Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 28

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Reaffirms the right to use to the full the provisions contained in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, the Doha Declaration on the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health, the decision of the World Trade Organization General Council of 30 August 2003 on the implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration and, when formal acceptance procedures are completed, the amendment to article 31 of the Agreement, which provide flexibilities for the protection of public health and, in particular, to promote access to medicines for all, and encourage the provision of assistance to developing countries in this regard; and calls for a broad and timely acceptance of the amendment to article 31 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, as proposed by the World Trade Organization General Council in its decision of 6 December 2005;
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Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on Population and Development
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Resolution
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Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
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  • N.A.
Year
2010
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OP
Reference
CPD resolution, Health, morbidity, mortality and development (2010), OP 28.
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OP
Paragraph number
28