ITEM 3 OF THE CONSOLIDATED AGENDA: ELECTION OF THE OFFICERS OF THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES OF THE PARIS AND BERNE UNIONS

16. Discussions were based on document A/33/INF/1 Rev.

17. Following informal consultations between the Group Coordinators presided over by the outgoing Chair of the WIPO Coordination Committee, the following decision was adopted concerning the officers of the Coordination Committee:

The Coordination Committee

(i) endorses the principle of equitable geographical rotation for the election of the officers of the Coordination Committee;

(ii) elects as officers of the Coordination Committee

Chair: Jean-Marie Noirfalisse (Belgium)
Vice-Chair: Leo J. Palma (Philippines)
Vice-Chair: Víctor Manuel Lagos Pizzati (El Salvador)

(iii) requests the new Chair of the Coordination Committee to convene consultations with a view to establishing, before the next ordinary session of the Coordination Committee, modalities for the implementation of the above-mentioned principle.

18. Following the same informal consultations mentioned above, the following officers were elected for the Executive Committees of the Paris and Berne Unions, and for the vacancy to fill the Chair of the Lisbon Union Council:

for the Paris Union Executive Committee

Chair: Gorgi Filipov (The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
Vice-Chair: Ugur Gursad Yalçiner (Turkey)
Vice-Chair: Jacqueline Nicole Mono Ndjana (Ms.) (Cameroon)

for the Berne Union Executive Committee

Chair: Pronab Ranjan Dasgupta (India)
Vice-Chair: Valeriy I. Petrov (Ukraine)
Vice-Chair: Erwin Arkenbout (Netherlands)

for the Lisbon Union Council

Chair: Arturo Hernández Basave (Mexico)

19. The revised list of the officers for all the 21 Assemblies and other bodies appears in document A/33/INF/4 Rev..