Wednesday 30 May
9:00 - 12:30
Chair:
El Hadji DIOUF, International Centre for Trade
and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
- Introductionary remarks
- EPA negotiations and WTO compatibility
Resource persons:
Carolyn DEERE, ICTSD and Oxford University
- Multilateral Trends in Intellectual Property
Policy Making: an Update on the WIPO Development Agenda and
the WTO Doha Declaration
Fleur CLAESSENS,
ICTSD and David VIVAS,
ICTSD
- Current Trends in EPA Negotiations in Relation
to IPRs
Falou SAMB, International Trade Centre (ITC)
14.00 - 17.00
Chair:
Cheikh Tidiane DIEYE, Environmental Development Action in the
Third World (ENDA)
Resource person:
Dalindyebo SHABALALA,
The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
Commentator:
Ibrahima CAMARA, University of Dakar
- Increased Protection for Geographical Indications:
Potential Benefits and Costs for the ECOWAS Region
Resource Person:
Catherine GRANT,
Business Unity South Africa
Commentator:
David VIVAS, ICTSD
Thursday 31 May
9.00 - 12.00
Chair:
David Zafar AHMED, Quakers United Nations Office (QUNO)
Resource Person:
Marisella OUMA,
Kenya Copyright Board
Commentator:
John ASEIN, Nigerian Copyright Commission
Resource person:
Sisule MUSUNGU,
World Trade Institute (Bern)
Commentator:
Maurice BATANGA,
OAPI
14.00 - 17.00
Chair:
Carolyn DEERE, ICTSD and Oxford University
Working Groups
Participants will be divided into groups to
provide opportunity to express their needs. There will be Working
Groups on:
1) What are the main challenges in the EPAs
for the region?
2) What options are available?
3) What actions to take?
4) Who is responsible?
Plenary meeting for report from working groups
Conclusions by organisers
