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15 November 2018
WTO members negotiating a proposed agreement to tackle harmful fisheries subsidies held a second cluster of meetings last week as part of their September-December work programme, hearing reports about brainstorming sessions in “incubator groups” the week before and completing the streamlining of a...
8 November 2018
En la era de la inteligencia artificial, los cambios en el mercado creativo revelan la necesidad de reformular las normas de derecho de autor que rigen el sector. ¿Cuáles son los principales retos para el diseño de estas normas a nivel internacional?
7 November 2018
25 years of access and benefit sharing in international treaties and national laws have not yielded the expected results nor satisfied the expectations of many countries. We must rethink genetic resources as (natural) information and not as tangible, material resources. Applying the economics of...
27 October 2018
Пути укрепления и модернизации ВТО обсудили министры и главы делегаций ряда стран и ЕС на встрече в Оттаве 24–25 октября 2018 года. По результатам переговоров они подписали совместное коммюнике . Министры и главы делегацией 13 членов ВТО (Австралии, Бразилии, ЕС, Канады, Кении, Мексики, Новой...
23 October 2018
Intellectual property enforcement, which describes a weighing and balancing process for the implementation of intellectual property rights, is a priority issue in the international agenda. National authorities can adjust international norms on intellectual property enforcement as to guarantee an...
27 September 2018
The WTO’s agriculture negotiations resumed last week after the organisation’s annual August hiatus. While the discussions were mainly limited to reviewing negotiating submissions, analysis, and data, some sources indicated that the level of engagement seemed noticeably improved from recent meetings...
5 September 2018
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a great threat to the sustainability of oceans and marine ecosystems. For World Trade Organization disciplines on IUU fishing to be effective, there is a need to look beyond the lists of regional fisheries management organisations to determine...
Redesigning global copyright for inclusive innovation and trade in an era of disruptive technologies
3 September 2018
The new technological frontier suggests that a more radical conception of global copyright norms will be necessary to preserve, and even advance, public benefit in the era of digital trade. A profound challenge for copyright and information policy in a world of digital trade is how the technical...
2 August 2018
The WTO is due to hold its next ministerial conference in June 2020 in Astana, Kazakhstan, after the General Council formally endorsed the Central Asian country’s bid as host last week. The global trade club is due to have a busy agenda, both on the negotiating front and in various other...