Source: Agência Senado - DF - 25/08/2009

Senator Romeu Tuma (PTB-SP) praised the National Plan to Combat Piracy, recently announced by the Ministry of Justice. The plan establishes actions to be implemented by the end of 2012, several of them strengthening the partnership with states and municipalities and with entities representing commerce and industry.

Tuma noted that current police stations specializing in counterfeiting and defrauding are no longer sufficient to suppress the production and commercialization of pirated goods. For this reason, the Plan to Combat Piracy seeks to provide the government with technological capacity to target criminals. The senator stated that it is unlikely that Brazil, alone, will be able to contain the sale of pirated products and, therefore, the plan foresees agreements with border countries, including for the increase of inspection.

The senator again defended his proposal to create a CPI to investigate counterfeit drugs. He reported that this type of crime has been increasing and, last year, 170 tons of fake drugs were seized. For him, this is one of the worst forms of piracy, as it affects the health of the population.

- They reached the absurdity of falsifying products used in laboratory tests, which can lead to death - he lamented.

In the same pronouncement, Romeu Tuma informed that he had obtained from the president of the Chamber of Deputies, deputy Michel Temer, a commitment to vote on a project of his authorship that gives preventive police power to municipal guards, already approved by the Senate. Tuma also greeted the ground forces during the Soldier's Day.