Brussels, 03/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - Brazil's head of mission to the EU, Jose Alfredo Graca Lima, has approached the European Trade Policy Commissioner Peter Mandelson to ask for Brazil to be removed from the list of 'priority countries' responsible for violating intellectual property rights. Brazil claims that the statistics used to draw up the list are out of date (dating back to 2001, see Europe of November 11, pp. 9/10). Since then, Brazil has successfully stepped up its efforts to...