EURO 2008 INFO

Companies used the logo of the Euro without the respective official license.

The Union of European football association (Uefa) has acted to 430 cases of companies or manufacturers in several parts of the world, using logos or words recorded by the Euro-2008 (7-29 June) with no official license.

Each week have uncovered an average of five or six new cases, said the Uefa, which hosts the competition.

On five occasions, the conflict ended before the Swiss courts, Austrians and Germans and won the Uefa recognition of the irregularity, including one case of unauthorized use of the official mascots, Trix and Flix.

Most of the companies identified by the Uefa have stopped their illegal activities.

According to an article in the specialist Austrian daily 'Wiener Wirtschaft', Uefa has monitored the use of 'Euro 2008', 'EM 2008', 'Uefa MS 2008', 'Uefa European Football Championship', 'Austria / Switzerland 2008', ' Oesterreich / Schweiz 2008 ',' Austria / Switzerland 2008 ',' Trix 'and' Flix '.

The Uefa insisted that it is forbidden to unauthorized power trading companies to advertise or associating a product to the Euro-2008.