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The ASEAN Project on Intellectual Property Rights (ECAP III), approved by the European Union and ASEAN in 2009, has entered Phase II in December 2012.

The implementation of Phase II has been entrusted to the EU Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) after the recent reformulation and realignment of the project content in accordance with the ASEAN IPR Action Plan 2011-2015. Phase II will be implemented over a period of three years, from 2013 to 2015, and will contribute to the following strategic goals identified by ASEAN in that Action Plan:

ECAP III Phase II comprises four components, namely:

Key activities to be implemented under each of these components shall contribute to achieve the overall project objective “to further integrate ASEAN countries into the global economy and world trading system to promote economic growth and reduce poverty in the region”, and the specific project objective of “supporting ASEAN regional integration and further upgrade and harmonize the systems for IP creation, protection, administration and enforcement in the ASEAN region, in line with international IP standards and with the ASEAN IPR Action Plan 2011-2015”.