INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: TRIPS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Members accepting amendment of the TRIPS Agreement
WTO members on 6 December 2005 approved changes to the WTO’s intellectual property (TRIPS) agreement making permanent a decision on patents and public health originally adopted in 2003. This will now be formally built into the TRIPS Agreement when two thirds of the WTO’s members have accepted the change. They originally set themselves until 1 December 2007 to do this. The latest General Council decision of 30 November 2015 (document WT/L/965) extended the deadline to 31 December 2017.
Once two thirds of members have formally accepted it, the amendment will take effect in those members and will replace the 2003 waiver for them. For each of the remaining members: the waiver will continue to apply until that member accepts the amendment and it takes effect.
Updated: 2 October 2015
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Albania (28 January 2009)
Argentina (20 October 2011)
Australia (12 September 2007)
Bahrain (4 August 2009)
Bangladesh (15 March 2011)
Botswana (18 June 2014)
Brazil (13 November 2008)
Brunei Darussalam (10 April 2015)
Cambodia (1 November 2011)
Canada (16 June 2009)
Central African Republic (13 January 2014)
Chile (26 July 2013)
China (28 November 2007)
Colombia (7 August 2009)
Costa Rica (8 December 2011)
Croatia (6 December 2010)
Dominican Republic (23 May 2013)
Egypt (18 April 2008)
El Salvador (19 September 2006)
European Union (30 November 2007) (See text of Instrument of Acceptance)
Grenada (8 December 2015)
Honduras (16 December 2011)
Hong Kong, China (27 November 2007)
Iceland (12 October 2015)
India (26 March 2007)
Indonesia (20 October 2011)
Israel (10 August 2007)
Japan (31 August 2007)
Jordan (6 August 2008)
Kenya (21 July 2015)
Korea, Republic of (24 January 2007)
Lao People’s Democratic Republic (29 September 2015)
Lesotho (4 January 2016)
Macao, China (16 June 2009)
Malaysia (10 December 2015)
Mali (20 January 2016)
Mauritius (16 April 2008)
Mexico (23 May 2008)
Moldova, Republic of (7 July 2015)
Mongolia (17 September 2010)
Montenegro (9 September 2013)
Morocco (2 December 2008)
Myanmar (16 December 2015)
New Zealand (21 October 2011)
Nicaragua (25 January 2010)
Norway (5 February 2007)
Pakistan (8 February 2010)
Panama (24 November 2011)
Philippines (30 March 2007)
Rwanda (12 December 2011)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (27 July 2015)
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of (29 May 2012)
Senegal (18 January 2011)
Singapore (28 September 2007)
South Africa (23 February 2016)
Sri Lanka (9 September 2015)
Switzerland (13 September 2006)
Chinese Taipei (31 July 2012)
Thailand (28 January 2016)
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (16 March 2010)
Togo (13 March 2012)
Trinidad and Tobago (19 September 2013)
Turkey (14 May 2014)
Uganda (12 July 2010)
United States (17 December 2005)
Uruguay (31 July 2014)
Zambia (10 August 2009)
> How to accept the protocol amending the TRIPS Agreement: Background information for members on procedures
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