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

Ambassador Eui-yong Chung (Korea, Republic of)
C NEGOTIATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MULTILATERAL SYSTEM OF NOTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS FOR WINES AND SPIRITS
5. The Chairperson said that the Special Session had agreed at the June meeting that the WTO Secretariat, with the assistance of the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), would provide factual material about the different types of notification and registration systems. Pursuant to this decision, the International Bureau of WIPO had assisted the WTO Secretariat in the preparation of the factual material (TN/IP/W/4). He therefore suggested that, in view of WIPO's expertise, it would be helpful to ask the International Bureau of WIPO to be present at the meeting for that part of the discussion related to systems of notification and registration so as to be able to respond to any questions relating to WIPO registration systems. He emphasized that his suggestion was not related to the issue of observership for intergovernmental organizations, which the Special Session had just decided to postpone until the November meeting.
It was so agreed.
TN/IP/M/3