Information for Persons Making Submissions
Submissions in relation to this discussion paper are invited from any person interested in the issues relating to the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, and the resulting Protocol to amend the TRIPS Agreement.
Submissions will be considered in the development of recommendations to the government on these issues, and any resulting legislative amendments.
To aid respondents in making submissions, questions for discussion appear at the end of this paper.
Submissions should be sent to:
Doha TRIPS Protocol Submissions
Attention: Warren Hassett
Competition, Trade and Investment Branch
Ministry of Economic Development
PO Box 1473
WELLINGTON
E-mailed submissions are also welcome (preferably in Word or PDF format) and should be sent to:
patentsbill@med.govt.nz
Submissions may be subject to disclosure under the Official Information Act 1982. Persons making submissions that include commercially or otherwise sensitive material that they wish the Ministry to withhold under that Act should clearly identify the relevant information and the applicable grounds under which the Ministry could withhold the information.
The closing date for submissions is 14 December 2007.
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