The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved and published in parallel (as approved by the Chamber of Deputies), a resolution put to the extreme concern at violations of intellectual property rights of American companies in Russia and China expressed. The resolution notes that the piracy in these countries a "highly" accomplished and cause the U.S. economy $ 4 billion in damage every year, and therefore degrade particular jobs. In the resolution, is that when acting these countries not to meet its obligations, the United States will be to deprive the question Russia the right to use the trade preferences granted consider, and be applied to China, the impact of WTO too, of which he measured. The text of the resolution can be found in English on the website of the U.S. Senate, published in Russian translation "Lenta.ru". The introduction of the document, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Republican Senator Richard Lugar that "piracy in Russia is growing octavatsya problem continues." "At the end of the nineties in Russia only a few plants that supply pirated discs available reports indicate that in Russia there are now over 30 such companies was." - Cited Lugar RIA "Novosti". In his words, they "destroy the Russian market for U.S. rights holders and undermine the markets in Europe." "The Russian government has made many promises to solve this problem, but significant results yet," - said Lugar. The resolution of the U.S. Congress on measures against Russia and China: "In view of the fact that the intellectual property critical to the competitiveness of the economy of our country, its cultural diversity, health and scientific development, in view of the fact that the economy the United States increasingly zavichit by the authors, artists, inventors, programmers and other people who create valuable intellectual products, in view of the fact that as a result of theft of intellectual property industry loses competitiveness of the United States, American workers lose their jobs, and suffer the whole economy of the country in view of the fact that the manufacturer product protected by copyright, with approximately 11500000 hire workers or 8.41 percent of total employment in the United States - a figure that the number of people in the health and social services (15.3 million workers) and number of employees in the entire manufacturing sector (14.5 million workers in 21 industries) is approaching, and in view of the fact that in the presence of a serious concern that many of our trading partners unable to cope with the implementation of international commitments in the field of copyright, in view of the fact that imitation is the intellectual property in the digital and other representations and equally all kinds of counterfeit registered trademarks of products reached enormous proportions, in view of the fact prevent many of our trading partners, such as Russia and China, the laws to combat piracy and counterfeiting, but can not cope with their compliance, given the fact that only Russia and China are responsible to piracy for more than $ 4000000000 losses for the industry in the United States each year, given the fact that piracy in China and Russia openly, it is well known and not the physical barriers of their governments, and in view of the fact that China, with the obligations of the intellectual property to protect a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), in view of the fact that Russia on measures to combat piracy, to comply with WTO rules, in light of the fact that the United States must bring to these countries is looking for that inaction would have political and economic consequences in the relations with the United States, and effective, the fact that prescribed the Congress passed laws to protect intellectual property, including actions by the administration of the authority of the country to give a conducting appropriate and does not provide Protection of Intellectual Property: So, from now on the Senate (and the House of Representatives) determines that 1) the administration should use effective tools and solutions to respond to the lack of intellectual property protection in China and Russia, with all available tools provided by Congress, 2) The Administration shall ensure that each country in which the rights of the program of generalized tariff preferences (GSP), for example, Russia, commitment to adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights, otherwise the country lose the opportunity to participate in a program of trade preferences, and 3) The management states that to ensure the measures against any country with which the United States shares the WTO agreements, for example, against China if the country is located in the is to fulfill its WTO obligations, and 4) the management should take the Russian measures to protect intellectual property in order to ensure compliance with WTO standards in this area, and 5) The President shall take such additional measures deemed necessary to to protect the rights of intellectual property of the business of the United States. 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