DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
March 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union has proposed reforms to the World Trade Organisation's trade related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) agreement that would enable developing countries with no domestic drug production to gain access to essential medicines. At a meeting of TRIPS council, Brussels proposed an amendment allowing the importing council to licence manufacture of medicines in another country, in case of an emergency. Talks on the issue of generic drugs have so far often concentrated on developing countries that have pharmaceutical ...
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