Counterfeiting: over 2,300 applications of the Made in Italy law in 9 months
This is what emerges from the Cnalcis Report, produced by the General Directorate for Industrial Property - Italian Patent and Trademark Office of Mimit, on the activities carried out to combat counterfeiting by the competent administrations.
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Nine months after the entry into force of the Law on 'Made in Italy', there are 2,357 concrete cases of application of the new anti-counterfeiting regulations. Specifically, approximately 100 cases were those in which the provision on the destruction of seized counterfeit goods was applied and more than 2,200 cases in which the new financial penalties were applied, which were increased compared to the past. With regard to enforcement actions, almost 9,000 seizure operations were carried out in the first half of 2024. In particular, more than 2,700 interventions were carried out by the Guardia di Finanza and more than 4,000 by the Customs and Monopolies Agency. The Criminal Analysis Service of the Ministry of the Interior detected over 400 seizures of counterfeit branded goods made by the State Police, Carabinieri and Local Police. This is what emerges from the Cnalcis Report, produced by the General Directorate for Industrial Property - Italian Patent and Trademark Office of Mimit, on the activities carried out to combat counterfeiting by the competent administrations.
Bear: tightening the grip
.The data were presented at the launch of the ninth Anti-Counterfeiting Week 2024. "With the new legislation we are tightening our grip on the serious phenomenon of counterfeiting. We are on the right track but we must not give up. In fact, the risks are growing with the spread of new technologies and e-commerce, which is why we are paying the utmost attention to the protection of Made in Italy, a priority of our government,' stressed Minister Urso.
Extended sanctions
.Measures were introduced in the law to protect Italian brands and excellence, by strengthening sanctions and expanding the tools available to the competent authorities.
Most interventions in the agri-food and health sectors
At a sectoral level, the report continues, agri-foodstuffs was affected by about 300 interventions by the Masaf-Icqrf and 35 by the Carabinieri (Command for the Protection of Agri-foodstuffs), 26 of which related to protected PDO and PGI trademarks, 7 for plant patents and 2 related to Made in Italy. Health protection saw, on the part of the Carabinieri - Nas, almost 200 blackouts of websites selling fake health products. Finally, 1,200 operations were carried out by the Carabinieri for the protection of cultural heritage.
