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22-Sep-2016 Viet Nam News
Protection of IPRs under TPP Agreement: Some challenges for Việt Nam
The issue of intellectual property (IP) in Chapter 18 and the annexes of the TPP pose many challenges for Việt Nam, in terms of both legal aspects and IPR enforcement. This article analyzes some of these challenges.
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29-Mar-2023 Devex
Hungary digs in against Europe’s Africa-Caribbean-Pacific deal
Something has to give, and it’s either Hungary, the European Union, or a decadeslong partnership between the EU and 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific states that many say has had its day.
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13-Nov-2013
Hungary supports EU-Singapore free trade agreement
Hungary has given its strong support for the early ratification of the European Union-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
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17-May-2010 Revista Semillas
Biodiversity in the FTAs with the USA and Europe: the crisis of the Andean integration process
While the Andean countries initially called for a balance to be struck between IPRs and the Andean countries’ interests – in particular education, culture, research, access to medicines, public health, food security, environmental protection, access to information, and technology transfer – Europe has insisted on measures to further entrench the intellectual property protection aspects of regional integration.
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17-Nov-2015 IATP
TPP fine print: Biotech seed companies win again
The TPP requires countries to join international patent treaties that serve the interests of global biotech seed companies.
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25-May-2016 International Press Syndicate
Asia trade deal RCEP will undercut farmers’ control over seeds
According to the latest leaked draft of the RCEP agreement, the negotiating countries fall into two camps when it comes to legal rights over biodiversity and traditional knowledge useful for food production and medicine.
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14-Apr-2008 BI-ME
Qatar and Hungary to sign economic cooperation
Hungary and Qatar are expected to sign a slew of agreements, including investment protection and double-taxation avoidance, this year to strengthen economic relations.
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21-Jul-2016 Vietnamnet Bridge
EU–VN Free Trade Agreement set to lure European SMEs to Vietnam
A delegation of 30 European pharmaceutical firms in the environment and water sectors paid a working visit to Ho Chi Minh City to research the market and explore opportunities.
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9-Mar-2010 Revista Semillas
La biodiversidad en los TLC con Estados Unidos y Europa: La crisis del proceso de integración andina
Su inclusión en los TLC andinos, significa la puesta en marcha de los procedimientos jurídicos definidos en los Acuerdos comerciales globales, para facilitar y garantizar el acceso a los recursos genéticos de la región así como la privatización de los conocimientos tradicionales a través de los sistemas de propiedad intelectual.
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7-Dec-2022 Business Recorder
Proposed BIT with Hungary: Differences emerge between BoI, ministries over proposal
There are two sticking points in the negotiations of the Pakistan-Hungary BIT: one is “Expropriation” and the other is “Subrogation”.
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17-Jun-2019 Budapest Business Journal
Hungary appeals Sodexo award with ICSID
Hungary has filed to annul an award of some EUR 73 million, before interest, to French food voucher company Sodexo, granted in an arbitration ruling by the World Bankʼs International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), state news agency MTI reported, citing case information on ICSIDʼs website.
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15-Jan-2019 Budapest Business Journal
Szijjártó meets with Belarusian counterpart in Minsk
Hungary and Belarus signed an investment protection agreement.
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1-Jun-2018 Asia Times
China’s Belt and Road a dilemma for Germany
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi tried to ease Germany’s concerns over Beijing’s cooperation with 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, which many European Union leaders consider a threat to the bloc’s integration, during his visit to Berlin on Thursday.
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1-Dec-2020 Counter Punch
Far from a change, RCEP agreement is more capitalism as usual
“It’s not as bad as the worst agreements out there” really shouldn’t be a cause for celebration.
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24-Jan-2017 Budapest Business Journal
On failing TTIP, Orbán urges new Hungary-U.S. pact
The Hungarian government is seeking to sign a “new” trade pact with the United States as the planned TTIP “will not happen”
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12-Oct-2016 GRAIN
Bocoran bab baru Persetujuan Perdagangan Asia menunjukkan RCEP akan menghilangkan penguasaan petani atas benih
Sejak Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) disetujui, masyarakat sadar adanya perjanjian perdagangan besar-besaran lain yang sedang dinegosiasikan di belakang layar di wilayah Asia-Pasifik. Seperti TPP, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) mengancam untuk meningkatkan kekuatan korporasi di negara anggota, meninggalkan masyarakat dengan sedikit celah untuk menyatakan hak atas lahan, makanan, obat-obatan, dan benih.
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24-Aug-2005 GRAIN
Bilateral agreements imposing TRIPS-plus intellectual property rights on biodiversity in developing countries
A detailed roster of FTAs and other bilateral agreements that impose "TRIPS-plus" standards with regard to biological diversity in developing countries.
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22-Sep-2004
Squire Sanders Represents Czech Republic, National Property Fund in Massive Arbitration
The Czech Republic can argue its case that Japanese investment bank Nomura is liable for billions of crowns in damage, according to an interim award issued Sept. 7 by an UNCITRAL arbitral tribunal seated in Zurich.
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27-Feb-2008
El Movimiento de Resistencia Nacional apoya la lucha de los indígenas y los agricultores contra las leyes de despojo y privatización
El MOVIMIENTO DE RESISTENCIA NACIONAL llama a todos los habitantes y a los sectores más sensibles y humanistas del país, a unirse a las actividades del plantón indígena, como muestra de la creciente necesidad de recomponer y reactivar la lucha social por nuestros derechos, la democracia y el Estado Social de Derecho, contra el TLC y más allá
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27-Feb-2008 Nacion.com
Costa Rica: Grupos campesinos e indígenas protestan frente a Sala IV
Unas 50 personas se manifestaron ayer por la mañana frente a la Corte Suprema de Justicia para rechazar la aprobación de las leyes que implementan el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con Estados Unidos, Centroamérica y República Dominicana.