ANNEX VII

ANNEX VII
INTELLECTUAL, INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 56
1.	By the end of the fifth year after the entry into force of the Agreement, Jordan shall accede to the following multilateral conventions on property rights:
	-	Bern Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works (Paris Act 1971);
	-	the Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations (Rome, 1961);
	-	Nice Agreement concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the purposes of the Registration of Marks (Geneva Act 1977 and amended in 1979);
	-	Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks (Stockholm Act 1967 and amended in 1979);
	-	Protocol relating to the Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks (Madrid 1989);
	-	Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro organisms for the purposes of Patent Procedure (1977, modified in 1980);
		the International Convention for Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) (Geneva Act 1991).
2.	Not later than the seventh year after the entry into force of the Agreement, Jordan shall accede to the following multilateral conventions:
	-	Patent Cooperation Treaty (Washington 1970, amended in 1979 and modified in 1984).
3.	Jordan undertakes to provide for adequate and effective protection of patents for chemicals and pharmaceuticals in line with Articles 27 to 34 of the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, by the end of the third year from the entry into force of this Agreement or from its accession to the WTO, whichever is the earliest.
4.	The Association Council may decide that paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall apply to other multilateral conventions in this field.
5.	The Parties confirm the importance they attach to the obligations arising from the following multilateral convention:
	-	the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property (Stockholm Act 1967, amended in 1979).