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Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore E WIPO/GRTKF/IC/28/11 PROV. 2 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH DATE: SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore Twenty-Eighth Session Geneva, July 7 to 9, 2014 DRAFT REPORT Document prepared by the Secretariat WIPO/GRTKF/IC/28/11 Prov. 2 page 2 1. Convened by the Director General of WIPO, the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (“the Committee” or “the IGC”) held its Twenty-Eighth session (“IGC 28”) in Geneva, from July 7 to 9, 2014. 2. The following States were represented: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Holy See, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe (109). The European Union (“the EU”) and its 27 Member States were also represented as a member of the Committee. 3. The following observers were represented: Palestine, South Sudan (2). 4. The following intergovernmental organizations (“IGOs”) took part as observers: African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), African Union (AU), Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee (AALCC), Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO), Andean Community General Secretariat, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and South Centre (8). 5. Representatives of the following non-governmental organizations (“NGOs”) took part as observers: African Indigenous Women Organization; Arts Law Centre of Australia; Assembly of Armenians of Western Armenia; Associación Kunas unidos por Napguana/Association of Kunas United for Mother Earth (KUNA); Center of Multidisciplinary Studies Aymara (CEM-Amayra); Civil Society Coalition (CSC); Comisión Jurídica para el Autodesarollo de los Pueblos Originarios Andinos (CAPAJ); CropLife International; Culture of Afro-indigenous Solidarity (Afro-Indigène); EcoLomics International; Health and Environment Program (HEP); Incomindios Switzerland; Indian Council of South America (CISA); Indian Movement “Tupaj Amaru”; Indigenous Peoples’ Center for Documentation, Research and Information (doCip); Instituto Indígena Brasilero da Propriedade Intelectual (InBraPi); International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI); International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD); International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA); International Trademark Association; International Trade Center for Development (CECIDE); International Video Federation (IVF); Knowledge Ecology International (KEI); Maasai Experience; Ngà Kaiawhina a Wai 262; Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA); Solidarité pour un monde meilleur - Solidarity of a Better World (SSM); Tulalip Tribes of Washington (29). 6. The list of participants is annexed to this report. 7. Document WIPO/GRTKF/IC/28/INF/2 provided an overview of the documents distributed for the Twenty-Eighth session of the Committee. WIPO/GRTKF/IC/28/11 Prov. 2 page 3 8. The Secretariat noted the interventions made, and the proceedings of the session were communicated and recorded on webcast. This report summarizes the discussions and provides the essence of interventions, without reflecting all the observations made in detail or necessarily following the chronological order of interventions. 9. Mr. Wend Wendland of WIPO was Secretary to the Twenty-Eighth session of the Committee. AGENDA ITEM 1: OPENING OF THE SESSION 10. The Chair of the IGC, His Excellency Ambassador Wayne McCook from Jamaica, opened the Twenty-Eighth session of the Committee. He recognized the positive spirit that had presided over the last two sessions. He noted that the informal meetings and greetings that had preceded the present session signaled how delegations intended to continue to engage in the process fully. He urged that this spirit characterize the present session throughout. He reported that he had witnessed frequent references being made in international fora, particularly in the context of sustainable development, disaster reduction and human rights, to the issue of the handling of traditional knowledge (“TK”) and related issues. He stated that it was the responsibility of WIPO Member States not only to match the agenda of the Organization, but to realize that the Committee had been given a responsibility within the multilateral system as a whole. The Chair said that he had been the beneficiary, in such context, of most interesting interventions on the importance of addressing these matters in relation to indigenous peoples. He understood that the Committee could take up the challenge or let it fall. But it should be recognized that in no other forum was the discussion on the treatment of these matters given such focused attention and where so much reliance on a successful outcome rested. In his view, the failure of the IGC process would not just be a failure in the WIPO system, but in the international system as a whole. He thanked the WIPO Director General, Mr. Francis Gurry, for being present once again, as it had been his custom at the outset of each IGC session, to underline the systemic importance of its work. The Chair announced that the Director General would address a particular concern in relation to the WIPO Voluntary Fund and the bases on which effective participation of the indigenous peoples and local communities, as indispensable partners in the IGC process, could be ensured. 11. The Director General thanked the Chair for his introductory statement and welcomed the participants. He noted that they were numerous, and saw it as a reflection of the commitment the Member States made to the IGC, and of the importance that they attached to its process. He endorsed what the Chair had said in his introductory remarks. He found that those remarks captured the essence of the process very well. He reminded the Committee that the General Assembly (“the GA”) of September 2013 had adopted a work program, as contained in document WO/GA/43/22, comprising, first, a session on genetic resources (“GRs”) that took place from February 3 to 7, 2014 (IGC 26) and which had developed a revised version of the Consolidated Document Relating to Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/28/4) (“the GRs text”); second, a session of ten working days on TK and traditional cultural expressions (“TCEs”) that took place from March 24 to April 4, 2014 (IGC 27) and which had developed a revised version of the negotiating texts in this regard, namely “The Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Draft Articles” (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/28/5) (“the TK text”) and “The Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions: Draft Articles” (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/28/6) (“the TCEs text”). In accordance with the work program of the Committee, the present session would be a cross-cutting session of three days that would take stock of the progress made and make a recommendation to the September 2014 GA. Furthermore, it had been decided by the Committee at its Twenty-Sixth and Twenty-Seventh sessions that the revised texts be transmitted to the GA taking place in September 2014, “subject to any agreed adjustments or modifications WIPO/GRTKF/IC/28/11 Prov. 2 page 4 arising on cross-cutting issues at the Twenty-Eight session of the IGC in accordance with the IGC’s mandate for 2014-2015 and the work program for 2014 as contained in document WO/GA/43/22.” The Director General referred to other working documents: a “Joint Recommendation on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge” (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/28/7) that was co-sponsored by the Delegations of Canada, Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea and the United States of America; a “Joint Recommendation on the Use of Databases for the Defensive Protection of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources” (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/28/8), co-sponsored by the Delegations of Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United States of America; and, a “Proposal for the Terms of Reference for the Study by the WIPO Secretariat on Measures Related to the Avoidance of the Erroneous Grant of Patents and Compliance with Existing Access and Benefit-Sharing Systems” (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/28/9), co-sponsored by the Delegations of Canada, Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States of America. He referred as well to the document entitled “Participation of Indigenous and Local Communities:
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