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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8758

30 July 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Pascal Lamy comments on time taken for EU to transpose WTO decision on access by developing countries to generic medicines

Brussels, 29/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - In a letter sent to Pascal Lamy on 9 July, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and his colleagues for development and trade, Hilary Benn and Patricia Hewitt, expressed their concern about the time it has taken for the EU to implement the WTO decision of August 2003 authorising derogation to the intellectual property rules, in order to facilitate access by developing countries to generic medicines for several serious diseases. The long time taken is...

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