WORLD TRADE IP/N/5/PAN/2
29April 1998
ORGANIZATION(98-1724)
Original: Spanish Council forTrade-Related Aspects
ofIntellectual Property Rights
NOTIFICATIONS UNDER THE PROVISIONS OFTHE APPENDIX TOTHE BERNE
CONVENTION ASINCORPORATED INTO THE TRIPS AGREEMENT
Panama
Bymeans ofacommunication fromitsPermanent Mission, dated 4March 1998, thefollowing
notifications havebeenreceived from Panama.
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Notification under Article Iconcerning Articles IIandIIIoftheAppendix
Pursuant toArticle 9,paragraph 1oftheAgreement onTrade-Related Aspects ofIntellectual
Property Rights, Panama hereby notifies thatitisavailing itselfofthefaculty provided under Article I
oftheAppendix totheBerne Convention, including thefaculties referred toinArticles IIandIIIof
thesaidAppendix concerning compulsory licences totranslate andreproduce works published inprinted
oranalogous forms ofreproduction.
Notification under Article IV(2) oftheAppendix
Pursuant toArticle 9,paragraph 1oftheAgreement onTrade-Related Aspects ofIntellectual
Property Rights, Panama hereby notifies thatitisavailing itselfofthefaculty provided under Article IV,
paragraph 2oftheAppendix totheBerne Convention fortheProtection ofLiterary andArtistic Works,
andhasdesignated theNational Copyright Directorate, thecompetent national authority inthefield
ofcopyright andneighbouring rights, toserve asaninformation centre forthepurposes ofobtaining
compulsory licences.
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