(24) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission for the purposes of adopting implementing acts concerning detailed rules on the visibility of commercial brands during product demonstrations or tastings and on information and promotion material and on the visibility of the origin of products on information and promotion material; the annual work programmes , the selection of simple programmes , deta ...[+++]iled rules under which a proposing organisation may be authorised to implement certain parts of a simple programme itself, the arrangements for the implementation, monitoring and control of simple programmes; the rules concerning the conclusion of contracts for the implementation of simple programmes selected in accordance with this Regulation; the common impact assessment framework for programmes as well as a system of indicators .

This Directive shall apply to every trade mark in respect of goods or services which is the subject of registration or of an application in a Member State for registration as an individual trade mark, a collective mark or a guarantee or certification mark, or which is the subject of a registration or an application for registration in the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property or of an international registration having effect in a Member State.

M. whereas the newly adopted US ‘Conflict Minerals’ Law is an attempt to prevent American consumers from purchasing cell phones, computers and other high tech technologies that are manufactured by US companies using minerals bought from rebel-controlled mines; whereas the law also calls on US firms, including brand name consumer manufacturers of electronic and mineral processors and jewellers, to report annually to the Securities Exchange Commission if their products use any gold, tantalum, coltan or cassiterite that was either directly imported from the Democratic Republic of Congo or smuggled via the nine neighbouring countries,

22. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to defend consumer rights and expectations by strict enforcement of product safety laws and, particularly, toy safety laws, and to step up efforts to improve market surveillance, national inspections and bans on dangerous products of unidentified source, and to prevent noncompliant or unsafe products from being placed on the market or to ensure that they are withdrawn or recalled fr ...[+++]om the market, including when there is evidence of deceptive behaviour and/or use of fraudulent or misleading origin markings by foreign producers and importers;

Also with regard to industrial property rights, the Croatian legal framework was subject to a comprehensive review in 2003 with the adoption of a new Patent Act, a new Act on Industrial Design, a new Trademark Act, a new Act on Geographical Indications and Designations of Origin of Products and Services and a new Act on the Protection of Topographies of Semiconductor Products.

This Directive shall apply to every trade mark in respect of goods or services which is the subject of registration or of an application in a Member State for registration as an individual trade mark, a collective mark or a guarantee or certification mark, or which is the subject of a registration or an application for registration in the Benelux Trade Mark Office or of an international registration having effect in a Member State.