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).
The
negotiations
on
Related Trade
Intellectual
Property Rights
(TRIPS)
Of Aspects
conducted under the
umbrella
of the
international
GATT Uruguay
standards
Round
on copyright
have reaffirmed the
embodied in the
Convention.
Given the growing importance of intellectual property protection in international trade, it is essential for Hong Kong to continue to comply with the standards of and promoting community international the
authors'
in
protecting
rights and, in return, to continue to enjoy the
benefits of the Convention,
Proposal
13.
The British
side proposes that the Convention and
its
revisions of 1896, 1908, 1914, 1928 and 1948 (as stated should continue to apply to the Hong Kong the Joint in accordance
in
6) paragraph SAR after 36 June Declaration.
1997
with
To achieve this result, it will be necessary
for
the CPG
Contracting
parties
in some way
Parties, and
before 1
and obligations
all to
present to indicate all Governments which may become
July 1997, that all international rights and its Convention the arising
from
revisions, to the extent to which they apply to Hong Kong, will be assumed by the CPG with effect from 1 July 1997 and
apply
necessary Contracting
the to
ensure, to
HKSAR of
the
will It PRC.
SO far as possible,
further be
that those
Parties either agree or at least acquiesce.
the opinion of
the
side, British
Ιη
the best method for
securing this objective would be as described in para. 7 of the paper handed to the Chinese side on 15 March 1989.
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