The Minister Marcos Pereira met on Tuesday with representatives of the Competitive Brazil Movement (MBC), a civil association that aims to support projects to improve governance and the business environment. During the meeting, the founding president of the MBC, Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter, explained the Minister his views on the cooperation agreement signed earlier this month between MDIC and MBC.

The agreement aims to restructure the operational performance of the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), with a focus on improving processes, increase efficiency and decrease the period for granting patents.

The minister said that increasing the INPI efficiency, an agency linked to the MDIC is one of its priorities in charge of Folder. "Our role is to support and defend the productive sector," said Pereira. In the evaluation of Gerdau, "the resumption of the country 's economic growth passes through two ways: export and infrastructure"

Diagnosis

The MBC is conducting a diagnosis of the current situation of the municipality. From the result, which will be delivered within 180 days, measures will be taken in order to improve the business environment, reduction of legal uncertainty and encouraging investment.

In 2015, the ministry has mapped barriers and bottlenecks in the intellectual property area and defined three areas of action for improvement of INPI's performance: international cooperation - to assimilate the best practices used in the world -; strengthening the body examiners; and restructuring processes, such as the need to improve management and institutional performance, decreasing the backlog - which is the average waiting time for granting patents.