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Republika Slovenija Ministrstvo za finance CARINSKA UPRAVA REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE

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Republika SlovenijaMinistrstvo za finance

CARINSKA UPRAVA REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE

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Republika SlovenijaMinistrstvo za finance

CARINSKA UPRAVA REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE

Customs Administration RS: Vojko OtovicHead of section of prohibitions and restrictions (email: [email protected])

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Customs responsibility

• protection and facilitation of the international and national trade

• preventing illegal traffic and fight against counterfeit goods, drugs, cigarettes…

• preventing the entry of hazardous goods • ensuring the safety and security of citizens• fight against fraud, terrorism and organised crime

(in collaboration with other law enforcement agencies)

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Prohibitions and restrictions

Protection of:– public policy and international security – health and life of humans– environment – fauna and flora– industrial and commercial property– national treasures possessing artistic, historic or

archaeological value

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Activities of customs in the protection of IPR

1. Legislation2. Applications3. Cooperation4. Public awareness5. Statistics

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1. Legislation • Council Regulation (EC) 1383/2003

−concerning customs action against goods suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights and the measures to be taken against goods found to have infringed such rights

• Commission Regulation (ES) 1891/2004 and 1172/2007–provisions for the implementation

of Reg. 1383/2003

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Act Implementing the Customs Reg. of EU• Provisions on customs IPR measures

– request for action, a decision on the request and the statement by the right holders

– sampling because of suspected IPR violations– judicial protection – destruction of goods under customs control– arrangement of destruction– security instead of detention of the goods– storage of seized goods– treatment of seized goods– costs in relation to goods

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Temporarily detained goods by customs• on request of the right-holder

– if the application is lodge– Simplified procedure (right-holder's agreement-

destruction under customs control)

• ex officio

Costs relating the goods• the right-holder bear all costs

Destruction of the goods• at the expense and under the responsibility of the

right holder

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2. Lodging of applications • National applications

– according to Article 5(1) of the basic Regulation the applicant applies for action by the customs authorities of that Member State in which the application for action is lodged.

– This application can be used for all type of intellectual property rights.

• Community applications– With this application the applicant requests assistance by

the customs authorities of the Member State in which it is lodged and assistance by the customs authorities of one or more other Member States.

– The advantage for right holders is that the decision taken in the Member State in which the application is lodged, has the same legal effects in all other requested Member States.

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Community applications:

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200620072008200920101/4 2011

163 241 314 395 600 200

2006 2007 2008 2009 20101/4

2011

National applications: 74/2010

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3. Cooperation• National cooperation

– Informal working group within customs administration

– Working group between all enforcement bodies:• Ministry of Economy - Slovenian Intellectual Property

Office, Market Inspectorate • Customs Administration of the Republic of Slovenia• Ministry of Interior • Ministry of Justice

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• International cooperation

– EC/CCC/Counterfeit Section– EU action plan – ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) – Action plan EU/China– Joint customs cooperation– WCO– Interpol– Europol

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• Customs/business partnership

– Memorandum of understandings– Specific action with sensitive business sectors– Information exchange between privat sector and

customs– Training material

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Raising awareness both –business and customs • campaigns (leaflets,

posters…) at major border points

• exhibitions, information to consumers (publication of statistic, press releases, open days…)

4. Publicity (public awareness)

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Exhibitions and open days Visit at school…

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5. Statistic• Most counterfeit goods are discovered at the Port of Koper Office. • The number of seizures at the Ljubljana Post Office increased significantly;

most cases involved counterfeit medicines. • For the most part, the consignments with counterfeits come from India

(counterfeit medicines), Hong Kong (counterfeit watches), and from China (counterfeit sports articles, clothes, technical products)…

2008 (436 cases, 179955 pieces)

2009 (359 cases, 1120178 pieces)

2010 (602 cases, 1589227 pieces)

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Cases:

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Simon Golub Head of Financial Crime and Money Laundering Section Senior Criminal Police Inspector

General Police Directorate Criminal Police Directorate Stefanova ulica 2, 1501 Ljubljana Phone: 01 / 428 50 79 Fax: 01 / 428 42 06 Email: [email protected]

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THE POLICE • The police performs its tasks at three levels: the state, the

regional and the local levels. Organisationally, it is composed of General Police Directorate, Police Directorates (8) and police stations. The police headquarters are in Ljubljana.

• Within the General Police Directorate (national level) the Financial Crime Section is responsible for preventing, discovering and inspecting penal acts in the field of intellectual property (national / international cooperation, strategic tasks etc), while criminal investigations are carried out manly by Financial Crime Units within the Police Directorates (regional level).

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Criminal Offence

IPR offences are in the Criminal Code defined in: 1. Chapter Sixteen - CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST HUMAN

RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES • Violation of Moral Copyright (Article 147) • Violation of Material Copyright (Article 148) • Violation of Copyright and Related Rights (Article 149) 2. Chapter Twenty-Four - CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST THE

ECONOMY • Unauthorised Use of Another’s Mark or Model (Art. 233)• Unauthorised Use of Another’s Patent or Topography (Article

234)

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Criminal Offence - Legal Persons

Liability of Legal Persons for Criminal Offences Act

• “A legal person shall be liable for a criminal offence committed by the perpetrator in the name of, on behalf of or in favour of the legal person…if it has at is disposal unlawfully obtained property benefit or uses objects obtained through a criminal offence…”;

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CRIMINAL OFFENCE 20092010

Violation of Moral Copyright 3 1 Violation of Material Copyright 5 5 Violation of Copyright and Related Rights 0 0 Unauthorised Use of Another’s Mark or Model 4 8 Unauthorised Use of Another’s Patent or Topography 4 0

TOGETHER 16 14

In 2010 The Police filed criminal reports against 10 natural and 4 legal persons.

