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Rethinking compulsory licensing for export: WTO members hold informal consultations on Paragraph 6 implementation
Submitted by thiru on 12. February 2010 - 5:59Friday, 12 February 2010
Around 100 Members of the World Trade Organization attended informal consultations today in Room E (a mainstay of the green room consultations) to discuss the implementation of Paragraph 6 mechanism which was created to be an "an expeditious solution" for "WTO members with insufficient or no manufacturing capacities in the pharmaceutical sector" that faced difficulties in in "making effective use of compulsory licensing under the TRIPS Agreement".
