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

Ambassador Eui-yong Chung (Korea)
C.3.b.ii Costs
88. The representative of Canada agreed that it would be up to the Special Session to find a registration system where the costs had to be factored in, and it was difficult to estimate what the actual costs might be without any real information on the actual volume of registrations. Referring to the bilateral negotiations on wines that Canada was having with the EC, she said that there were some 120 pages of single lines of names, which would amount to some 10,000 names, out of which only 28 to 40 were of commercial interest. She observed that a system that ended up with 28 to 40 names was very different from a system with 10,000 names.
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