulations 1995, Nº 1445

Made
7th June 1995

Laid before Parliament
8th June 1995

Coming into force
1st July 1995


The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2]
in relation to the abolition of restrictions on the import or export of goods and in relation to measures relating to counterfeit and
pirated goods, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) and (4) of the said Act of 1972, and of all other enabling
powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Copyright (EC Measures Relating to Pirated Goods and Abolition of Restrictions
on the Import of Goods) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st July 1995.

Amendment of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
2.?(1) Section 111 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988[3] shall be amended as follows.

(2) After subsection (3) insert?
" (3A) The Commissioners may treat as prohibited goods only infringing copies of works which arrive in the United
Kingdom?
(a) from outside the European Economic Area, or
(b) from within that Area but not having been entered for free circulation.

(3B) This section does not apply to goods entered, or expected to be entered, for free circulation, export, re-export or
for a suspensive procedure in respect of which an application may be made under Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EC)
No. 3295/94[4] laying down measures to prohibit the release for free circulation, export, re-export or entry for a
suspensive procedure of counterfeit and pirated goods." .


(3) In subsection (4), for the words "is prohibited" substitute "subject to subsections (3A) and (3B), is prohibited".



Ian Taylor

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Trade and Technology,
Department of Trade and Industry

7th June 1995