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"I should like, if I may, to concentrate in the short time allotted to me on one aspect of economic relations between the EU and China. Statistics show that mutual trade is growing sharply and flourishing. Indeed, the last 25 years has seen a 40-fold increase. The EU has become China’s biggest partner and, on the other side of that coin, China has become the Union’s second biggest partner. Nevertheless, alongside these positive developments, one cannot fail to notice a great many negative developments that are blocking further expansion of significant trade, including, first and foremost, the piracy and counterfeiting of European products and trade marks by Chinese manufacturers.
It is no secret that more than two thirds of fake goods intercepted on the European market come from China. I should therefore like to call on the Commission and the Council to address this problem at the forthcoming summit in Helsinki. China should be called upon to make substantial improvements in the protection of intellectual property rights and international inventions, to strengthen current legislation on the protection of intellectual property rights and of course to reinforce the activities of the country’s civil courts in solving cases of industrial piracy. The rules of the World Trade Organisation, to which China is a signatory, are after all binding in this area."@en1
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