Activities of Amelia ANDERSDOTTER related to 2012/2135(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on development aspects of intellectual property rights on genetic resources: the impact on poverty reduction in developing countries
Amendments (4)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Commends the Commission for presenting a draft regulation for the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol; 1 World Intellectual Property Organisation Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore 2 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights 3 Convention on Biological Diversity 4 International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture 5 International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants 6 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea calls on the Commission to instruct its negotiators in the WIPO IGC1 and the TRIPS2 review to consider the Nagoya Protocol as their point of departure and to focus in the negotiations on bringing in line the legal framework of the CBD3 and its Nagoya Protocol, WIPO, TRIPS, the ITPGRFA4 and UPOV5; notes that the TRIPS agreement transitionally excludes Least Developed Countries;6 stresses that this approach must be preserved with regards to any revisions that may result from the CBD-Nagoya process;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Agrees with industry that a rules-based international trade system requires preventing the wrongful granting of patents, which requires rules on source and origin disclosure; points out that the Nagoya Protocol obliges the parties to transpose its requirements regarding PIC1 and MAT2; stresses the need to incorporate this approach into WIPO and TRIPS in order to guarantee an international level playing fieldinsists that WTO-TRIPS should be compatible with the CBD- Nagoya Protocol, and therefore considers it crucial to establish mandatory requirements on disclosing the origin of genetic resources during patent proceedings;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises the potential role of the intellectual property and patent system in promoting innovation, transfer and dissemination of technology to the mutual advantage of stakeholders, providers, holders and users of genetic resources, their derivatives, and of associated traditional knowledge in a manner conducive to welfare and development, while emphasising the necessity of preventing the adverse effects of the IPR and patent system on indigenous peoples and local communities; 1 European Parliamreiterates that, against the background of its recent resolution of 10 May 2012 on the patenting of essentially biological processes, P7_TA(2012)0202. 1 excessively broad patent protection in the area of breeding hampers innovation and progress and may become detrimental to small and medium-sized breeders by blocking access to animal and plant genetic resources;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recognizes that the open transfer of knowledge is of fundamental importance to the global economy; expresses concern that existing rules on PIC1 and ABS2 are already seen as creating obstacles for researchers; emphasises the need to ensure that additional user obligations do not result in barriers to trade, investment or research;