Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Annual report (2012) of the Council for TRIPS

World Trade Organization IP/C/62 26 November 2012 (12-6510) annual report (2012) of the council for trips general Since the period covered by its 2011 report, the Council for TRIPS has held three formal meetings, on 28-29 February, 5 June and 6-7 November. The minutes of these meetings are to be found in documents IP/C/M/69, IP/C/M/70 and IP/C/M/71. The meetings were chaired by Ambassador Dacio Castillo (Honduras). The meetings of the Council were open to all WTO Members, other governments with observer status in WTO bodies and certain international intergovernmental organizations granted observer status in the Council. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations (UN), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the World Bank,