AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of March 13, 2025

About cooperation in the field of intellectual property

The government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Belarus which are hereinafter referred to as with the Parties

recognizing role which is played by intellectual property in economic and technology development of the states at the present stage,

wishing to support and strengthen historically developed mutually beneficial cooperation for the benefit of national economies,

recognizing that necessary condition for such cooperation is development of interaction in the field of intellectual property,

confirming commitment to provisions of international treaties in the field of intellectual property which participants are the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus,

agreed as follows:

Article 1. Purposes and tasks

1. The purposes of this agreement are determination of mechanisms and the directions of cooperation of the Parties in the field of legal protection of intellectual property items, including objects of copyright and the related rights, inventions, useful models, industrial designs, trademarks and service marks, plant varieties and breeds of animals, topology of integral chips, geographical instructions, names of places of goods origin, protection and management of the rights to them, creation of conditions for development of such cooperation on the mutually advantageous and balanced basis.

2. The cooperation within this agreement is directed to the solution of the following main objectives:

harmonization of the national legal system of the Parties in the field of intellectual property;

stimulation of creation, legal protection and use of intellectual property items;

ensuring proper level of protection of the rights to intellectual property items;

increase in public awareness in the field of intellectual property.

Article 2. Directions of cooperation

For goal achievement of this agreement the following directions of cooperation are provided:

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