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Meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Justice
October 2, 2018

Meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Justice

AmCham representatives met on Tuesday, October 2, 2018, with representatives of the Ministry of Justice, including Mr. Juro Martinović, State Secretary and Ms. Vedrana Šimundža Nikolić, Assistant Minister.

The topic of the meeting was AmCham’s position paper "Proposal for Amendments to the Criminal Code”.

The biggest challenge for intellectual property right holders in Croatia, from AmCham’s point of view, lies in strengthening the enforcement of legislation that prescribes intellectual property rights and the lack of specialized courts to deal with the above mentioned procedures. In this position paper AmCham provides proposals for specific amendments to the current Criminal Code that would enable precise determination of damage caused and material gain realized in cases of infringements of intellectual property rights that belong to the domain of criminal law. Furthermore, AmCham proposes reducing the threshold for the criminal prosecution of infringements of intellectual property rights (the category of “considerable damage” caused in accordance with the Criminal Code) from HRK 60,000 to HRK 30,000, with the aim of active discouragement of this type of behavior.

These recommendations served as a basis for discussion and exchange of ideas between representatives of AmCham and the Ministry, on ways of improving efficiency of the IPR protection system in Croatia.

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