232. The representative of the European Union acknowledged that developing and least developed countries might have faced structural challenges in implementing the System. In many instances, technical assistance and capacity building had been crucial to enable those countries to recognize and act on the implications of the TRIPS Agreement on public health policies and establish workable laws, procedures and practices to give effect to the Doha Declaration and the Decision. This had required sound technical advice on how to best integrate the Doha Declaration and the Decision into intellectual property policies and practices. His delegation had integrated sound legislative advice and clarification on how to give effect to the System in order to facilitate access to medicines into its intellectual property technical cooperation programmes with developing countries.
233. In response to the question from the delegation of India, the representative of WIPO noted that, within the CDIP, the Secretariat had been requested to prepare a document on patent-related flexibilities and legislative implementation at the national and regional level. This had been submitted to the previous session of the Committee. WIPO was currently working on forthcoming documents that would include all the flexibilities regarding patents and related technological fields. WIPO provided information to Member countries with respect to the implementation of legal frameworks of which flexibilities within the multilateral framework were part. Efforts had been made to identify those flexibilities that would fit into the development goals of each of the countries that requested WIPO's advice.
