A draft law has been submitted to the State Duma to insure Russian companies that import goods without the permission of the copyright holder

23.05.2022       

The government promptly fine-tunes the mechanism of parallel import — A draft law has been submitted to the State Duma to insure Russian companies that import goods without the permission of the copyright holder from possible civil, administrative and criminal liability. The fact that such imports are not a violation of the law will be fixed at the level of the law — lawyers note that this will eliminate the current competition of legal norms and provide importers with extended guarantees.
the issue of business liability for parallel imports. Recall that the import of goods without the permission of the copyright holder and bypassing official distributors was legalized in early May, when the Ministry of Industry and Trade published a list of products for which the ban on parallel imports of — this is about 50 categories of goods.
Before that, in March, a law was adopted giving the government temporary anti-crisis powers, among which was the right to establish by its acts a list of goods for which certain provisions of the Civil Code (CC) on the protection of exclusive rights to the results of intellectual activity. This order of legalization of parallel imports was chosen for efficiency — government regulations are passed faster than laws, which must be approved by both houses of the Federal Assembly and signed by the president. Kommersant