[A2k] New Draft concerning Development Agenda

[Petra Buhr]

Hi all,

out of informal meetings yesterday there comes a new draft for a
decision the GA should take on the future of the PCDA. Text following below.

Petra
IP Justice



_*Chairman's Draft Text for Discussions*_

*Item 8: Report of the Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a
WIPO Development Agenda*


The General Assembly reviewed the positive discussions during the two
sessions of the Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO
Development Agenda (PCDA) in February and June 2006, emphasized the need
to continue discussions on the proposals submitted and placed in the six
clusters during the IIM/PCDA process, and decided as follows:

   1.

      To renew the mandate of the PCDA for another period of one year.

   2.

      The PCDA will hold [two] [three] 5-day sessions, in a manner that
      allows for structured in-debth discussions, on all proposals made
      so far on the Development Agenda for WIPO, during the sessions of
      the IIM and PCDA in 2005 and 2006, respectively.

   3.

      Also done during the sessions of the PCDA in 2006, WIPO will
      sponsor the participation of representatives from developing
      countries as well as from countries with economies in transition,
      to attend the meetings of the PCDA.

   4.

      In order to facilitate its task and streamline the process for
      detailed examination of all proposals in an inclusive manner, the
      PCDA should undertake an exercise:

      (a) to narrow down the proposals, in order to ensure that there is
      no repetition or duplication;

      (b) to seperate the proposals, which are practicable and
      actionable, from those which are declarations of general
      principles and objectives; and

      (c) to identify the proposals, which are already within the
      mandate and programs of WIPO, and suggest how they can be better
      integrated and made more effective in the work of those WIPO programs.

   5.

      The PCDA will report to the 2007 Assembly, with specific
      recommendations:

(a) for concrete action to the proposals on which there is general
agreement to move forward; and

(b) for the future process regarding the other proposals.

   6.

      In the interim, the PCIPD will cease to exist.