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31.03.2016

The 7th session of the Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property

Page ContentOn March 31, Bishkek (the Kyrgyz Republic) will host the seventh session of the Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property of the Eurasian Economic Commission chaired by the Minister in charge of Economy and Financial Policy of the EEC Timur Suleymenov.  The session participants will discuss the work conducted on the Draft Treaty on Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin of Goods of the Eurasian Economic Union (the EAEU), the Draft Agreement on the Procedure for Management of Copyrights and Allied Rights on a Collective Basis.  Representatives of the Member States will provide information on the work for conducting internal procedures on the Draft Protocol on Amendments to the Agreement on the Single Customs Register of Intellectual Property Assets of the Customs Union dated May 21, 2010, as well as internal procedures required for the entry into force of the Treaty on Coordinated Actions in Protection of Intellectual Property Rights. In addition, the session participants will consider the Draft Regulation of Interaction between the Competent Authorities and the Eurasian Economic Commission in the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, the Draft Statute on the International Form “Anti-Counterfeiting”. Information will be provided on the activities of the Working Group on elaboration of proposals concerning further application of the principle of exhaustion of exclusive rights to intellectual property assets. In addition, the following issues are on the agenda:  - fulfilment of obligations taken by the Republic of Armenia in the sphere of intellectual property in connection with the accession to the Treaty on the EAEU dated May 29, 2014;  - procedure for payment of royalties for performance of works in the production and distribution of compulsory public package of television programs;  - necessity for creating mechanisms of coordination in the sphere of combating distribution of counterfeit and illegal products on the markets of the EAEU Member States;  - establishment of an expert group at the Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property under the EEC Board.