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Reply:
Mr President,
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In the past three years, the Customs and Excise Department has conducted a total of 2,057 operations against the sale of counterfeit goods - 778 operations in 1994, 616 operations in 1995 and 663 operations in 1996.
The Department does not keep separate records for reports lodged by members of the public, trade mark owners and their agents. Out of the 2,057 operations conducted in the past three years, 1,070 were the results of reports lodged by members of the public and trade mark owners/agents and the rest were initiated by Customs.
The Department instituted a total of 1,622 prosecutions against sellers of counterfeit goods in the past three years, with 610 prosecutions in 1994, 446 in 1995 and 566 in 1996. The average success rates of these prosecutions were 98.7% in 1994, 98.1% in 1995, and 97.7% in 1996.
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Eight ex-military sites proposed for residential development
Following is a question by the Hon Lee Wing-tat and a reply by the Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands, Mr Bowen Leung, in the Legislative Council today(Wednesday):
Question:
The Government has just announced its plan of releasing eight pieces of land previously used as military sites for residential development, with six of them being designated as low and medium density residential development sites. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council whether, given the current shortage of housing supply, the Government's intention not to earmark all the sites for use as high density residential developments is related to infrastructural constraints; if so, whether the Government will consider expediting the funding procedures for the relevant infrastructural projects, so as to facilitate their early completion such that the sites in question can be developed for use as high density residential development sites; if not, of the reasons for not earmarking those six sites for high density residential developments?