Minutes - TRIPS Council Special Session - View details of the intervention/statement

Ambassador D. Mwape (Zambia)
1 NEGOTIATION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MULTILATERAL SYSTEM OF NOTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS FOR WINES AND SPIRITS
1.121. The representative of Bangladesh, speaking on behalf of the LDC Group, said that as it was the first time that a composite text was produced, it was his group's understanding that it remained work in progress, without prejudice to Member's positions on the overall outcome of the negotiations, that nothing would be agreed until everything had been agreed, and that Members could revert to any issue of the text at any time. In spite of human and financial capacity constraints, his group had started working on the elements of the Draft Composite Text, especially with (1) legal effects/consequences of the registration, (2) fees and costs, and (3) S&D, and would come up with specific positions in the coming days.
The Special Session took note of the statements made.
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