[Ip-health] Final PCDA Recommendations to 2007 General Assembly

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

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Final PCDA Recommendations to 2007 General Assembly
June 18th, 2007 by Thiru Balasubramaniam

PCDA Recommendations to 2007 General Assembly

(As adopted 9:38 pm June 15, 2007)


The PCDA decided to make the following recommendations to the 2007
General Assembly:

1. To adopt the recommendations for action in the agreed proposals
contained in the Annex;

2. To immediately implement the recommendations contained in the list
submitted by the Chair of the PCDA, in accordance with paragraph X of
the Report of the Fourth Session of the PCDA;

3. A Committee on Development and IP be established immediately to:

a. develop a work-program for implementation of the adopted
recommendations;

b. monitor, assess, discuss and report on the implementation of all
recommendations adopted, and for that purpose it shall coordinate with
relevant WIPO bodies;

c. discuss IP and development related issues as agreed by the
Committee, as well as those decided by the General Assembly.

4. The Committee will be composed of the Member States of WIPO and open
to the participation of all accredited intergovernmental and non
governmental organizations. It will consider and adopt rules of
procedure based on the WIPO General Rules of Procedure at its first
meeting, which will be convened in the first half of 2008. The number
and duration of meetings of the Committee are to be decided by the
General Assembly.

5. For the first meeting of the Committee, the present Chair of the
PCDA is requested to prepare initial working documents, including a
draft work program in consultation with Member States and the
Secretariat. The draft work program should address, inter alia, the
financial and human resources requirements for inclusion in WIPO=92s
budgetary planning process.

6. The Committee will report and may make recommendations annually to
the General Assembly.

7. The PCIPD shall cease to exist and the mandate of the PCDA will not
be renewed.



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Thiru Balasubramaniam
Geneva Representative
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
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