86. The representative of Turkey informed the Council that an Electronic Commerce Coordination Committee, formed in his country in early 1998, had been working in the framework of a pilot project. As regards electronic commerce and intellectual property, the Committee had underlined two basic objectives in its Executive Report, which had been officially adopted by the Government. These two objectives could be summarized as follows. First, instead of introducing new exclusive rights for the electronic environment, it was considered important to develop new technologies to prevent intellectual property infringements. Secondly, Turkey was in favour of becoming a party to the new WIPO Copyright Treaty and WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, and meeting the requirements in these treaties concerning rights management information.
