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Successful kick-off of assistance on the Revised Kyoto Convention
By Eproint
The World Customs Organization (WCO) successfully launched its light touch intervention in the Central America region with the participation of the Central America Integration System (SIECA) and the Customs Administrations of El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. By the same token, the WCO experts conducted the first regional workshop on the Revised Kyoto Convention.The Revised Kyoto Convention promotes trade facilitation and effective controls through its legal provisions that detail the application of simple yet efficient procedures. It also contains new and obligatory rules for its application which all Contracting Parties must accept without reservation.
During the workshop, the participants reinforced their knowledge of the Revised Kyoto Convention, its benefits, the process for accession, and its interrelation with the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. Technical experts from each country were actively engaged in the hands-on activity for completing the RKC self-assessment toolkit to thoroughly review their respective compliance levels of the RKC.
The countries will now be working towards closing the gaps identified in the assessment by implementing the international standards designed to further simplify, harmonize, and facilitate cross-border trade.
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In El Salvador, Practice Head Edy Guadalupe Portal is a partner at Eproint and has more than 25 years of experience in Intellectual Property. Since 1995, she has been recognized as the Salvadoran voice of Intellectual Property protection for always informing the IP community about changes to IP law and international treaties.
During her career, Mrs. Portal has helped numerous international law firms and in-house counsel with all facets of their IP matters in El Salvador and Central America. Her extensive practice includes work in trademarks, patents, industrial designs, utility models, copyrights, unfair competition, foreign investment, regulatory law/health registrations, licensing, franchising, appellations of origin, geographical indications, IP litigation, fashion law, new technologies, data privacy, cybersecurity, domain names, entertainment law, advertisement law, trade secrets, valuation of intangibles, and IP due diligence. She is also recognized for the great anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting results she has delivered for her clients. She also helps coordinate Latin America Intellectual Property Protection for the firm.