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ORGANIZATIONIP/C/W/262/Add.3
18 September  2001
(01-4434)
Council for Trade-Related Aspects
of Intellectual Property RightsOriginal:  English
REVIEW OF LEGISLATION
Responses from Croatia to the questions posed by the United States
Addendum
By means of a communication from the Permanent Delegation of Croatia dated 17 September
2001, the Secretariat has received the following responses to the questions posed by the United States,
as circulated in document IP/C/W/268/Add.1.
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A. STATISTICAL QUESTIONS
1. Please provide statistical information related to civil copyright, trademark, geographical
indication, industrial design, patent, integrated-circuit layout design, and trade secret enforcement
for 2000, including the number of cases filed; injunctions issued; infringing products seized;infringing equipment seized; cases resolved (i ncluding settlement); and the amount of damages
awarded.
According to the Law on Courts (Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia, Nos. 3/94,
100/96, 131/97, 129/00), trade courts handle disputes related to the intellectual property.  In the
Republic of Croatia there are four trade courts which have civil jurisdiction over intellectual property
rights infringement.  The two largest of the abov ementioned courts provided data for 2000 as follows:
Trade Court in Zagreb
- 395 instituted proceedings related to intellectual property
- 50 cases resolved
Trade Court in Rijeka
- 1 instituted proceeding for copyright infringement (amount of dispute value approx. €5,000)- 1 instituted proceeding for patent infringement (amount of dispute value approx. €10,000)- neither case is resolved yet.
2. Please provide statistical information related to criminal enforcement in the area of copyright
piracy and trademark infringement for 2000, including the number of raids, prosecutions,
convictions, and the amount of fines and/or jail terms (including whether the fines were paid and
whether the jail term was actually served or was suspended) and any other information establishing
that the criminal system operates effectively to deter copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting.IP/C/W/262/Add.3
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The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia provided data for 2000, covering as well the
period from 1 January to 30 June 2001, as follows:
The police seized:
• 46,540 compact discs,
• 17,684 videocasettes,
• 3 294 audiocassettes,
• 2124 floppy discs,
• 50 DVD,
• 26 mini discs,
• 6 ZIP media
• 69 PC including equipment
The police dealt with:
• 1046 cases of intellectual property infringement
• 517 criminal charges were brought
• 422 persons and 495 intellectual property infringements were reported specifically for
infringement of authors' and performers' rights.
The Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and Local Self-Management of the Republic of Croatia
and Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia provided data for 2000 as follows:
- 5 persons were reported for infringing authors' and performers' rights, out of which one
person was prosecuted but nobody was convicted;
- 309 persons were reported for unauthorized use of authors' works or of performers'
performances, out of which 250 were prosecuted and 205 convicted.  Out of the total number
of convicted persons:  1 person was sentenced to prison (actually served) and 71 jail termswere suspended, 114 persons were fined (and fines actually paid) and 9 persons were fined
under suspension;
- 9 persons were issues court citations and 1 person a re-education measure, 4 persons were
reported for infringing the rights of phonogram producers/broadcasting organizations, 5
persons were prosecuted out of which 3 were unconditionally fined;
- 3 persons were reported for counterfeiting trademarks; no-one was prosecuted or convicted.
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