Intellectual property: agreement on trade-related aspects of rights TRIPS, done at Geneva on 6 December 2005, amending protocol by the WTO

The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Gianluca SUSTA (ALDE, IT) on the proposal for a Council decision on the acceptance, on behalf of the European Community, of the Protocol the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) which aims to facilitate access to affordable medicines for populations in developing countries in their efforts to control diseases of public health importance, including HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. It gave its assent to the acceptance of the protocol.