Session 1: Introduction to GIs
Origin and Framework for the protection of GIs, Bernard O'Connor, NCTM Association d’avocats, O’Connor European Lawyers
Economic Rationale and Basic Policy Framework for Using GIs in Product Development and Promoting Competitiveness, Dominique Barjolle, Agridea
Session 2: GIs as a development tool for ACP countries?
GIs issues, opportunities, politicy options, Audray Aubard, Aubard Consulting
Session 3: Protection of GIs and legal issues
GIs Protection and Trade in Goods: Key legal Issues and Implications for African ACP Member States, Susan Isiko Strba, Independent consultant
Geographical indications as distinctive signs for collective use, Marcus Hopperger, WIPO
Session 4: Setting up a GI: a profitable strategy?
Evaluating the setting up and certification costs, Nestor Ravelson, ECOCERT
Session 5: GIs in international agreements, what recognition and protection?
Overview of Key International Developments and Trends Related to GIs: the Doha Round and the WTO Draft Report on a GIs Register, Wolf Meier-Ewert, WTO
The international protection of GIs though the WIPO Lisbon Agreement, Judge Thomas Voit, German Federal Patent Court
The EU GI protection system and significance of GIs in EU Trade, the protection system for non EU products and EPA related issues, Ursula Stepkowska, DG Agriculture and rural development, European Commission
Session 6: Case Studies: GIs Experiences in African ACP Member States
Country paper on potential GI products for Kenya, Giorgio Bocedi, GB Avvocati
Case studies:
§ Vanilla from Madagascar, Claude Andreas, Centre horticole de Tamatave
§ Bark Cloth from Uganda, Sara Kaberlive
§ Argan Oil from Morocco, Audray Aubard, Aubard Consulting
Presentation of the Pacific Regional Action Plan for Traditional knowledge Project, Gail Olsson, Pacific Regional Action Plan for TK Development Project