The fight against IPR infringements outside the borders

"In 2004, the European Commission adopted a Strategy for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in Third Countries [hier], aiming to reduce the level of IPR infringements beyond EU borders, in particular in countries where it has reached worrying proportions and is seriously harming EU right holders.

The replies to the questions below will be taken into consideration in order to allow DG TRADE to review its priorities in that area. In particular, combined with other sources of input, it will enable the Commission to update its list of "priority countries" (cf. "IPR Enforcement Report 2009" [hier]).

Since the purpose of this exercise is to focus on the fight against IPR infringements outside the borders of the European Union, this survey focuses on those non-EU countries which are the most relevant to the EU from a trade policy perspective (in particular, least-developed countries are not covered). Respondents should reply to one questionnaire per country. Replies can be provided for as many countries as deemed necessary, and will not be published individually.

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