Ambassador Dacio Castillo (Honduras)

Brazil

11 CONTRIBUTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TO FACILITATE THE TRANSFER OF ENVIRONMENTALLY RATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

340. I would like to thank Ecuador for raising, once again, the important issue of climate change and technology transfer. Brazil welcomes the debate and would like to present some considerations on the relationship between climate change and TRIPS Agreement. 341. TRIPS Agreement is a result of negotiations that have struck a delicate balance between stimulus to innovation and promotion of public interest in sectors of vital importance to socioeconomic and technological development of Members. One principle of the Agreement is that IP contributes, not only to technological innovation, but also to technology transfer and technology dissemination, to the mutual advantage of producers and users of knowledge in a way conducive to social and economic welfare; 342. In this sense, the use of TRIPS flexibilities is pivotal to ensure that these objectives, socioeconomic and technological development, will be reached. Taking into account the big number of questions raised by some members on the subject, Brazil could go along with the proposal of Ecuador of updating their proposal with support from the Secretariat.

The Council took note of the statements made.

11.1. The Chairman said that this item had been put on the agenda at the written request by the delegation of Ecuador. He recalled that, at the Council's meeting in March 2013, Ecuador had briefly presented, under "Other Business", its submission entitled "Contribution of Intellectual Property for Facilitating the Transfer of Environmentally Rational Technology" (IP/C/W/585 in English and French, and IP/C/W/Rev.1 in Spanish). That document had been discussed at the Council's meeting of June 2013 under agenda item "Intellectual Property, Climate Change and Development" that had been put on the agenda at the request of Ecuador. At Ecuador's request, the Council had continued this discussion at its meeting in October.

11.2. The representatives of Ecuador, Cuba, Chile, El Salvador, the European Union, India, Japan, Switzerland, the United States, China, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, and Benin took the floor under this agenda item.

11.3. The Council took note of the statements made.

IP/C/M/75, IP/C/M/75/Add.1