Search results « trips plus »
-
27-Jul-2016 Occupy FTA
Written opinion on RCEP to South Korean Government and request for a face-to-face meeting and public hearings
The Korean negotiators failed to abide by the free and fair trade principle and negotiate RCEP in a way that violates treaties on trade and the generally accepted international laws and regulations.
-
30-Jun-2013 South Centre
Investment agreements: A new threat to health and TRIPS flexibilities?
Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) may be a threat to access to medicines as shown by a recent legal suit by a drug multinational against Canada for invalidating a patent, writes Carlos Correa
-
11-Feb-2008 ANU
TRIPS, bilateralism and patents: how they are failing both the developed and the developing world and what to do about it
Luigi Palombi discusses TRIPS, post-TRIPS bilateralism and patents in the context of biological resources and traditional knowledge and seeks to provide a solution to the present intellectual property deadlock between the developed and developing worlds.
-
21-Sep-2005
Data Exclusivity - Its Interpretation and India
The Intellectual Property Regime in India is in the final stages of ensuring compliance with the standards agreed in the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (‘TRIPS’).
-
26-Aug-2009 Health Affairs
A Trade Agreement’s Impact On Access To Generic Drugs
The Central America Free Trade Agreement has kept some generic drugs from Guatemala even though they’re available in the United States.
-
20-Sep-2021 A l’encontre
Les sociétés transnationales et le Covid-19. Droits de propriété intellectuelle versus droits de l’homme
Les sociétés transnationales s’appuient aujourd’hui plus que jamais sur les droits de propriété intellectuelle pour structurer leurs chaînes de valeur mondiales, explique Peter Rossman
-
12-Feb-2024 The Fiji Times
PACER Plus review
The Fijian Government, with Australian and New Zealand officials, will be reviewing the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations Plus (PACER Plus) which was not ratified by the previous administration.
-
8-Jun-2022 Bon Pote
Traité sur la Charte de l’énergie : le traité qui va tuer l’Accord de Paris
Le traité sur la Charte de l’énergie est un accord multilatéral qui permet aux investisseurs étrangers d’exiger jusqu’à plusieurs milliards d’euros des Etats en compensation de l’impact négatif de changements de législation.
-
20-Nov-2020 The Conversation
La Chine au cœur de la plus grande zone de libre-échange de la planète
La géoéconomie asiatique, polarisée sur la Chine, demeurera longtemps un facteur stratégique des recompositions de l’ordre international.
-
6-Feb-2019 CADTM
Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine : Quel panafricanisme ? (Partie 2/3)
En cas d’entrée en vigueur de cet accord les conséquences risquent, à cause des particularités de l’insertion de l’Afrique dans la civilisation capitaliste mondiale, d’être parmi les pires de la vague libre-échangiste.
-
26-Apr-2018 Scoop
Pacific economic ministers cautioned on NZ’s PACER-Plus view
PACER-Plus will undermine the right of governments to regulate, and see the Pacific bear the burden of binding commitments in the areas of interest to Australia and New Zealand whilst getting little legal commitments in return.
-
22-Dec-2017 IISD
Conférence de haut-niveau de la CNUCED sur les AII : poursuivre l’examen des Accords internationaux d’investissement d’ancienne génération
Plus de 300 experts, notamment des négociateurs de haut-niveau d’accords internationaux d’investissement et des représentants d’organisations intergouvernementales, de la société civile ainsi que des secteurs universitaires et privés se sont réunis à Genève
-
9-Jun-2016 Xalima
Les APE ou la recolonisation de l’Afrique
Depuis l’année 2002, l’Union Européenne est en négociation avec ses 79 partenaires des pays d’Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique (ACP) à l’effet de conclure des accords de Partenariat Economique (APE).
-
7-Dec-2015 PANG
PACER Plus bad for business
New brief says Regional trade agreement bad for business.
-
8-Jul-2009 Islands Busines
Australia’s getting the plus in PACER
Out of the nine resolutions made by trade ministers in the Pacific at their meeting in Samoa last month, seven were said to be concessions to their bigger neighbours of Australia and New Zealand.
-
21-Nov-2024 ITPC Global
Thai and Swiss civil society unite to protect access to medicines and the Universal Health Coverage Scheme
Civil society groups in Thailand and Switzerland are urging the Thai government to maintain its stance against TRIPS+ provisions, which exceed the requirements of the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Agreement. These groups argue that such provisions could significantly increase the cost of medicines and limit access for the Thai population.
-
10-Dec-2008
Intellectual property in free trade agreements
FTAs often include intellectual property protection that is stronger than the World Trade Organisation requires (known as ‘TRIPS-plus’ protection). This book highlights the likely effects on developing countries of agreeing to these TRIPS-plus provisions, particularly those in US FTAs.
-
20-Mar-2004
TRIPS-plus through EFTA’s backdoor
The Free Trade Agreements concluded between the four member states of the European Free Trade Association ¬(EFTA) - Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein - and a number of developing countries contain provisions on the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) which go far beyond the obligations already imposed on these countries in the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
-
17-Mar-2004
Regional and bilateral treaties and a TRIPS-plus world: the Free Trade Area of the Americas
In these issues papers, authors are invited to examine a subject of importance in the developing international intellectual property regime and highlight key issues they see arising. The topics have been chosen following consultations with negotiators from developing countries, and respond to their concerns.
-
23-Jul-2008 Jamaica Observer
Intellectual property in the EPA: broad scope, huge impact - Part III
Article 149 requires the EC Party and the Signatory CARIFORUM states to provide for the protection of plant varieties in accordance with the TRIPS Agreement and to consider, in this connection, accession to UPOV, 1991.