Erbil: On April 25, 2019,  a conference on intellectual property was held under the auspices of the Erbil Chamber of Commerce and Industry  in coordination with the French Consulate General / Economic Department, attended by a number of relevant government officials including the Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Parliament of Kurdistan, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture and Youth, Director General of Quality Control in the Ministry of Health - Head of the Center for Information and Strategic Studies, Dr. Dara Jalil Al-Khayat, President of the Erbil Chamber and the French Consul General , who spoke about the issue and its negative repercussions and the importance of the role of government and quality control institutions to reduce the entry fake and imitation goods. 

The conference was composed of two pronged program in which local specialists talked about the role of the regional government and its measures to combat a trade in violation of international laws as well as the role of the private sector in confronting this dangerous scourge practiced by some of the international mafias to obtain Illegal gain at the expense of the health and pockets of citizens.