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 and enforcement. The United States urges Belarus to take further steps to improve its protection and enforcement of IPR.

Bolivia

Bolivia remains on the Watch List. The United States remains concerned about high levels of piracy and counterfeiting in Bolivia, including the availability of counterfeit medical products, and the overarching need to improve its IPR enforcement. The United States recommends that Bolivia address the problem of unclear lines of responsibility among Bolivian authorities, as well as the need for additional human and financial resources. The United States also recommends that Bolivia work to ensure that judicial authorities prosecute IPR violations efficiently. The United States encourages the new leadership at the Bolivian Intellectual Property Office to increase its efforts with respect to IPR enforcement, and to increase efforts to improve public awareness about IPR protection and enforcement. The United States will continue to monitor Bolivia's progress on these and other issues.

Brazil

Brazil remains on the Watch List. The United States is encouraged by recent improvements that Brazil made with respect to IPR protection and enforcement. Of note was a recent opinion by the Federal Attorney General that the Brazilian sanitary regulatory agency, ANVISA, does not have authority to review patentability requirements when analyzing pharmaceutical patent applications. Instead, the National Industrial Property Institute (INPI) is the only administrative agency with authority to decide questions of patentability with respect to patent applications. Enforcement actions have increased, under the coordination of the National Council to Combat Piracy (CNCP), and these increased actions included several major operations in the beginning of 2011. The United States encourages Brazil to continue this work in 2011. In addition, Brazil took steps to address a backlog of pending patent applications. However, piracy and counterfeiting persist at significant levels in Brazil, including book piracy and a reported growth in piracy over the Internet. While enforcement efforts improved, including a larger number of raids and seizures, stronger enforcement at the border and deterrent level sentences are still needed. The United States urges Brazil to ensure that any amendments to its copyright law provide strong protections and establish means to enable effective enforcement against IPR violations that are committed on the Internet. The United States also encourages Brazil to provide an effective system for protecting against unfair commercial use, as well as unauthorized disclosure, of undisclosed test and other data generated to obtain marketing approval for pharmaceutical products. The United States looks forward to working with Brazil on these and other matters, including under the new United States-Brazil Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation.

Brunei

Brunei remains on the Watch List. Brunei made efforts to address the widespread availability of pirated music through a collaborative effort that it undertook with retailers and the recording industry in 2009. However, despite those efforts, the recording industry reports a recent increase in the availability of pirated music in retail outlets in Brunei. In addition, there is a significant growth of illegal downloading of pirated works of all kinds from the Internet, ranging from entertainment