459. As in previous occasions and for Members' information, the Secretariat will provide a brief update of the issues related to intellectual property policy that have come up in the most recent Trade Policy Reviews.
460. Since our last report during the TRIPS Council Meeting in March, the Trade Policy Reviews of El Salvador, the Organization of East Caribbean States, Liberia and the European Union. During these reviews, delegations engaged in the discussions and sought further details on:
The domestic implementation of the TRIPS Agreement;
Institutional arrangements for the administration and enforcement of intellectual property;
Copyright and related rights regimes;
Trademark regime;
Protection of geographical indications;
Patent regime;
Enforcement, online and at the border; and
Measures taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
461. The Secretariat has prepared the IP chapters for the Director-General's Trade Monitoring Reports covering the G20 and the WTO membership. The period covered by these reports is from mid-October 2022 to mid-May 2023. The reports will be circulated in July and discussed at a special meeting of the Trade Policy Review Body.
462. We would like to thank delegations that submitted information for the trade monitoring exercise. The WTO Secretariat works closely with all delegations to collect complete, up-to-date and accurate information on their trade and trade-related measures. An important step is the Secretariat's verification exercise, which provides Members with the opportunity to confirm relevant information collected from non-official sources.
