Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Special Session - Multilateral System of Notification and Registration of Geographical Indications for Wines and Spirits - Draft Report by[...]or C. Trevor Clarke (Barbados)
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- 2009/12/03
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World Trade
Organization TN/IP/19
25 November 2009 (09-5943) Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Special Session
MULTILATERAL SYSTEM OF NOTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS FOR WINES AND SPIRITS
Report by the Chairman, Ambassador C. Trevor Clarke (Barbados)
This report on the negotiations on the establishment of a multilateral system of notification and registration ("Register") of geographical indications for wines and spirits is submitted on my own responsibility and is without prejudice to the position of any delegation and to the outcome of the negotiations.
On 29 October 2008, the twentieth formal meeting of the Special Session of the Council for TRIPS confirmed my appointment as Chairman in replacement of Ambassador Manzoor Ahmad (Pakistan), who had relinquished his post at the end of July 2008. The report made by my predecessor in document TN/IP/18, dated 9 June 2008, remains valid in many respe