112. The representative of Argentina disagreed with the interpretation made by the European Communities of the language of Article 24.1 of the TRIPS Agreement. That provision appeared under Article 24 and not under Article 23, particularly under its paragraph 4. Had the framers of the TRIPS Agreement intended otherwise, they would have included the language of Article 24.1 in a paragraph 5 to Article 23. She considered it strange that the EC proposal gave, on one hand, great importance to the application of Article 24.1, and, on the other, subtracted the safeguards that other Members had, namely the right to invoke at national level the exceptions under Article 24.
