[A2k] WIPO Development Agenda -surprising news

[Gwen Hinze]

The dialogue was as I pasted below.

The question was asked and the answer was provided in a meeting of the
WIPO Member States, intergovernmental organizations and accredited non-
governmental organizations in the Committee on Development and IP, in
the presence of representatives of the WIPO Secretariat.


Gwen Hinze
On Nov 19, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Jeffrey A. Williams wrote:

> Gwen and all,
>
>  Just out of curiosity did the legal offices staff person
> offer any explanation as to why no report was done or is
> forthcomming?  Secondly was this same staff person ask
> specifically why they were not complying with UN article
> 6 as you indicated below?  Has the UN secretariat been
> formally or informally notified that the WIPO legal staff
> and/or those otherwise responsible withing WIPO are failing
> to comply with Artyicle 6 requirements?
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gwen Hinze <gwen@eff.org>
>> Sent: Nov 19, 2009 6:14 AM
>> To: Gwen Hinze <gwen@eff.org>
>> Cc: a2k discuss list <a2k@lists.essential.org>, The Public Voice <coalition@mailman.thepublicvoice.org
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [A2k] WIPO Development Agenda -surprising news
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Clarification and some additional information on this.
>>
>> The context is discussion of paragraph 8 of a proposal from the
>> delegations of Algeria, Brazil and Pakistan, supported by India,
>> on a
>> mechanism for coordination within WIPO of implementation of the
>> Development Agenda. Paragraph 8 of that proposal requires WIPO to
>> provide a report on Development Agenda implementation (presumably
>> part
>> of its annual report) to the UN, in accordance with WIPO's obligation
>> to provide an annual report to the UN under Article 6 of the 1974 UN-
>> WIPO Agreement (the agreement under which WIPO became a specialist
>> body of the UN).
>>
>> Here are my notes of the dialogue that took place this in the
>> morning's CDIP session:
>>
>> Question from delegate of France to female member of WIPO's Legal
>> Counsel's Office:
>>
>> I think I addressed another question to the Secretariat yesterday
>> about paragraph 8. On Article 6 of the UN-WIPO Agreement, what is the
>> current status of implementation of this obligation? Are annual
>> reports provided?
>>
>> Legal Counsel's Office staff person: At present, no. No such report
>> is
>> being made to the UN.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 19, 2009, at 2:56 AM, Gwen Hinze wrote:
>>
>>> At this morning' session of the WIPO CDIP 4, legal counsel from
>>> WIPO's
>>> Office of Legal Counsel just stated that WIPO is not in compliance
>>> with its obligation to report to the UN under Article 6 of the 1974
>>> UN-
>>> WIPO Agreement.
>>>
>>> <http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/agreement/index.html>
>>>
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>
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