Iceland continues to be largely aligned and applies a substantial part of the acquis in the fields covered by the EEA such as free movement of goods, freedom of movement of workers, right of establishment and freedom to provide services, free movement of capital, public procurement, company law, intellectual property law, competition, financial services and information society and media.

7. Gives priority to the effective enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR); calls for the conclusion of a free trade agreement (FTA) of which scientific and technical cooperation and intellectual property are essential elements;

18. Takes note of the Commissions' view that the EU must acquire a cost-effective, legally watertight and user-friendly system of intellectual property protection so as to attract technologically advanced companies; considers that the protection of intellectual property must not interfere with open access to public goods and public knowledge; urges the Commission to promote a socially inclusive knowledge-based society by supporting, for example, free and open source software and licensing concepts like the General Public License (GPL) and the Public Documentation Licence (PDL);

18. Takes note of the Commissions' view that the EU must acquire a cost-effective, legally watertight and user-friendly system of intellectual property protection so as to attract technologically advanced companies; considers that the protection of intellectual property must not interfere with open access to public goods and public knowledge; urges the Commission to promote a socially inclusive knowledge based society by supporting, for example, free and open source software and licensing concepts like GPL and PDL;

120 | ( General context So as to meet the objectives set in the White Paper, and for reasons of efficiency in the areas of food safety, human health protection and the free movement of the products concerned, the Commission has developed, in parallel, three other proposals for Regulations that make the placing on the Community market of these substances subject to compliance with harmonised criteria and the granting of authorisation: 1. Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives; 2. Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on food enzymes; 3. Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on flavourings a ...[+++]nd certain food ingredients with flavouring properties for use in and on foods. The new regulatory framework proposed for the substances in question must be completed by the establishment of a common authorisation procedure, insofar as the existence of different national authorisation procedures could potentially lead to different results and, in consequence, hinder the free movement of the substances concerned and distort free competition. |

While the gradual harmonisation of substantive law on intellectual property rights has promoted the free movement of goods between European Union (EU) countries and made the rules applicable more transparent, the means of enforcing intellectual property rights have not been harmonised at all until now.