The High Commissioner can be considered an innovative figure both in the national and in the international panorama. Indeed, it has been thought by the Italian Parliament and Government as an instrument to foster the integration and the collaboration of all the public institutions dealing with counterfeiting, and also as a mean for the whole private sector to be fully involved as a main actor in this fight. In this framework, the mandate of the High Commissioner laid down by law is:

• to coordinate all the public institutions concerned with this problem and to create the framework for a fruitful collaboration among them;
• to monitor the phenomenon and to review the performances of the public institutions;
• to elaborate a national strategy and put forward proposals to reform legislation and regulation;
• to assist the enterprises victim of counterfeiting.

The another function is the monitoring of the phenomenon and the review of the performances of the other national public institutions. In this sense the High Commissioner has created a database containing all the data on counterfeiting in Italy. What is being done is: to collect all the data available on seizures and legal proceedings from the different Italian police forces, to standardize them according to some set criteria, and finally to analyse them. This proceeding will eventually allow us to have a comprehensive and clear picture of the situation of counterfeiting in Italy. What we are hoping is that its analysis will help us to identify the major criticalities of this phenomenon in our country and to develop adequate countermeasures.