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

Ambassador D. Mwape (Zambia)
1 NEGOTIATION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MULTILATERAL SYSTEM OF NOTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS FOR WINES AND SPIRITS
1.145. The Chairman said that the brackets around the words "wines or spirits" in the composite text obviously invited comments. This issue would have to be addressed before the process could make any meaningful headway beyond just putting differences on paper. However, as the Chair of this negotiating group, he felt it was his duty to stave off this encroachment and focus on the issues within the mandate and especially certain issues, such as participation and legal effects.
The Special Session took note of the statements made.
TN/IP/M/28