Answer Bilateral trade agreements, which in reality are preferential trade agreements have to comply with the various rules which all WTO Members have subscribed about this sort of agreement. They must be notified in most cases, and are open to peer review. Thats the theory. In reality there is a serious backlog in the examaination of these agreements which we could only cope with with more resources, which we do not have at the moment.
Question: Señor Lamy, las miradas de muchos países en desarrollo están puestas en la fecha del próximo 30 de abril, ¿considera usted que esa fecha puede ser la de la decepcion o la del inicio del exito de la etapa final de la Ronda de soha?
Answer Todos tenemos las miradas puestas en abril y en julio y lo màs importante,los Miembros de la OMC están trabajando activamente para concluir la Ronda a fines del 2006. El maratón acaba de empezar. Le invito a la línea de llegada!
Question: What are - in your opinion - the changes of succes of reaching an agreement on the extention of art. 23 TRIPs on geographical indications to all products and other EC proposals (legally binding register for GIs and 41 product name 'claw back' list ?
Answer Can't really tell at this time. Negotiations on the multilateral register are being conducted in the Special session of the TRIPS Council chaired by the Pakistani ambassador, while the GI extension work is being done by my deputy, Rufus Yerxa.
Question: Recently, many countries are eager tosign FTAs.Do you think this will have the harmful effect on multilateral trading system?
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