./.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/INF/17
22 November 1999
(99-5062)
NOTE BY THE SECRETARIAT
In accordance with the Guidelines for Arrangements on Relations With Non-Governmental
Organizations (WT/L/162) and as a follow-up to the Director-General's recent initiatives on greater
transparency and an enhanced dialogue with NGOs, the list of NGO Position Papers received by the
Secretariat is circulated for the information of Members.
Interested delegations that wish to consult these documents in more detail are requested to
contact Mrs. Susan Barbier, ext. 5677, in the External Relations Division.
The NGO Position Papers listed below were received before 19 November 1999.
WTO Agricultural Negotiating Objectives
(English only)American Farm Bureau Federation
Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures
(English only)American Lands Alliance
AIPPI and the TRIPS Agreement Position Papers
UPOV 1961 – 1978 – 1991
Parallel ImportAppellations of Origin/Geographical Indications
Early Publication
Transfer of Technology
Genetic Material (and microbiology)
First-to-FileBiodiversity / Bioavailablity
Compulsory License
TRIPS and its Enforcement
(English only)Association Internationale pour la Protection de
la Propriété Industrielle (AIPPI)
Developing Countries and the Millennium Round
of the World Trade Organisation – A compelling
case for full participation.
(English only)Commonwealth Business Council
Consumers Union urges WTO Ministers to
refocus trade organization on concerns of
consumers and democracy
(English only)Consumers Union
FEVS Priorities for the Millennium Round
(French only)Fédération des exportateurs de vins et spiritueux
de France (FEVS)
FIVS Priorities for New WTO Round(English only)International Federation of Wines and Spirits
(FIVS)WT/INF/17
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Open Letter from World Scientists to all
Governments and press release about GM crops
and products
(English only)
Why Patents on Life-forms and Living Processes
Should be Rejected from TRIPS – Scientific
Briefing on TRIPS Article 27.3(b)
(English only)Institute of Science in Society
submitted by Third World Network
Open Letter to WTO Member Countries onTRIPS and Access to Health Care Technology
(English only)Médecins Sans Frontières and Health Action
International
Loaded against the poor
(English only)OXFAM
Seattle Round Agricultural Committee (SRAC)
1999 WTO Policy Statement(English only)Seattle Round Agricultural Committee (SRAC)
Electronic Commerce: Issues for the South
(English only)
Intellectual Property Rights and the use of
Compulsory Licenses: Options for Developing
Countries(English only)South Centre
Statement by the Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom To the Third Ministerial
Meeting of the World Trade Organization,
Seattle, Washington 30 November to 3 December
1999.
(English only)Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom
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