30. The representative of Brazil supported the statement made by India. He highlighted the importance of the growing support base for the proposal for an amendment to the TRIPS Agreement to include a mandatory requirement for the disclosure of origin of genetic resources and/or associated traditional knowledge that were the objects of patent applications. He said that the recent addition of the Dominican Republic and the ACP Group to the list of co-sponsors of the disclosure proposal had brought the support base for the proposal to slightly over half of the WTO membership. He said that the co-sponsors had submitted a text proposal for the modalities discussion, and hoped that all Members would consider using it as a basis for deliberations when they came to defining the scope of the horizontal modalities exercise.
