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Implementation of EU standards in field of intellectual property protection

Belgrade, 16 March 2011

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic said today that Serbia needs to establish a unified security system in which the private sector will be equal to the Serbian police and security services, but added that we need to adopt a clear legal framework that will specify the responsibilities.

Author: Tanjug

In a business luncheon organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Serbia (AmCham) Dacic announced a public debate on the draft law on private security and detective work and expressed the hope that these documents will soon be sent to the regular procedure.

The interest of the police is to get rid of all unnecessary work that is not strictly within the jurisdiction of the Ministry, said the Minister, giving a positive example of municipal police.

As for the fight against abuse of the use of intellectual property rights, he stated that the aim of the Serbian government in this field is to apply all existing standards that are applied in the EU and the modern world.

Serbia has in the past two years achieved some results, although they still cannot be accurately presented because there is no clear statistics.

Stating an example of fight against piracy, he said that the people who uploaded the domestic film "Montevideo, God Bless You" on the Internet have been arrested.

Dacic confirmed that Serbia would fulfill all of its obligations in this area, undertaken within the stabilisation and association process, and expressed satisfaction that Serbia is not on the US list of countries where the situation regarding the respect for intellectual property is worrying.

Serbia has not seen organised violation of intellectual property rights, because our country is a small market, however it is interesting as a transit route, he said.

The Deputy Prime Minister said that the penalty policy for people who violate intellectual property rights is inadequate because the violators are usually sentenced to probation.