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of intellectual property rights, and on market access for those who depend on the exploitation of those rights. Our copyright industry arguably is the primary beneficiary of this combination of enhanced protection and market access. Among other things, the agreement required China to:
- take immediate action against those well-known factories producing huge quantities of pirated and counterfeited products;
- make structural changes to ensure effective enforcement of intellectual property rights over the long term, with coordination of enforcement efforts at the national, regional and local levels;
- prohibit the use of infringing products - particularly computer software - in government ministries;
- create a customs enforcement system modeled after the U.S. system;
- create a title verification system to help prevent the unauthorized production, importation||iexportation and retail sale of U.S. audio-visual works,
- allow U.S. intellectual-property related corfipanies to enter into joint ventures for the production, reproduction and distribution of their products within China.
In some areas of the agreement, China has gotten off to a good start, with establishment of enforcement x.task forces, raids against computer software pirates, action against CD-ROM piracy, and issuance of new regulations. At th^ same time, we recognize that piracy remains a serious problem in China, and that we must keep up the pressure on China to implement the agreement effectively. USTR has established an Executive Secretariat, with private sector participation, to collect and analyze information on China's implementation of the agreement, and to coordinate training programs. A high-level USTR team plans to visit China for consultations under the agreement in late July.
In April 1995, to address the uncontrolled piracy of U.S. sound recordings in Bulgaria, we reached a detailed agreement with Bulgaria on the protection of U.S. copyrighted works. Under that agreement, Bulgaria signed on to the Geneva phonograms Convention, amended its laws to make copyright infringement a criminal offense, and committed itself to put into place a copyright verification system.
Also in April, to address the rampant piracy of U.S. copyrighted works, particularly computer software, in Indonesia, we secured a commitment from the Government of Indonesia to undertake significant efforts to fight copyright piracy.