In March 2018, the EU project ”Support to Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights” organised two training seminars for approximately 60 police officers and prosecutors.

During the seminars, the Project experts highlighted the importance of intellectual property and the dangers of counterfeiting and piracy to society. In addition, the experts shared best practice examples on how to investigate intellectual property crime.

Furthermore, Florin Alexandru and Monica Pop, experts on intellectual property and cybercrime, presented case studies on hardware, software and services needed to start an intellectual property infringement investigation. They also covered digital evidence, examples of pirate software and how to seize a domain name.

The seminar participants included representatives from Police Headquarters, the Cyber Security Centre within the National Investigation Inspectorate, the Prosecutor’s Office, Office for Combating Organized Crime and the State Agency on Intellectual Property (AGEPI).

Since the Project was initiated in November 2016, the international expert team has organised approximately 50 workshops, trainings and seminars on intellectual property rights for state institutions and target groups. In addition, they have supported a social campaign for pupils and students in educational institutions from all over the country.

The technical assistance project ”Intellectual Property Rights Support” in the Republic of Moldova is funded by the European Union and implemented by Consortium of Archidata LLC (Italy), European Profiles S.C. (Greece) and Business and Strategies in Europe (Belgium). The project has a duration of two years and ends in November 2018.