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

Ambassador Eui-yong Chung (Korea, Republic of)
C.iii The purpose of the notification and registration system
92. The representative of Australia said that if China, as a non-participating country, did not object to the names notified by the EC, it would have to enforce them. It would have to translate 8,300 names at its own expense into all the different languages used in China so that products bearing those names could be imported into China. In his view, this would differ from the current rights and obligations under the TRIPS Agreement.
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