RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONIP/C/W/324/Add.5
25 March 2002
(02-1529)
Council for Trade-Related Aspects
of Intellectual Property RightsOriginal:  English
REVIEW OF LEGISLATION
Response from Sri Lanka to the follow-up question posed by Switzerland
Addendum
By means of a communication from the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka, dated
13 March 2002, the Secretariat has received the following response to the follow-up question posed
by Switzerland, circulated in document IP/C/W/3 15/Add.1.  This question follows up Sri Lanka's
responses to initial questions, circulated in document IP/C/W/324.
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A. PROTECTION OF UNDISCLOSED INFORMATION
Ad response to question 5:
Referring to the issue of unfair commercial use of data submitted by an applicant to the
responsible State Agency in the procedure for market authorization of a pharmaceutical or of
an agricultural chemical product, please speci fy whether the responsible State Agency will
require the same amount of data from a second  applicant requesting market authorization for a
similar or identical product as from the first applicant.
Yes.
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