TRIPS PLAN
May 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union has launched a plan to break the World Trade Organisation deadlock over changes to its TRIPS regime (trade related aspects of intellectual property rights), which would allow developing countries to licence imported generic drugs in emergencies, while protecting the global pharmaceutical sector.Brussels' proposals would enable a foreign supplier to fill orders based on a compulsory licence, which could be issued by a poor country government in specified circumstances. Said EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy: "We must find a ...
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