Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Special Session - Special Session of the Council for TRIPS - Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Manzoor Ahmad, to the Trade Negotiations Committee
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World Trade
Organization TN/IP/14
23 November 2005
(05-5543) Council for Trade-Related Aspects
of Intellectual Property Rights
Special Session
special session of the Council for trips
Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Manzoor Ahmad,
to the Trade Negotiations Committee
This report on the negotiations on the establishment of a multilateral system of notification and registration of geographical indications for wines and spirits is submitted on the Chairman's own responsibility and is without prejudice to the position of any delegation and to the outcome of the negotiations.
Article 23.4 of the TRIPS Agreement provides that
"[i]n order to facilitate the protection of geographical indications for wines, negotiations shall be undertaken in the Council for TRIPS concerning the establishment of a multilateral system of notification and registration of geographical indications for wines eligible for protection in those Members participating in the system