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World Customs Organization (WCO)

1  INTRODUCTION

1.1  Overview of World Customs Organization (WCO) activities and tools of relevance to the TRIPS Agreement

  1. The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Health and Safety Programme of the World Customs Organization (WCO) maintains its resolve to protect consumer health and safety, and continues to combat counterfeiting and piracy through a variety of activities described in the following paragraphs. The WCO experience in this field is in line with the other international organizations working in the field of IPR enforcement. There seems to be a shift of the modus operandi towards the use of small consignments thus reducing the numbers of large seizures, but there does not seem to be any significant fall in the number of counterfeits traded globally. The WCO's main activity is to raise awareness about customs work in this area either towards other international organizations or by promoting capacity building activities for our member administrations. The capacity building consists of two factors; training through workshops and education and training through operational activities. A list of the WCO activities is attached in the Annex.

1.2  Operations

  1. The WCO organizes simultaneous enforcement activities with multiple customs administrations. These operations are aimed at knowing the scale of global counterfeiting whilst providing participating customs officers with hands-on experience. Operations, which quantify and qualify the impact of counterfeit activities, can also serve as an excellent opportunity to strengthen Customs' enforcement capacity. Participating members are able to learn about practical border enforcement measures through our Accredited Experts and gain hands-on experience using WCO tools, such as the IPR CENcomm Group.
  2. The IPR CENcomm Group is a secure communication tool used for data exchange on counterfeit medical supplies and fake medicines, enabling real time sharing of information between WCO members. WCO Operation STOP and STOP II respectively held in 2020 and 2021 to 2022, was for fighting against illicit medicines and medical products linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participating members used the IPR CENcomm Group to report their seizures and the WCO secretariat shared information alerts to members through the platform.

1.3  National/Regional seminars

  1. The WCO delivers extensive capacity building activities, mainly in the form of legislative training, document targeting training and product identification training, with private sector cooperation. But the organization also performs diagnostic missions. In the diagnostic missions, WCO experts visit the country and assess the Customs administrations capabilities in the domain of fighting counterfeits. The evaluation includes both the legal base and practical and procedural arrangements, and leads to a recommendation from WCO. The WCO conducted several training seminars/workshops for officers from a number of WCO member administrations in this reporting period.

1.4  Counterfeit and Piracy Group (CAP) meeting

  1. The annual WCO Counterfeiting and Piracy (CAP) Group meeting provides a forum for customs and related law enforcement agencies to exchange information, experiences and best practices on combating counterfeiting and piracy. Members explored the challenges posed by the internet and cyber investigations, e-commerce and small consignments but also food and plant varieties were discussed. During this meeting, members also shared their experiences and exchanged practices on fighting counterfeits.

1.5  E-learning module (CLiCK)

  1. By using the WCO's internet-based e-learning module 'CLiCK', customs officers can acquire practical knowledge on border enforcement related to IPR. They can train themselves on intellectual property (IP) agreements, such as the TRIPS Agreement, and on practical, risk-based document targeting.
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# Titre du programme ou de l'activité Date de début Membres ou observateurs bénéficiares  
1 National Workshop on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy 28/03/2022 Thailand
2 National Workshop on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy 11/04/2022 Gabon
3 National Workshop on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy 16/05/2022 Cambodia
4 National Workshop on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy 13/07/2022
5 WCO IPR Diagnostic Mission for the Kazakhstan State Revenue Committee 04/04/2022 Kazakhstan
6 WCO Builds IPR Enforcement Capacity for Customs Administrations in the Balkan Region 02/03/2022 North Macedonia
7 IPR Workshop for Customs Administrations in the Latin America, Central America and Caribbean Region Health and Safety Programme in Panama 01/06/2022 Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Mexico; Panama; Peru
8 IPR Accreditation Workshop Organized for the WCO West and Central Africa region 24/01/2022 Benin; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Côte d'Ivoire; Gabon; Guinea; Mali; Togo
9 IPR Accreditation Workshop Organized for Spanish Speakers 07/02/2022 Argentina; Belize; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Mexico; Nicaragua; Peru; United States of America
10 National Workshop on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy 06/06/2021 Mozambique
11 National Workshop on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy 29/06/2022 Philippines
12 National Workshop on Combating Counterfeiting and piracy 04/08/2021 Sri Lanka
13 National Workshop on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy 21/02/2022