Intellectual, industrial and commercial property conventions referred to in Article 15 (PCA Tajikistan: Article 39(1))
ANNEX IISupplementary provisions
ANNEX II Intellectual, industrial and commercial property conventions referred to in Article 15 (PCA Tajikistan: Article 39(1)) 1. Article 15 concerns the following multilateral conventions: — International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations (Rome, 1961), — Protocol relating to the Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks (Madrid, 1989), — International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) (Geneva Act, 1991). 2. The Joint Committee may recommend that Article 15 shall apply to other multilateral conventions. If problems in the area of intellectual, industrial and commercial property affecting trading conditions were to occur, urgent consultations will be undertaken, at the request of either Party, with a view to reaching mutually satisfactory solutions. 3. The Parties confirm the importance they attach to the obligations arising from the following multilateral conventions: — Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Stockholm Act, 1967 and amended in 1979), — Patent Cooperation Treaty (Washington, 1970, amended in 1979 and in 1984), — Revised Berne Convention for the protection of literacy and artistic works (1886 last amended in 1979), — Trademark Law Treaty (Geneva 1994). 4. From the entry into force of this Agreement, the Republic of Tajikistan shall grant to Community companies and nationals, in respect of the recognition and protection of intellectual, industrial and commercial property, treatment no less favourable than that granted by it to any third country under bilateral agreements. 5. The provisions of paragraph 4 shall not apply to advantages granted by the Republic of Tajikistan to any third country on an effective reciprocal basis and to advantages granted by the Republic of Tajikistan to another country of the former USSR.