Anti-Counterfeiting Group

Each year, ACG makes awards to trading standards officers and departments, police, customs and other enforcement organisations, for exceptional work in the fight against counterfeiting during the preceding year. ACG members nominate candidates in each category, and a panel of members then decides who should receive the awards. It's 22 years since A... CG introduced these awards to mark the implementation of the duty placed on local authorities to enforce the relevant provisions of the Trade Marks Act 1980. In the past few years, resources have been increasingly stretched, and smarter enforcement has developed in response, with more partnership working and an intelligence-based approach which is paying dividends - both between rights holders and law enforcement and between the different enforcement agencies. All the winners are working with greatly reduced resources, while the workload seems to increase year on year. We are very proud of our enforcement colleagues and their refusal to give up, in the face of huge and ever-increasing challenges. All the nominees were very deserving and tough decisions had to be taken by our panel in choosing the winners.Read More