Minutes - TRIPS Council Special Session - View details of the intervention/statement

Ambassador C. Trevor Clarke (Barbados)
B.i Meeting of 23 October 2009, p.m.
19. The representative of Switzerland said that her delegation's position on the register was part and parcel of the TN/C/W/52 proposal, and its view on the multilateral register took into account the two other components of this proposal, in particular GI extension. It was against the background of proposing a register that should extend to all products that Switzerland had become less ambitious with regard to the obligations that should be linked to the register. She thanked Members supporting TN/IP/W/10/Rev.2 for the room document. However, she said that after 10 years of negotiations, it would have been useful to go further into detail and not to re-explain how Members' systems worked at the national level, because Members were already aware of that. What were needed at this stage were certain guarantees and standards at the international level regarding a register with which all could comply. 20. With respect to the Chair's first question, it was her delegation's view that the obligation to consult the register should be clearly defined as an obligation to take into account such information. 21. Regarding the Chair's second question, she hoped that in the course of this meeting Members would receive more information, including from countries that supported TN/IP/W/10/Rev.2, as to how this information could be taken into account.
TN/C/W/52; TN/IP/W/10/Rev.2
TN/IP/M/23