Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Special Session - Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Manzoor Ahmad, to the Trade Negotiations Committee

World Trade Organization TN/IP/17 23 July 2007 (07-3126) 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 my own responsibility and is without prejudice to the positions of delegations. This report covers the work since my last report of 26 July 2006 (TN/IP/16), during which period I have had open-ended informal meetings and consultations in a variety of formats. No new proposals have been made and the three proposals set out side by side in document TN/IP/W/12 of September 2005 continue to be those on the table in the Special Session. In the light of consultations that I held in December 2006 and February 2007, an ad