[e-drug] NGO Conference on Technical Assistance on 28 March in Geneva

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E-drug: NGO Conference on Technical Assistance on 28 March in Geneva
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Dear All,

Please find below the provisional agenda (version 2) of the conference
      "the Implementation of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS 
Agreement and Public Health - Technical Assistance - How to get it 
right" to be held  in Geneva next week, organised by MSF, CPTech, 
Oxfam and HAI.

      If you would like to attend the meeting please register as soon as
      possible. There are only a few places left.

      There is no registration fee. To register for the conference send a
  message to: trips_health_conference@paris.msf.org with the following 
information:


      Name:
      Title:
      Affiliation:
      Postal address:
      Country:
      Telephone:
      Fax:
      E-mail:
      Website:


      You can find all the information concerning the meeting on the 
website  of the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines :
      http://www.accessmed-msf.org.


      Mai DO
      Access to Essential Medicines Campaign
      MÈdecins Sans FrontiËres
      8 rue Saint Sabin
      75544 Paris cedex 11
  MDO@paris.msf.org (Mai DO)
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      Implementation of the Doha Declaration
      on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health
      Technical assistance - How to get it right.

      28th March 2002, a one-day conference
      at the International Conference Centre of Geneva (CICG)
      15 rue de VarembÈ
      1211 Geneva, Switzerland

      Provisional agenda
      Version 2

     08:00 Registration

      08:30 Opening
      Dr. Bernard PÈcoul (Director of the Campaign for Access to 
Essential Medicines, MÈdecins sans FrontiËres)

      Keynote address
      Mr. Roberto Castelo (Deputy Director General - WIPO)
      WIPO's technical assistance and the implementation of the Doha
      Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health

      09:00 - 10:30 Panel I
      Technical assistance to ensure the implementation of the Doha
      Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health

      Chair:  Mr. Leo Palma, Advisory Centre on WTO law

      Speaker:
      Mr. Matthew Kennedy (Counsellor in the Intellectual Property 
Division  of the Secretariat of the WTO)
      Outstanding issues of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS 
agreement and  Public Health

      Panellists:

      Dr. Jonathan Quick (Director of WHO's Department of Essential 
Drugs  and Other Medicines)
      What role the WHO plays in the implementation of the Doha 
Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health?


      Mr. Francisco Pessanha Cannabrava (Second Secretary - Permanent 
Mission of Brazil to WTO and the United Nations)
  Intellectual property legislation: the needs of developing countries

      Ms. Catherine Gavin (Legal Advisor - Campaign for Access to 
Essential  Medicines, MÈdecins sans FrontiËres)
      Intellectual property law and public health in francophone Africa

  Prof. Peter Drahos (Regulatory Institutions Network (Regnet) -
      invited)
  Does WIPO's mandate to promote intellectual property protection" 
stand  in the way of providing appropriate technical assistance

      10:30-11:00 Coffee break
        11:00-12:30  Panel II
      Developing countries perspectives on technical assistance;
      What technical assistance on the question of production for export?

      Chair:  Ms. Celine Charveriat (OXFAM)

      Speaker:
      Prof. Carlos Correa (University of Buenos Aires - invited)
      What needs to be done to implement ß6 and ß7 of the Doha 
Declaration  on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health?

      Panellists:
      Ambassador B. G. Chidyausiku (Permanent Representative - 
Permanent Mission of Zimbabwe to the United Nations and WTO)
      Technical assistance to implement the Doha Declaration on the 
TRIPS  agreement and Public Health: what are the needs?

      Mr. Pornchai Danvivathana  (Minister Counsellor - Permanent 
Mission of  Thailand to WTO)
      What are the needs for technical assistance, from an Asian 
developing  country's perspective?

      Ms. Cecilia Oh (Third World Network)
      Intellectual property protection in developing countries

      Mr. D.G. Shah  (Secretary General - Indian Pharmaceutical 
Alliance)  Perspectives of developing countries' generic industry

      12:30-14:00 Lunch

      14:00-15:30     Panel III
      Implementation of legislation on compulsory licensing
      Chair: Mr. Rachid Kaukab (South Centre)

      Speaker:
      Mr. James P. Love (Director - Consumer Project on Technology)
      How to build a fast, cheap, and fair procedure for issuing a
      compulsory license?


      Panellists:
      Prof. Carlos Correa (University of Buenos Aires - invited)
      What should be in a model provision for compulsory licensing?

      Dr. Eric Noehrenberg ( Director -Intellectual Property and Trade 
Issues - IFPMA)
      The industry's position on compensation models for compulsory
      licensing

      Mr. Dominic Keating (Intellectual Property AttachÈ - US Mission 
to the  WTO)
      What is the US practice in terms of procedure for governmental use?

Mr. Christopher Garrison (Legal Advisor - Campaign for Access to
      Essential Medicines, MÈdecins sans FrontiËres)
      Models of compulsory licensing and governmental use

      15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

      16:00 - 17:30     Panel IV
      Recommendations for technical assistance
      Chair: Ms. Ellen 't Hoen, (Coordinator Globalisation Project -
Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, MÈdecins sans FrontiËres)

      Speaker:
      Dr. Christian Wichard (Senior Legal Officer - WIPO Arbitration 
and  Mediation Centre)
      How to apply the lessons from the WIPO's alternative dispute
      resolution procedures to compulsory licensing or to other patent
      disputes?

      Panellists:
      Prof. Fred Abbott (Florida State University)
      What can be learnt from alternative dispute resolution procedures?

      Mr. Pedro Roffe (Project Director - Office of the Secretary-General of
      UNCTAD )
      The need to adapt intellectual property systems in developing
      countries

      Mr. Falou Samb (Mission of Senegal to WTO - invited)
      The developing countries perspectives on the practical 
implementation   of ß6 and ß7

      Mr. Otto Genee (Deputy Permanent Representative - Mission of the 
Netherlands to WTO)
      The need for a consistent WIPO and WTO policy to implement the 
Doha   Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health

      17:30 Closure of the meeting
      What are the next steps?
      Ms. Ellen 't Hoen (Coordinator Globalisation Project - Campaign 
for   Access to Essential Medicines,  MÈdecins sans FrontiËres)



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