Customs officials from Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbian and Montenegro, and UNMIK/Kosov (as observers) attended the fifth in a series of CLDP customs workshops desigend to achieve enhanced communication, cooperation, and coordination amongst...

CLDP conducted a program for Ukrainian intellectual property officials. The program, entitled "U.S. Consultations on Intellectual Property Appellate Proceedings: Ukraine State Department of Intellectual Property (SDIP)" sought to acquaint Ukrainian intellectual property officials with the...

CLDP advocated and sponsored the attendance of Moldova’s Trade Working Group (TWG) representatives to the London SPTWG meeting. The meeting discussed and determined the method of a single Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that the TWG will recommend to the Stability Pact Trade Ministers. It is hoped that...

CLDP has established a series of workshops for the Stability Pact countries, in order to enhance their understanding and implementation of the principles and measures of the SPS Agreement, and improve their coordination of implementation procedures, as well as responses to common threats.

CLDP continued to provide ongoing assistance to the Stability Pact Trade Working Group (SPTWG) by sponsoring the attendance of the Trade Working Group (TWG) representatives to a two-day meeting in Berlin, Germany.

During the week of May 29 - June 2, 2006, CLDP coordinated a three - day consultative visit to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economy in Vilnius, Lithuania for the eight-member Narrow Team.

CLDP convened a four-day meeting for the members of the Food Safety, Animal Health, and Plant Health working groups.

CLDP continued to provide ongoing assistance to the Stability Pact Trade Working Group (SPTWG) by sponsoring the attendance of the Trade Working Group (TWG) representatives to a two-day meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

An integral part of CLDP’s assistance is the reform of Ukraine’s intellectual property (IP) regime. At the request of the State Department of Intellectual Property of Ukraine (SDIP), CLDP, in coordination with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), held a U.S.-based consultation for SDIP...

Both Russia and Ukraine have recently enacted and put into force a Customs Code that requires protection of intellectual property as called for in the WTO TRIPS Agreement. Working with the Ukrainian and Russian Federal Customs Services, CLDP conducted a technical assistance program on the structure...