The European Court of Justice rules on the interpretation of Customs Regulations
21 March 2014February 6th, 2014, the EU Court of Justice delivered a judgement on the case C-98/13.
The Court has established that Customs Regulations should be interpreted as such: the owner of intellectual property rights over goods bought online by a person residing in a member State through a site situated in a different State enjoys, from the moment in which said goods are brought onto the territory of the aforementioned member State, the protection guaranteed by Customs Regulations on the sole basis that the goods were purchased.
It is not therefore necessary for the goods to have been subject, before the purchase, to an offer or advertising specifically intended for customers of said State.
