DOHA: An awareness lecture was held for customs inspectors to help improve their skills to detect counterfeit products, fight commercial fraud and protect intellectual property rights.
The lecture was organised to mark Arab Customs Day that falls on March 3 every year.
Customs officials, especially the inspectors, were told how to tell a replica of a real product from the real product itself, among other things.
Latest techniques to fight commercial fraud and help protect intellectual property rights were also explained to the participants. The lecture was held as part of a broader goal to implement the recommendations of Directors-General of Customs Departments in the Arab world.
The focus was on recommendations, particularly the ones made at the 25th Meeting of Arab Customs Directors-General held in the year 2013.
It was decided at this meeting to mark March 3 every year as Arab Customs Day, a release from Qatar’s Customs General Authority said yesterday.The Peninsula
