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

Ambassador C. Trevor Clarke (Barbados)
C; D; E REVIEW OF THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 27.3(B); RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TRIPS AGREEMENT AND THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; PROTECTION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND FOLKLORE
19. The Chairman recalled that, at its last meeting, the Council had agreed to maintain its present method of work on these matters at this stage, and to keep this method under review to assess whether any change might prove appropriate in the light of developments. As suggested by the Chairman, the Council continued its past practice of discussing these three agenda items together, on the basis of the contributions by Members. 20. In addition to recording the discussions in the formal session of the Council, the minutes below on these items also reflect, as agreed to by the Council, additional points made by certain delegations in the informal consultations held on the TRIPS Agreement and the CBD as an outstanding implementation issue by Deputy Director-General, Rufus Yerxa, on 6 and 14 June 2006. 21. He recalled that two new documents had been presented to the Council's March meeting: one from the United States, (IP/C/W/469); and another from Cuba, Ecuador, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, which had been made available as an advance copy. Since the meeting, Bolivia had requested to be added to the list of co-sponsors. This addition had been made to the document before its circulation as document IP/C/W/470. As these two documents had been made available just prior to that meeting, some delegations had indicated that they intended to make further comments on them at the present meeting. The Council had received two new communications, one from Japan, (IP/C/W/472); and another from Norway (IP/C/W/473, WT/GC/W/566 and TN/C/W/42).
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