WCO- IPR WORKSHOP
ON COUNTERFEITING
AND BORDER MEASURES
Rome, 19÷20 October 2004
A practical training seminar for Customs
officers enforcing Intellectual Property
Rights
Fight Against Counterfeiting
- legislation:
new national and community measures
opeational instructions
- results
D.ssa Cinzia Bricca – Head of the Central Anti Fraud Service
Regulation (EC)1383/2003
Entered into force on July
st
1 ,
2004
Broadens the scope of the legislation
(art.2) in order to protect also the
rights related to:
a. plant variety
b. protected designation of origin,
and geographical indication
c. geographical designations
The new legislative measures
aim at preventing introduction,
release for free circulation,
export, re-export, entry into a
free zone or in a free
warehouse as well as for a
suspensive
procedure,
of
“counterfeit or pirated goods”
Defines the conditions of the intervention
of customs authorities that may suspend
the release of the goods or detain them for
the period necessary to ascertain that
goods are counterfeit or pirated
(art. 4 commi 54 e 55)
Financial Law 350/2003
To strengthen the fight against
counterfeiting, the national legislation
(financial law for year 2004), provides
for the establishment of a multi-media
databank for collection of characteristic
data idoneous for identification of
goods to be protected
art.4 comma 54. Per potenziare la lotta alla
contraffazione e per tutelare la specificità dei prodotti,
l’Agenzia delle dogane può sottoscrivere con gli
operatori, su loro richiesta, convenzioni per la raccolta
in una banca dati multimediale dei dati caratteristici
idonei a contraddistinguere i prodotti da tutelare, senza
oneri aggiuntivi a carico dello Stato. La raccolta dei dati
di cui al presente comma ed il relativo trattamento è
attività di rilevante interesse pubblico ai sensi della
normativa sulla protezione dei dati personali, essendo
diretta all’applicazione delle disposizioni la cui
esecuzione è affidata alle dogane
55. Con determinazione dirigenziale, adottata entro
sessanta giorni dalla data di entrata in vigore della
presente legge, sono stabilite le modalità tecniche di
attuazione delle disposizioni di cui al comma 54.
An administrative decision dated February
28th, 2004, establishes that the multimedia databank is placed at the Customs
Agency and is feeded with data contained
in the protection requests already
submitted by the holders of the
intellectual property rights.
Financial Law 350/2003
….Once fully running, the
databank will be feeded
with the protection
requests submitted
electronically through the
customs system E.D.I.
EDI
(Electronic Data
Interchange). In order to
make possible the
protection of the goods,
the right holders shall at
least provide their detailed
technical description and
the name and address of
a contact person.
(art. 4 comma 55)
(art. 4 comma 55)
Financial Law 350/2003
Minimum data required may be integrated with data on:
a)
b)
c)
Art. 4 comma 80. L’autorità
amministrativa, quando accerta, sia
all’atto
dell’importazione
o
esportazione
che
della
commercializzazione o distribuzione,
la violazione di un diritto di proprietà
intellettuale o industriale, può
disporre anche d’ufficio, previo
assenso dell’autorità giudiziaria e
facendone rapporto alla stessa, il
sequestro della merce contraffatta, e,
decorsi tre mesi, la distruzione, a
spese,
ove
possibile,
del
contravventore; è fatta salva la
conservazione di campioni da
utilizzare a fini giudiziari.
The production and movement of goods, more specifically:
name of the importer, exporter, holder of the goods;
place of manufacturing;
itinerary followed
packaging and transport modalities
arrival and departure dates
The value of the goods
The type of fraud, more specifically:
comparison of technical specifications of genuine and suspected goods
countries of manufacturing and itineraries followed by suspected goods
Art. 4, comma 80, of the Financial Law for year 2004, allows, subject to
prior authorisation of the judicial authority, the destruction of goods seized
by the customs for violation of an intellectual property right, after three
months from the seizure, provided that samples of the goods are collected
for judicial purpose.
UE seizures and items 1999÷2003
8.000
100000000
items
90000000
7.000
seizures
80000000
6.000
70000000
5.000
60000000
4.000
50000000
40000000
3.000
30000000
2.000
20000000
1.000
10000000
0
0
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Italian seizures/items 1999÷2003
300
40000000
35000000
items
250
seizures
30000000
200
25000000
150
20000000
15000000
100
10000000
50
5000000
0
0
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
International cooperation:
OMD/INTERPOL/WIPO/COMPANIES ASSOCIATION
JOINT INIZIATIVE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST
COUNTERFEITING
DYNAMIC PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE SECTORS
PLANNING OF PARTICIPATIONS IN ORDER TO
SUPPORT THE FIGHT TO THE COUNTERFEITING
Thanks for your attention ….
More infos:
http://www.agenziadogane.gov.it/italiano/falstaff/index.htm
AGENZIA DELLE DOGANE
UFFICIO ANTIFRODE CENTRALE
00143 ROMA, Via Mario Carucci,71 – Telefono +39 (0)6.5024.6135 – Fax +39 (0)6.5095.7300
e-mail: [email protected]
made by
Nicola Antonio Laurelli
[email protected]
10/2004