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Ambassador C. Trevor Clarke (Barbados)
J ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS – COMMUNICATION FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
166. The delegation of Argentina said that issues relating to enforcement could be dealt with under the Council's agenda item on the review pursuant to Article 63.2. The proposal to make this issue a separate and permanent agenda item was not acceptable. This would be imbalanced, focusing on the interests of right holders, while not taking the objectives in Article 7 sufficiently into account, in particular the contribution of IPR protection and enforcement to social and economic welfare. She disagreed with the objectives of the EC initiative which in her view seemed to aim at amending the Agreement or establishing best practices. She also disagreed with Switzerland, which in her view seemed to consider that problems with enforcement were limited to developing countries, since counterfeiting and piracy also occurred in developed countries.
IP/C/M/51