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:

exchange of information about the legislation, law-enforcement practice and systems of intellectual property of the states of the Parties;

experience exchange in the field of examination of the requests connected with provision of legal protection to intellectual property items;

experience exchange in the field of protection and protection of copyright and the related rights, including concerning counteraction to copyright violations and the related rights on the Internet, and also experience exchange in the field of collective management of copyright and related rights;

cooperation of law enforcement agencies of the states of the Parties on identification, suppression and investigation of offenses in the field of intellectual property;

cooperation of customs authorities of the states of the Parties regarding application of measures of protection of the rights to intellectual property items, maintaining national customs registers of intellectual property items;

implementation of modern information technologies to the sphere of intellectual property, protection and protection of the rights in the digital circle;

coordination of line items of the Parties in case of discussion of questions of intellectual property at international venues, including the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO);

professional training and advanced training of personnel in the field of intellectual property;

holding joint seminars, conferences, round tables and other scientific actions for questions of intellectual property;

other directions of cooperation which can be determined by the Parties.

Article 3. International agreements

1. The parties take feasible measures for inclusion of regulations on intellectual property in bilateral agreements in economic, industrial, scientific and technical spheres which realization raises the questions of intellectual property.

2. This agreement does not affect the rights and obligations of the states of the Parties following from bilateral and multi-lateral international treaties in the field of intellectual property and does not interfere with participation of the states of the Parties in bilateral and multilateral cooperation with other states.

Article 4. Organizational mechanism of cooperation

1. The parties determine the list of competent authorities, and also the coordinating bodies for the purposes of implementation of cooperation within implementation of this agreement and notify on this each other.

2. The cooperation between competent authorities of the Parties is performed taking into account the relevant interdepartmental documents.

3. The relations in the field of processing and personal data protection by their cross-border transfer are regulated by the legislation of the states of the Parties on personal data.

4. Working language of cooperation within this agreement is Russian.

Article 5. Financing

Financing of the events for implementation of this agreement held by the Parties is performed within the means which are annually provided in budgets of the states of the Parties on accomplishment of functions of the relevant competent authorities.

Article 6. Dispute resolution

The disputes and disagreements connected with implementation of this agreement are permitted by means of negotiations between the Parties.

Article 7. Final provisions

1. This agreement becomes effective from the date of receipt through diplomatic channels of the last written notice of accomplishment of the interstate procedures by the Parties necessary for entry into force of this agreement. Each of the Parties has the right to terminate this agreement, having sent to other Party the adequate notice. This agreement will stop the action after six months from the date of receipt of such notification.

2. By mutual consent of the Parties changes and additions which are drawn up by the relevant protocol can be made to this agreement and are integral part of this agreement.

From the effective date this agreement the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Belarus on cooperation in the field of protection of industrial property signed on July 20, 1994 in Minsk continues to be applied in the part which is not contradicting this agreement.

It is made in Moscow on March 13, 2025 in duplicate in Russian.

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