Top stories from 12 december update

Trade/WTO:

• TWN REPORT: The situation at the WTO a year since Seattle
• Brazil wants 'micro-organism' defined, opposes 'broad patents'
• Seattle repeated at Libreville
• Will the WTO Appellate Body listen to 'strong signal' from the General Council?
• NAFTA ruling undermines environmental accords
• EC wants others to share its burden of agriculture reforms
• Launching a Round or agreeing to an agenda?
• Lamy for "adjustment of positions and ambitions" for new Round
• Malaysia: PM for South cooperation for equity in global governance
• General Council meet on Appellate Body and NGO amicus petitions
• Three panels set in disputes
• Recent Event: Joint NGO statement on the review of Art.27.3b of the TRIPS agreement
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Biotechnology/Access

• Liability and redress for GMO harm: The Starlink case study
• TWN Briefing note on the report of the meeting of technical experts on the biosafety clearing house
• Capacity-building in developing countries to facilitate the implementation of the Cartagena protocol on biosafety
• NGOs launch campaign against basmati patents
• TWN Information Service on Biosafety

Other news

• NGOs blame US for COP6 failure
• BSE scare leads to surge in natural fodder in France