Projects and plans for the development of national industry

8/1/2017 0:00


BAGHDAD / Farah pumice
At a time when industrial specialist stressed the importance of upgrading the national production through access to local and international certification, the Department of branding a section of the Department of Industrial Development and organization completed in the Ministry of Industry and Minerals registered trademark 3022 through 2016.

A competent Aqeel al-Saadi "morning": that "the move to grant trademark and access to global quality task of certificates to the upgrading of the national industries."

Still, he said Saadi said the "national product competes with imported in quality, but he needs a real support by the state with the imposition of high tariffs on imported goods, mostly of poor quality."

Specialist, one of the members of the committee formed by the government to develop the industrial sector, hailed as "the latest government step in bringing economic reform by supporting the private sector," revealing near launch projects and plans to upgrade the national industry.

For his part, the director of the Department of brands in the Ministry of Industry Ismail Hakki Mustafa said that "doubling efforts and organization of work in the section shares in doubling revenues compared to what has been achieved over the past year."

He expressed his "hope to double the revenue of up to three billion dinars a year," he said, adding that "the department will grant the trademark on according to legal and administrative proceedings where the receipt of examination requests and registration by agents trademark registration after payment of approved fees in accordance with trademarks, data and deduction of Law 10 percent of the value of the drawing in order to cover the cost of administration Activity brands according to law after the investigation of the mark within the registered trademarks record are accepted or rejected registration of the mark, according to the reality of the situation. "

He noted that "After accepting the mark be announced in the (3) consecutive bulletins for the purpose of public access to them is then to provide the owner of the mark a certificate recording if no provision of any objection to the publication 90 days after the issuance of the third issue of trademark bulletin that The renewal of the trademark registration after 10 years, but will be considered null and void as well. case for foreign markers for goods produced outside Iraq and marketed within Iraq. "

Mustafa warned that "the registration process is done by an Iraqi lawyer holds the agency for the owner of a certified mark of four points is the country of origin and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and taxes and the central bank and apply the same procedures to grant trademark," explaining that "the granting of the brand contributes to take the product a wide range deployment, marketing and gives consumer confidence product quality and validity ". as he hoped" the adoption of the single window system in the electronic registration of trademarks, as is the case in neighboring countries. "

The Trademark Department of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals is the only body authorized to grant trademark in Iraq in accordance with the branding and data Law No. 21 of 1957 amended and Iraq, a member of the Paris Convention on Industrial Property and the Convention on Singapore brands that section and after the events of 2003 suffered arson when he was linked to the Iraqi Federation of industries and in 2005 moved to the Activity section of the Ministry of Industry and minerals, as it has been attached to the angel of the legal department is currently within the structural development of the Department of industrial organization and branches to the people of the inquiry and Registration Division and the legal, financial and administrative division.

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