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The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health was adopted by the WTO Ministerial Conference of 2001 in Doha on November 14, 2001. It reaffirmed flexibility of TRIPS (trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights) member states in circumventing patent rights for better access to essential medicines .
The Doha Declaration on Public Health sought to alleviate developing country dissatisfaction with aspects of the TRIPS regime. It delayed the implementation of patent system provisions for pharmaceutical products for least developed countries (LDCs) until 2016. The declaration committed member states to interpret and implement the agreement to ...
Doha conference can refer to several meetings held in Doha, Qatar: The WTO Ministerial Conference of 2001. leading to the Doha Development Round; and the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health; 2008 follow-up conference to the Monterrey Consensus; Doha Agreement (2008) between rival Lebanese factions; Hamas–Fatah Doha ...
In 2001, developing countries, concerned that developed countries were insisting on an overly narrow reading of TRIPS, initiated a round of talks that resulted in the Doha Declaration. The Doha declaration is a WTO statement that clarifies the scope of TRIPS, stating for example that TRIPS can and should be interpreted in light of the goal "to ...
The Doha Development Round or Doha Development Agenda (DDA) is the trade-negotiation round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which commenced in November 2001 under then director-general Mike Moore. Its objective was to lower trade barriers around the world, and thus increase global trade.
WTO Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Members adopted a Ministerial Declaration on the WTO's response, including a temporary waiver of certain intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccine production. This aimed to accelerate vaccine production and access, particularly in developing countries.
The Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) negotiations of the World Trade Organization are based on the Doha Declaration of 2001 that calls for a reduction or elimination in tariffs, particularly on exportable goods of interest to developing countries. NAMA covers manufacturing products, fuel and mining products, fish and fish products, and ...
The declaration of the "MC4 in Doha", named for the Qatari capital has provided the mandate for negotiations on a number of issues on agriculture, concerning the implementation of the agreements which had to be completed in 2000 originally. However, the declaration set 1 January 2005 as the deadline for completing all but two of the agreements.