AGENDA ITEM 4: MONITOR, ASSESS, DISCUSS, REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ALL DA RECOMMENDATIONS




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AGENDA ITEM 1: OPENING OF THE SESSION
6 The Chair opened the 12th session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP). He stated that the Committee played a unique role within WIPO in shaping the idea of development and Intellectual Property (IP) into concrete actions and achievements. Its diligent work towards the implementation of the 45 Development Agenda (DA) Recommendations had paved the way to a lasting change within WIPO, with countries sharing a common vision on IP and development issues. He added that the current session of the Committee was particularly important as it would deal with issues of critical importance. These included the Independent Review of the Implementation of the DA Recommendations, the International Conference on IP and Development and the recent General Assembly decision on CDIP-related matters. He called upon delegations to continue working in a spirit of consensus, and sought their cooperation and goodwill for the meeting to be conducted in a time efficient and constructive manner. As the present session would take place during four days, he referred to his suggestion at the informal briefing meeting held on October 28 and informed delegations that general statements would not be made during the session. However, any written statement provided by Group Coordinators to the Secretariat could be made available upon request. All statements by Group Coordinators and by individual delegations would be included in the final report of the session. The process for preparing the Summary by the Chair would remain the same. A decision paragraph would be read out after the discussion on a document or issue had concluded. The summary would be a compilation of those paragraphs only. It would be brief and to the point. Therefore, the Chair requested delegations to refrain from introducing new elements which were not critically important. He wished the Committee a successful and productive session and invited the Director General to address the Committee.
7 The Director General welcomed delegations to the session. He noted that the large turnout indicated a continued interest in the subject matter, in particular, the WIPO DA and its effective implementation. Considerable progress had been made in the implementation of the DA recommendations. The Committee had approved 27 projects with a total budget of 25.5 million Swiss francs. A considerable number of projects had been successfully concluded and were evaluated by the Committee. That mechanism had worked extremely well with the supervision of the Committee. In this regard, he thanked, in particular, delegations who had put forward project proposals, namely the African Group, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Japan and the Republic of Korea. A number of projects had far reaching effects and achievements. The Project on Start-up Academies had acted as a catalyzer for a lot of actions at the national level in quite a significant number of countries. Similarly, the Project on the Enhancement of WIPO's Results Based Management (RBM) framework had been taken up by a number of regional offices to establish or improve their RBM frameworks. The Project on the Establishment and Development of Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) had extremely strong demand. There were some very interesting and significant results. The Director General then turned to the forward agenda and noted that WIPO’s contribution to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was an extremely important subject. WIPO joined the MDG Gap Task Force and participated in its meeting on February 7, 2013. It contributed, in particular, to providing information on discussions related to the item concerning access to essential and affordable medicines and IP rights. The Organization would continue to contribute appropriately in terms of providing information to the work of the task force, to which it had become an observer. In the current session of the Committee, Member States would discuss a document on the Measurement of the MDGs in other UN agencies and WIPO’s contribution to the MDGs. The document included a compilation of the practices by which other UN agencies, in particular, other specialized agencies, measured their contribution to the MDGs. It also contained a brief report on WIPO's contributions to the MDGs. The Director General then referred to the issue of flexibilities and informed the Committee that the WIPO website had been updated to provide resources on the work that was taking place within the Organization. The website had generally been updated and should be a much better tool for accessing information. Work on the renovation of the website had not been completed because it must descend to multiple layers of content. However, it was believed to be a significant improvement. The new website was an expression of “responsive design”, i.e. the presentation of content was adjusted to various devices used to access the website. Any feedback from delegations on the new website would be welcomed. With regard to flexibilities, the information resources had been updated and work was ongoing on the subject matter which was discussed in depth during the 7th and 10th sessions of the CDIP. The Secretariat was requested to undertake further work on the scope of exclusion from patentability of plants (TRIPS Article 27) and flexibilities with respect to the patentability or exclusion from patentability of software-related inventions. Work was ongoing and the results would be presented in future sessions. In addition to the MDGs, there were other very important items on the agenda for the current session. These included the recent decision of the WIPO General Assembly (GA) on CDIP Related Matters; the Independent Review of the Implementation of DA recommendations in accordance with the Coordination Mechanism; the International Conference on IP and Development; and the External Review of WIPO Technical Assistance in the area of cooperation for development. While concluding, the Director General assured delegations of the keen willingness of the Secretariat to implement decisions by Member States in these areas and wished them very successful deliberations under the able and wise guidance of the Chair.
8 The Chair informed the Committee that the schedule of work for the session had been made available. An informal meeting would be held in the afternoon to discuss how the discussions on the GA's decision, the International Conference on IP and Development and the Independent Review would be structured. The Chair turned to Agenda Item 2 on the adoption of the Agenda.



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