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From Copyright Act

The Gowers Final Report.

(The administrative, judicial and enforecement structures relating to IP is extensively dealt with in the Gowers Review.)

Recommendation 40: DTI should consult on measures to tighten regulation for occasional sales and markets by 2007.

Recommendation 41: The Home Office should recognise IP crime as an area for police action as a component of organised crime within the updated National Community Safety Plan.

Recommendation 42: Give Trading Standards the power to enforce copyright infringement by enacting section 107A of the CDPA.

Recommendation 44: The Patent Office should consult with the Judicial Studies Board to dtermine the extent to which the complexity of IP law may give rise to a training need for judges and magistrates and their legal advisers.

Recommendation 45: The establishment of a single EU Court to adjudicate cross-border disputes.

Recommendation 48: Introduce a clear split of responsibility between delivery and policy directorates.

Recommendation 52: Ensure under current arrangements in the Patents Office, there is a clear internal separation of responsibility between the granting of rights and disputes over their ownership or validity by clearly separating line management structures.