56. The representative of Argentina reaffirmed her delegation's serious concerns with regard to the issue of registration. She had trouble understanding the relation between establishing a complex system of reservations with the goal of ensuring reliability of the information notified. The registration and notification systems under the EC proposal were interrelated with the reservation procedure and its legal effects. Her delegation had serious systemic concerns with the fact that such a system, when seen in its entirety, was unprecedented when compared to other international IPR regimes. What Members were supposed to negotiate was the establishment of a system that would facilitate, and not modify, the protection of geographical indications. There was also no mandate to renegotiate how the exceptions were to be applied. The EC proposal would not create a neutral legal instrument, but rather a political system with mandatory bilateral negotiations. Such a system would have an impact in terms of legal security and predictability, as political pressure would be exercised by some countries against others that had less political clout and because it would seek to establish a supranational system for geographical indications that would have validity in each of the Member countries of the WTO.
