Norway delivered the following statement on non-violation and situation complaints at the June 2015 meeting of the WTO TRIPS Council.
As deliveredTRIPS COUNCIL MEETING 9 AND 10 JUNE 2015
6. NON-VIOLATION AND SITUATION COMPLAINTS
Statement by Norway
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- We would like to join the overwhelming majority of members that have intervened today.
- In our view, non-violation and situation complaints should not be applicable to the TRIPS Agreement. We therefore favour a ministerial decision to this effect in Nairobi. Should no consensus on such decision be reached, the Ministerial Conference should extend the present moratorium.