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WORLD TRADE IP/C/W/12/Add.1
11September 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-2566)
Original: English Council forTrade-Related Aspects
ofIntellectual Property Rights
TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES: INFORMATION FROM
DEVELOPED COUNTRY MEMBERS
Addendum
NewZealand
Atitsmeeting of24May1995, theCouncil forTRIPS agreed toinvite eachdeveloped country
Member toprovide information onitstechnical andfinancial cooperation programmes intheareaof
intellectual property relevant totheimplementation oftheTRIPS Agreement (IP/C/M/2, paragraph 53).
Bymeans ofacommunication from thePermanent Mission ofNew Zealand, dated
21August1995,theGovernmentofNewZealandhassubmitted,inresponse,informationonitstechnical
andfinancial cooperation programmes. Thisaddendum reproduces thisinformation.
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TECHNICAL COOPERATION ONTRIPS
INFORMATION FROM NEW ZEALAND
1. Inaccordance withArticle 67oftheTRIPS Agreement, theCouncil forTRIPS hasrequested
thatdeveloped country Members provide adescription oftheirtechnical andfinancial cooperation
programmes intheareaofintellectual property rights relevant totheimplementation oftheTRIPS
Agreement.
2. NewZealanddoesnotcurrentlyhaveaspecificprogrammeoftechnicalandfinancialcooperation
intheareaofintellectual property rights.
3. NewZealand could, however, consider requests forbilateral assistance intheareaofintellectual
property rights fromdeveloping countries bothwithrespect tospecific intellectual property rights or
withrespect toprojects where thedevelopment ofintellectual property rights ispartofamore
comprehensive project. Suchrequests maybeinthecontext ofbilateral development assistance and,
inparticular, regional development assistance programmes which NewZealand currently operates.
These programmes arestrongly focused ontheSouth Pacific andSouth, South EastandNorth East
Asia. Alternatively, NewZealand assistance canbemade available under multilateral agency auspices.
4. AnexampleofthetypeofbilateraldevelopmentassistanceforwhichNewZealandcouldconsider
requests would beforindividuals tospend afewdaysinnewZealand 'sPlant Variety Rights Office
and/or thePatents, Trademarks andDesigns Office forfamiliarization withthewayinwhich these
offices operate.
5. NewZealand notes thatithashadasmall number ofrequests inthepast,bothofabilateral
andmultilateral nature, toassist intheareaofthedevelopment ofintellectual property rights andhas
responded positively tothese requests. Examples ofthistypeofassistance arethatNewZealand has
recently completed abilateral tradeassistance project onplantvariety rights and,in1991, jointly hosted
withWIPO aSouth Pacific industrial property licensing seminar.