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Medicines and Medical Devices Bill

Moved by

Baroness Sheehan

19: Clause 1, page 1, line 12, at end insert—

“(d) citizens’ right to access medicines as part of the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health as stated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966;

(e) the public health safeguards within the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (“TRIPS Agreement”) which include but are not limited to—

(i) the right to grant compulsory licences and the freedom to determine the grounds upon which licences are granted;

(ii) the right to determine what constitutes a national emergency and circumstances of extreme urgency;

(iii) the freedom to establish the regime of exhaustion of intellectual property rights.”

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

807 cc63-4GC 

Session

2019-21

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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