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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Please accept my apologies for a mistake
in the title of my email. The delay granted to LDCs is until 1<sup>st</sup> July
2013 and not 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Davinia Ovett
[mailto:dovett@3dthree.org] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 29 November 2005 16:51<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'ESCR-Right-to-Health@yahoogroups.com';
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">'ESCR-TRADE@yahoogroups.com'</st1:PersonName>; <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">'pha-exchange@lists.kabissa.org'</st1:PersonName>; '<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">AIDS_ASIA@yahoogroups.com</st1:PersonName>'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> WTO: TRIPS Council grants
LDCs extension until 2007 only and not 2021</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I would like to inform you that the
WTO TRIPS Council decided today, 29 November 2005, to extend the implementation
period of the TRIPS Agreement for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) for an
additional seven years instead of the fifteen years requested by LDC countries.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>LDC members are meant to implement
the TRIPS Agreement on 1<sup>st</sup> January 2006 unless they make a request
for an extension. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Zambia</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
on behalf of the LDC members of the WTO, made a request on 13 October 2005 to
extend this implementation period an additional fifteen years (until at least
2021). See WTO document IP/C/W/457.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Due to pressure from developed countries,
LDCs were not able to obtain the full delay they asked for. The compromise
solution means they have a delay until 1<sup>st</sup> July 2013. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This may not be enough time for LDCs
to undertake human rights impact assessments of intellectual property rules and
draft legislation that fully takes into account all the flexibilities needed to
ensure that intellectual property rules do not undermine human rights (such as
the right to food and the right to education).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The delay is not supposed to affect
the fact that LDCs have until 2016 at least to implement patents on
pharmaceuticals, according to the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health.
It is important that LDCs fully make use of this delay and try to extend it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The TRIPS Council did not come to a
final decision on the issue of an amendment to the TRIPS Agreement
incorporating the import/export mechanism for generic medicines under
compulsory license (30 August Decision). This issue will most probably be
left unresolved until after the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Davinia<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Davinia Ovett</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Programme Officer</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>15, Rue des Savoises</span></font><span lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Switzerland</span></font><span lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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