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Andrejka Grlić Chief Market Inspector

Republic of SloveniaMinistry of the economyMarket inspectorate of republic of Slovenia

Phone: 01/ 280-8700 Email: [email protected]

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Organization, Powers and Activities of Market Inspectorate of

Republic of Slovenia

• 113 market inspectors are responsible for

• 42 national acts on different areaswith more than

• 80 executive regulationsand

• several European Regulations

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Ministrstvo za gospodarstvo TRŽNI INŠPEKTORAT RS

Območne enote

Sedež inšpektorata

Območna enota Celje (Mozirje, Šmarje pri Jelšah)

Območna enota Dravograd (Velenje)

Območna enota Idrija

Območna enota Kamnik (Domžale)

Območna enota Kočevje

Območna enota Koper

Območna enota Kranj (Radovljica)

Območna enota Krško

Območna enota Ljubljana (Trbovlje)

Območna enota Maribor (Ormož, Ptuj, Slovenska Bistrica)

Območna enota Murska Sobota (Lendava, Ljutomer)

Območna enota Nova Gorica

Območna enota Novo mesto

Območna enota Postojna

Sektor za splošni nadzor

Sektor za tehnični nadzor

Služba za finance in organizacijo

Služba za kadre in informatiko

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Scope of Activity (cont.)

• consumer protection• product safety• trade• craft• catering and tourism• moonlighting unfair competition protection of copyrights and industrial property rights unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices• credit agreements for consumers• sale of real estate• …

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Scope of Activity (cont.)

New Approach Directives:

• Low voltage equipment (LVD)• Safety of machinery (MD)• Personal protective equipment (PPE)• Gas appliances (GAD)• Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)• Recreational crafts (RCD)• Radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment (R&TTE) • Energy labelling of household electric refrigerators, freezers, and

combinations thereof • Construction products (CPD)• General product safety (GPSD)

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Industrial Property Act Official Gazette RS, no. 51/2006

Judicial protection

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Unfair Commercial Practices DirectiveDirective 2005/29/EC

• Directive directly protects consumer economic interests from unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices. Thereby, it also indirectly protects legitimate businesses from their competitors who do not play by the rules in this Directive and thus guarantees fair competition in fields coordinated by it.

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Misleading actions

• A commercial practice shall be regarded as misleading if it contains false information and is therefore untruthful or in any way, including overall presentation, deceives or is likely to deceive the average consumer, even if the information is factually correct, in relation to one or more of the following elements, and in either case causes or is likely to cause him to take a transactional decision that he would not have taken otherwise the main characteristics of the product :…..

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Misleading actions

• A commercial practice shall be regarded as misleading if it contains false information and is therefore untruthful or in any way, including overall presentation, deceives or is likely to deceive the average consumer, even if the information is factually correct, in relation to one or more of the following elements, and in either case causes or is likely to cause him to take a transactional decision that he would not have taken otherwise the main characteristics of the product :…..

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(cont.)

• A commercial practice shall also be regarded as misleading if, in its factual context, taking account of all its features and circumstances, it causes or is likely to cause the average consumer to take a transactional decision that he would not have taken otherwise,

and it involves: any marketing of a product, including comparative advertising,

which creates confusion with any products, trade marks, trade names or other distinguishing marks of a competitor;

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The Law on Copyright and Related Rights Official Gazette RS, no. 16/2007, 68/2008

Judicial protection • The person whose rights may demand the protection of his rights and claim restitution from the infringer

according to the rules on damages. Competence of the Market Inspection• seize the goods which were used or intended for the

commission of a misdemeanor, or were created by such misdemeanor, and

• order to remedy the irregularity within the prescribed time limit

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• The specially qualified group of market inspectors carried out the controls given the special nature of inspection in respect of computer programs. In accordance with the provisions of the Inspection Act an inspector has the right to conduct inspection of the economic entity on the basis of the law (without special permission of the court) and without prior notice. Market Inspectorate control subjects selected randomly or based on applications received.

• Randomly selected subjects are chosen individually or by the industries in which they operate.

• In previous years selected subjects were chosen from lawyers, media organizations (radio and TV organizations, newspapers, magazines...), architects and others.

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• In the years from 2008 to 2010 Market Inspectorate conducted 417 inspections in which the 2284 computers were checked. On the computers 13124 computer programs that user’s use at their work was examined with random selection method. Of all the programs examined individual subjects did not demonstrate legitimate use for 1626 (12.4%) programs. From the 417 examined subjects in 252 subjects (60.4%) was identified at least one illegal use of a computer program.

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Aktion 2008 2009 2010 SUM

Number of conducted inspections 128 110 179 417

Number of checked computers 774 768 742 2284

Number of checked computer‘s programs

4631 4749 3744 13124

Number of illegal programs 617 588 421 1626

Precentage of illegal programs 13,3% 12,4% 11,2% 12,4%

Number of subjects in the offense 90 70 92 252

Precentage of subjects in the offense

70,3% 63,6% 51,4% 60,4%

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Thank you for your attention!

Customs Administration RS: Vojko OtovicHead of section of prohibitions and restrictionsemail:[email protected]

Simon Golub Head of Financial Crime and Money Launderingemail: [email protected]

Andrejka Grlić Chief Market Inspectoremail:[email protected]