Third Meeting of the Project Steering Committee

The Third Meeting of the Project Steering Committee of the EU-ASEAN Project on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (ECAP III) was held in Negara, Brunei Darussalam, on 12 March 2015, back to back with the 46th session of the ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation.

At this meeting, the Project Steering Committee, the body responsible to oversee and validate the overall direction and policy of the project, adopted the ECAP III Phase II Annual Work Plan 2015 and approved the project Activity Report 2014, prepared by the Project Management Team. The Annual Work Plan 2015 comprises a total of 21 key activities to be implemented across the ASEAN region between March 2015 and February 2016. 

The Project Steering Committee meeting was co-chaired by Mr TAN Yih San, Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, Chair of the ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation, on behalf of ASEAN and Mr Antonio Berenguer, Head of Trade and Economic Section, European Union Delegation in Bangkok, on behalf of the European Union. The meeting was attended by representatives of the ten ASEAN Member States, the ASEAN Secretariat, the European Union Delegation in Bangkok and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in its capacity as project implementing agency.