CLDP, alongside USG partners including the Department of Justice Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance, and Training (OPDAT) and the Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Investigations Office (HSI), will host a workshop on intellectual property in Kosovo.  The...

From November 11-12, 2024, CLDP hosted a “train the trainers” Customs Valuation and Tariff Classification workshop for 23 current Kosovo Customs officers. These officers will go on to train Kosovo Customs’ 50 new hires. The workshop featured two U.S. CBP Attorney Advisors and an expert from the...

From October 14-15, 2024, CLDP, in partnership with US interagency colleagues, the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade, the French Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry, and the OECD, hosted a high-level delegation of Kosovar government officials to discuss best practices in investment...

CLDP is hosting a Regional Western Balkans Judicial Capacity Building Workshop in Tivat, Montenegro focused on best practices in commercial dispute resolution, from both a litigation and mediation perspective. This workshop will feature a US federal judge, 2 Croatian judges, a Montenegrin judge, and...

CLDP hosted a Regional Western Balkans Customs Workshop in Zagreb, Croatia in partnership with the Croatian Customs Administration from September 11-13, 2024. Officials from Croatian Customs presented an overview of Croatian practices in post-clearance audit, digitization and IT, and NCTS. The...

From July 22-23, 2024, CLDP, together with ARKEP, the Kosovar Telecoms Regulator, held a Workshop on 5G Cybersecurity in the Telecommunications Sector.  The Workshop featured discussions on several risk areas associated with maintaining a modern and secure network, including: identifying and...

From May 12-16, CLDP sponsored the participation of a delegation of women leaders and entrepreneurs from the Western Balkans and Azerbaijan to form a women’s economic security working group and participate in the International Trade Administration’s Tradewinds Forum in Türkiye. The delegates...

CLDP, in coordination with U.S. Embassy Pristina, was delighted to facilitate the visit of Director General of Kosovo Customs Agron Llugaliu and his team to Paris, France to meet with French Customs officials and exchange information on best practices in customs procedures. Customs officials have...

From 16-18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) hosted a Workshop on Combatting Piracy and Counterfeiting in Kosovo. The program covered local and global trends in intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement and featured experts from the US, UK, EU...

From February 16-17, 2024, CLDP, in coordination with the University of Montenegro, will hold a two-day Pre-Moot competition to prepare law students for the 31^st Willem C. Vis Moot competition (Vis Moot) that will take place Vienna in March. There will be a total of 11 universities competing in the...