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East African Community Regional Intellectual Property Policy on the Utilisation of Public Health-Related WTO-TRIPS Flexibilities and the Approximation of National Intellectual Property Legislation

East Africa, East African Community

The overall objective of this Policy is to guide the EAC Partner States on how their national intellectual property legislation shall be adjusted in order to enable them to fully utilise the Public Health-related WTO-TRIPS Flexibilities. It provides a comprehensive ‘road map’ on how the latter shall facilitate optimising the populations’ access to health and health-related products. It further identifies the lowest common denominator of intellectual property legislation that can be approximated across all the EAC Partner States.

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East African Community Regional Intellectual Property Policy on the Utilisation of Public Health-Related WTO-TRIPS Flexibilities and the Approximation of National Intellectual Property Legislation Current Version

January 2022

The overall objective of this Policy is to guide the EAC Partner States on how their national intellectual property legislation shall be adjusted in order to enable them to fully utilise the Public Health-related WTO-TRIPS Flexibilities. It provides a comprehensive ‘road map’ on how the latter shall facilitate optimising the populations’ access to health and health-related products. It further identifies the lowest common denominator of intellectual property legislation that can be approximated across all the EAC Partner States.

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