An overview of the provisions concerned would read as follows: a. Wetboek van Strafrecht (Criminal Code) Article 337: 1. A person who imports into the Netherlands (without the manifest intention to re-export), sells, offers for sale, delivers, distributes or stocks for sale or distribution: (a) any false, falsified or illegally manufactured trademark; (b)any goods which falsely bear, on themselves or on their packaging, the business name of another person; (c)or the trademark to which another person is entitled, or a false indication of origin in the form of the name of a specified place together with the name of a fictitious person; (d)or which are contained in packaging bearing such name or mark or a name or mark closely resembling them, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine of the fifth category (DFL 100,000). 2. If the felony mentioned in the first paragraph causes a general danger for persons or goods, the person found guilty is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years or a fine of the fifth category (DFL 100,000). b. Auteurswet 1912 (Copyright Act 1912) Article 31: a person who, by intent, violates another person's copyright shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine of the fourth category (DFL 25,000). Article 31a: a person who, by intent, publicly offers for distribution, or stocks for multiplication or distribution, or stocks for importation into the Netherlands or stocks for motives of gain any good that contains a violation of another person's copyright, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine of the fourth category (DFL 25,000). Article 31b: a person who commits the felonies referred to in Articles 31 and 31a Auteurswet for a living or as a business, is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years or a fine of the fifth category (DFL 100,000). Article 32: a person who publicly offers for distribution, or stocks for multiplication or distribution, or stocks for importation into the Netherlands, or stocks from motives of gain a good of which he can reasonable know that it contains a violation of another person's copyright, shall be liable to a fine of the third category (DFL 10,000). Article 32a: a person who, by intent, publicly offers for distribution, or stocks for multiplication or distribution, or stocks for importation into the Netherlands, or stocks from motives of gain, any objects exclusively destined to remove or evade a technical protection of a computer programme without permission of the maker or a licensed person, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine of the fourth category (DFL 25,000). Article 34: 1. A person who, without authorization and by intent, changes the name of any work of literature, science or art protected by copyright, the name or designation of its author, or any other aspect regarding such work in a way that this could cause damage to the honour or reputation of the author or his value in this quality, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine of the fourth category (DFL 25,000). c. Wet op de naburige rechten (Act on Neighbouring Rights) Article 21: a person who, by intent, violates the rights referred to in Articles 2, 6, 7a and 8 Wet op de naburige rechten (WNR) shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine of the fourth category (DFL 25,000). Article 22: a person who, by intent, broadcasts, re-broadcasts or otherwise publishes, or publicly offers for distribution, or stocks for reproduction or distribution, or stocks for importation into the Netherlands, or stocks from motives of gain a registration or reproduction thereof of which he knows that it violates the rights referred to in Articles 2, 6, 7a and 8 WNR, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine of the fourth category (DFL 25,000). Article 23: a person who commits the felonies referred to in Articles 21 and 22 WNR for a living or as a business, is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years or a fine of the fifth category (DFL 100,000). Article 24: a person who broadcasts, re-broadcasts or otherwise publishes, or publicly offers for distribution, or stocks for reproduction or distribution, or stocks for importation into the Netherlands or stocks from motives of gain, a registration or reproduction thereof of which he can reasonably know that it contains a violation of the rights referred to in Articles 2, 6, 7a and 8 WNR, shall be liable to a fine of the third category (DFL 10,000). Article 25: a person who, without authorization and by intent, changes the name of any performance, the name or designation of its performer, or any other aspect regarding such performance which could cause damage to the honour or reputation of the author or his value in this quality, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine of the fourth category (DFL 25,000). d. Rijksoctrooiwet 1995 (Patent Act) Article 79: 1. A person who, by intent, violates the right of a patentee by one of the activities referred to in Article 53, paragraph 1 Patent Act, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine of the fourth category (DFL 25,000). 2. A person who commits the crime referred to in the preceding paragraph for a living or as a business, is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years or a fine of the fifth category (DFL 100,000). 3. In case of a conviction, a judge may decide the verdict to be published. 4. In case objects have been confiscated, the patentee may demand that these objects be issued to him, under the condition that he applies to the clerk within a month after the judgement has come into force. By this issue, the property of the objects is transferred to the patentee. The judge may bind the issue of the object to the condition that a compensation be paid by the patentee to the State. 5. The offenses referred to in this Article are felonies. In the first instance, these felonies are judged exclusively by the District Court in The Hague.