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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10406

28 June 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/india
Trade agreement - MSF unyielding on generic medicines

Brussels, 27/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - India confirmed last week at the UN summit on AIDS that the bilateral free-trade agreement it is negotiating with the EU will not include a data exclusivity clause. Since negotiations opened in 2007, India has refused to go beyond its WTO commitments in that part of the agreement which relates to trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS). India, backed by the NGO Médecins sans frontiers (MSF), fears that exclusivity might block the...

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