(de momento solamente en inglés)
Background volver al principio
- Countries with insufficient or no manufacturing capacities are naturally reliant on imports from foreign suppliers.
- When medicines are produced under a compulsory licence in another country, TRIPS in effect limited the proportion that could be exported.
- TRIPS therefore posed a potential barrier if a country lacked its own production capacity and wished to import medicines from another country where a patent was in force and where a compulsory licence was needed for production.
Paragraph 6 System volver al principio
The “Paragraph 6 System” is the name commonly given to the system set up by the WTO to address this problem by creating a new form of compulsory licence specifically for the export of medicines (see further background information). The use of this special compulsory licence requires formal notification to the WTO. There are three types of notification:
1. importing member’s one-off general notification of intention to use the Paragraph 6 System (not required for least-developed country members);
2. importing member’s specific notification of the details of the needed pharmaceutical products and other details required under the Paragraph 6 System
3. exporting member’s notification of grant of a compulsory licence for export and conditions attached to it.
Notifications volver al principio
Notifications can be signed by any authorized government official. They are made for transparency purposes, and do not need to be approved by a WTO body in order for a member to use the System.
Notifications can be signed by any authorized government official. They are made for transparency purposes, and do not need to be approved by a WTO body in order for a member to use the System.
Notifications are sent to the WTO Council for TRIPS through the WTO Secretariat. They can be sent by post (see models for postal address) or fax to +41 22 739 5790, with a copy by email to crn@wto.org with a copy to ipd@wto.org. The WTO Secretariat will circulate the notification to other Members of the Council for TRIPS and the Chairperson will bring it to the attention at the next meeting. The notifications will be circulated as formal WTO documents in series IP/N/8, 9 or 10 and will also be made available publicly by the WTO Secretariat here.
The following model notifications are provided for illustrative purposes only as an aid to technical assistance, and are prepared without prejudice to WTO members’ rights and obligations under the WTO agreements. As illustrative guides only to what is to be notified, they do not have any legal or procedural status.
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