202. The Chairman said that the Republic of Cape Verde had become the 153rd Member of the WTO on 23 July 2008. In paragraph 246 of the Report of the Working Party on the Accession of Cape Verde (WT/ACC/CPV/30), the representative of Cape Verde had confirmed that it would apply the TRIPS Agreement by no later than 1 January 2013, according to an action plan contained in the Report and with the understanding that, for the obligations covered by Sections 5 and 7 of Part II of the TRIPS Agreement or to enforce rights provided for under these Sections, Cape Verde would apply the TRIPS Agreement no later than 1 January 2016, in light of paragraph 7 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health. He added that further details could be found in the Report. This commitment had been incorporated into paragraph 2 of the Protocol of Accession of the Republic of Cape Verde (WT/L/715).
