[A2k] WCO setting new IP enforcement standards

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The World Customs Organisation: Setting New Standards of Intellectual
Property Enforcement through the Back Door?
Viviana Munoz Tellez

http://www.southcentre.org/southbulletin/Issue13-16April.pdf

The World Customs Organization (WCO) is currently dwelling deep into the
realm of international intellectual property and trade norm-setting. It is

developing and actively promoting voluntary international standards and
model laws that exceed those established by the Agreement on Trade Related

Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

The third meeting of the SECURE Working Group will be held on April 24 and

25, 2008 in Brussels with the aim of finalizing the draft text on new
standards on intellectual property enforcement. These would then be
presented to the WCO Policy Commission and Council in June 2008 for
consideration and adoption as WCO IPR standards.