Compte rendu ‒ Conseil des ADPIC ‒ Afficher les détails de l'intervention/la déclaration

Ambassador Yonov Agah (Nigeria)
Chairperson
N INFORMATION ON RELEVANT DEVELOPMENTS ELSEWHERE IN THE WTO
244. The Chairman said that the Kingdom of Tonga had become the 151st Member of the WTO on 27 July 2007. In paragraph 169 of the Report of the Working Party on the Accession of Tonga (WT/ACC/TON/17 and WT/MIN(05)/4), the representative of Tonga had confirmed that Tonga would apply the TRIPS Agreement no later than 30 June 2008 according to the Action Plan in Table 11 of the Report with the understanding that during this period protection for intellectual property rights listed in paragraphs 167 and 168 of that Report would be applied in Tonga. This commitment was incorporated in paragraph 2 of the Protocol on the Accession of the Kingdom of Tonga (WT/L/644).
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