Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Report on the Workshop on the WTO Decision on Access to Medicines at Affordable Prices for Countries with no or Insufficient Manufacturing[...]C) (Geneva 12-14 October 2004)
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World Trade
Organization IP/C/W/439
23 February 2005
(05-0748) Council for Trade-Related Aspects
of Intellectual Property Rights Original: English
REPORT ON THE WORKSHOP ON THE WTO DECISION ON ACCESS TO
MEDICINES AT AFFORDABLE PRICES FOR COUNTRIES WITH NO OR INSUFFICIENT MANUFACTURING CAPACITIES, ORGANIZED BY THE COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT IN co-operation WITH THE
ACP GENEVA OFFICE AND the agency for international
trade information and cooperation (AITIC)
(GENEVA 12-14 OCTOBER 2004)
The following communication, dated 9 February 2005, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Barbados on behalf of the Group of Commonwealth Developing Countries and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
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General
By adopting the Decision on Access to Medicines in August 2003, the WTO Members have taken an important step towards the creation of a mechanism under the WTO's legal framework, to ensure that countries which have no or insufficient m