Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Annual review of the decision on the implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and public health - Repo[...] Report to the General Council

World Trade Organization IP/C/57 10 December 2010 (10-6685) Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE DECISION ON THE implementation of paragraph 6 of the doha declaration on the trips agreement and public health Report to the General Council Paragraph 8 of the Decision on the Implementation of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health of 30 August 2003 (the "2003 Decision") provides that the Council for TRIPS shall review annually the functioning of the System set out in the Decision with a view to ensuring its effective operation and shall annually report on its operation to the General Council. This review is deemed to fulfil the review requirements of Article IX:4 of the WTO Agreement. The sixth annual review took place in October 2009 and the General Council took note of the report of the Council for TRIPS (IP/C/53) at its meeting on 17 December 2009 (WT/GC/M/124, p