Source: Diário de Cuiabá - 20/09/2012

The city halls of Cuiabá and Várzea Grande, will sign an agreement with the Ministry of Justice and will join the Cidade Livre de Pirataria this Wednesday (19). The action of the National Council to Combat Piracy and Crimes against Intellectual Property (CNCP) has encouraged city halls to adopt mechanisms to confront this type of crime.

With the formalization of the agreement, in a ceremony at the headquarters of the Brazilian Bar Association - Mato Grosso Section (OAB / MT), a training course will start for about 280 public agents in Cuiabá and Várzea Grande. The course is promoted by CNCP in partnership with the National Forum Against Piracy and Illegality.

The aim of the course is to present the differences between original and counterfeit productions to public officials. Demonstrations of electronic products, medicines, CDs and DVDs, cigarettes, software, clothing, shoes and accessories are carried out, in addition to beauty products. At the workshop, participants can handle the products and see what distinguishes an original product from a counterfeit. Since 2010, nearly three thousand professionals have been trained, including municipal guards, urban control inspectors, members of commercial and business associations, civil and military police.

Cidade Livre de Pirataria is managed by the Brazilian Institute of Ethics in Competition (ETCO) and is part of the National Plan to Combat Piracy, launched in 2009 by the Ministry of Justice. So far, São Paulo and Osasco (SP), Brasília (DF), Curitiba (PR), Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and Belo Horizonte (MG) have joined the project. (Advisory / Ministry of Justice).