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... Desiring
to reduce distortions and impediments to international trade, and
taking into account the need to promote effective and adequate
protection of intellectual property rights, and to ensure that
measures and procedures to enforce intellectual property rights do
not themselves become barriers to legitimate trade; ...
... 2. Amendments
merely serving the purpose of adjusting to higher levels of
protection of intellectual property rights achieved, and in force, in
other multilateral agreements and accepted under those agreements by
all Members of the WTO may be referred to the Ministerial Conference
for action in accordance with paragraph 6 of Article X of the
WTO Agreement on the basis of a consensus proposal from the Council
for TRIPS.
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