CLDP is pleased to announce the successfuladoption of a Ukrainianlaw establishing deterrent level penalties for the production and distribution of counterfeit medicines.

OnOctober 10-11, 2011 CLDPco-sponsered the National Seminar on the Revised WTOAgreement on Government Procurement in Kyiv, Ukraine. The seminar provided participants with information on the most complicated provisions of the revised WTO Government Procurement Agreement as well as the details of the...

As part of its continued collaboration with the State Customs Service of Ukraine, CLDP conducted the second of a series of workshops on specific issues and procedures in customs valuation on October 31-November 4, 2011 in Kyiv.

CLDPcontinues work on theDevelopment of a Judicial IP Benchbook in Sarajevo September 2011. Eight judges, both civil and criminal and representative of BiHs entities, spent the 3-day program working closely with Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Bernice Donald and Federal Judicial Center Director...

CLDP, in continued collaboration with the State Customs Service of Ukraine, conducted the firstin a series of workshops oncustoms valuation and classification. The program aimed to train a cadre of trainers and officials from the State Customs Service of Ukraine andworked to ensure that the customs...

As part of an ongoing program of judicial capacity building and IP enforcement for Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), a delegation of eight BiH judges improved the skills necessary to fairly, efficiently, and effectively adjudicate intellectual property civil and criminal infringement cases as a result of...

CLDP and USPTO, in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, held a three-day workshop, on May 18-20, to increase the understanding of Ukraine's officials, specifically its law enforcement and regulatory agencies, of the most effective methods and techniques to combat the trade in counterfeit...

An expert CLDP trade advisor conducted a workshop on various trade remedies available to Albania under the WTO system.

The program consisted of a four-day workshop for senior officials representing accreditation activities in the Stability Pact countries.

Two U.S. Customs officials conducted the training – a continuation of a program conducted in December, 2002, on the methodology of valuation procedures – for twenty Ukrainian customs officials having senior responsibility for valuation at their respective border entry points.