August 2003 Decision Sample Clauses

August 2003 Decision. No concensus on the paragraph 6 matter was reached until the 30 August 2003 and only after a change in the EU and the US negotiation strategies.191 The decision of the General Council of 30 August 2003 (the August 2003 Decision) is a waiver from the geographical limitation of a compulsory licence192. It is also an exception from the adequate remuneration standard set out in Article 31.h of the TRIPS agreement. The decision can be seen as an instrument to globalize national, governmental authority just as the rights of the patentee have become both standardized and international. However, it was only established after the US had made sure that it could not be used by other governments to the detriment of its home industry. The order created by the decision concerns pharmaceutical products defined as “any patented product, or product manufactured through a patented process, of the pharmaceutical sector needed to address the public health problems as recognized in paragraph 1 of the Declaration”193. Active 190 TRIPS, Article 31. f. Speaks of production predominantly for the supply of the domestic market. Since it does not say for the domestic market only, there seems to be a possibility for export for the beneficiary of the compulsory licence. Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx proposes the interpretation that “[s]ome exports are permitted, but not if they constitute a main use of the compulsory license”, Xxxxxxx p. 166.‌ 191 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx: “WTO decision on implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha declaration on the TRIPS agreement and public health: a solution to the access to essential medicines problem?”, Journal of International Economic Law 7(1), 2004, p. 97-98. 192 See WTO document WT/GC/M/82, General Council - Minutes of Meeting - Held in the Centre Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx on 25, 26 and 30 August 2003, xxx.xxx.xxx. 193 WT/L/540, Implementation of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health - Decision of 30 August 2003 Article 1, xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/english/tratop_e/trips_e/implem_para6_e.htm (last visited 2004-06- 30). Article 1 of the Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and public health reads “We recognize the gravity of the public health problems afflicting many developing and least- ingredients necessary for the manufacture and diagnostic kits needed for the use of the pharmaceutical product at issue are explicitly included. The August 2003 Decision expands the ordinary notion of a compulsory license as to number of parties and geographical a...
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