CLDP, the Ukraine Customs Service, together with the US Customs and Border Patrol and the Ukrainian State Department of Intellectual Property (SDIP), conducted a three-day workshop in Kiev, Ukraine, that brought together the customs and other government authorities of Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia...

As part of an ongoing program of judicial capacity building and IP enforcement for Bosnia and Herzegovina, CLDP held a workshop in Sarajevo on Adjudication of Intellectual Property Criminal Infringement Cases.

CLDP, in close cooperation with Ukraines Customs Service and Ukraines private industry, held a two-day workshop on identification and interdiction of counterfeit and pirated products on February 22-23.

CLDP, in cooperation with US and Ukrainian partners, held a two-day workshop in Kyiv, April 5-6, 2011 on Opportunities and Challenges for Agricultural Biotechnology in Ukraine, April 5-6, 2011.

In recent years, CLDPs Southeast Europe Initiative program has assisted the countries of Southeast Europe, under the auspices of the Stability Pact, to develop a legal/business environment better suited to attract increased trade and investment. In addition to assistance with trade liberalization...

The establishment of the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990. As former Communist countries moved towards more democratic and free market principles, the U.S. Government recognized the opportunity to work with these transitioning countries to support their efforts for change. In 1992, CLDP was tasked with assisting countries in Central and...

CLDPs earliest programs involved working with countries in Central and Eastern Europe to help those countries transition to economically stable, market-based economies integrated with the rest of the world. Many of these countries have since tied themselves to the world economy by joining the WTO, the European Union, or both.