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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8735

26 June 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
TRIPS has not yet achieved its goal, says Pascal Lamy, calling for global governance

Brussels, 25/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - At a conference marking the tenth anniversary of the WTO intellectual property rights agreement (TRIPS), European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said that the agreement, although it had shown its value, had not yet completely achieved its goal. He said there was still a huge gap between the declared objective of TRIPS, a world where anyone can benefit from innovation and know-how, and actual reality. (See Europe of 24 June, p. 15, on the conference...

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