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On the May 20th, 2009 the seventh meeting of the Russia-EU IP Dialogue took place in the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent). Representatives of the European Commission DG Trade, the European Commission DG Internal Market and Services, Delegation of the European Commission to Russia, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Health and Social Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Rospatent and other federal executive authorities took part in the meeting.

Within the discussion of the legislative initiatives both sides considered the issues of amendments to the Part four of the Civil Code of Russian Federation, the Customs Code, the Law on Medicines and the process of adoption of Rospatent administrative regulations prepared within the administrative reform.

The EU side informed on the EU legislative initiatives, the experience of application of new EU Geographical Indications regulations, the EU initiatives on the improvement of enforcement practice in the sphere of IP (European Observatory on the problem of counterfeit products and piracy, initiatives on prevention of infringements in the Internet, E-YOU Guide) and also on the EU TEMPUS program.

Both sides exchanged the information on enforcement actions. The EU side took interest in actions “Net” and “Counterfeit” carried out by the Ministry of Interior.

The Russian side set a number of cases on violation of Russian producers’ rights in some EU countries and paid attention to the exclusion of similar cases in future.