Memorandum of Understanding on the sale of counterfeit goods over the Internet Cover Image

Меморандум о разумевању о продаји фалсификоване робе преко интернета
Memorandum of Understanding on the sale of counterfeit goods over the Internet

Author(s): Sanja Jelisavac Trošić, Ana Jović-Lazić
Subject(s): EU-Legislation
Published by: Институт за међународну политику и привреду
Keywords: Memorandum;sale;Internet;Serbia;EU;counterfeit goods

Summary/Abstract: Since the Internet is very dynamic offenders constantly find a new ways to sell counterfeit goods, so it’s very difficult for the legislator to regulate all this. This is why the European Union has come to an agreement between the responsible parties on the Internet and owners of intellectual property rights, under the auspices of the European Commission and as a result has developed a Memorandum of Understanding on the Sale of Counterfeit Goods via the Internet. The Memorandum was drawn up with the aim to establish rules to combat the sale of counterfeit goods over the Internet. The cooperation of all participants in online shopping in the cases of report counterfeit goods is the most efficient way to withdraw it from the market and minimize the damage. This Memorandum promote cooperation between all participants in the sale and purchase via the Internet, in order to prevent forgery and sale and provide concrete measures, procedures and preventive procedures to take it to the best and most efficient way to solve and prevent such occurrences in the future. In Serbia there is ongoing process of transferring European achievements in the legal system, especially in the course of harmonization of legal provisions in the field of the Internet.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 51
  • Page Range: 206-217
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian