11. Notes in relation to declarations of Members' financial interests that in compliance with the ECA's Code of Conduct, ECA Members communicate a declaration of their financial interests and other assets (including shares, convertible bonds and investment certificates as well as land and real estate, together with their spouses' professional activities) to the President of the ECA, who keeps them under confidential custody, and that these declarations are not published;

15. Notes in relation to declarations of Members' financial interests that in compliance with the ECA's Code of Conduct, ECA Members communicate a declaration of their financial interests and other assets (including shares, convertible bonds and investment certificates, as well as land and real property, together with their spouses' professional activities) to the President of the ECA, who keeps them under confidential custody, and that these declarations are not published;

15. Notes in relation to declarations of Members' financial interests that in compliance with the ECA's Code of Conduct, Members of the ECA communicate a declaration of their financial interests and other assets (including shares, convertible bonds and investment certificates, as well as land and real property, together with their spouses' professional activities) to the President of the ECA, who keeps them under confidential custody, and that these declarations are not published;

3. Where either ownership of the copyright or related rights in question, or the existence of such copyright or related rights, is reasonably disputed, or where the applicant provides evidence of the existence and ownership of the copyright or related rights in question, such evidence and a written statement to this effect may be issued, and such statement shall be deemed to have legal force unless evidence is produced to the contrary.

3. With a view to establishing whether an intellectual property right has been infringed under national law, and in accordance with national provisions on the protection of personal data, commercial and industrial secrecy and professional and administrative confidentiality, the customs office or department which processed the application shall inform the right-holder, at his request and if known, of the names and addresses of the consignee, the consignor, the declarant or the holder of the goods and the origin and provenance of goods suspected of infringing an intellectual property right.

During the long series of negotiations within the WTO which led to the Doha Declaration on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, the EU fought to ensure that the protection of intellectual property be used to benefit public health.