IP Chapter in EU-Mercosur trade agreement

EU-Mercosur-IP-Chapter

We will add more extensive notes next week. But a few items are worth noting,including, to start, the Principals.

Article X.4
Principles

1. Each Party recognises that the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights can and must be done in a manner conducive to economic, social and scientific progress. Each Party shall ensure the enforcement of intellectual property rights within its own legal system and practice.

2. In formulating or amending its laws and regulations, each Party may establish exceptions and flexibilities permitted by the multilateral instruments to which the Parties are Signatories.

3. The Parties support the achieving of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

4. The Parties support the World Health Assembly Resolution WHA 60.28 and the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework adopted on The Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly.

5. The Parties recognise the importance of promoting the implementation of Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, adopted by the World Health Assembly on 24 of May 2008 (Resolution WHA 61.21 as amended by Resolution WHA 62.16).

6. The Parties acknowledge the Development Agenda recommendations, adopted in 2007 by the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

7. Where the acquisition of an intellectual property right is subject to the right being granted or registered, each Party shall make best efforts to ensure the procedures for granting or registration of the right are conducive to the granting or registration within a reasonable period of time so as to avoid unwarranted curtailment of the period of protection.