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**Council of the**
**European Union**

**Interinstitutional File:**

**2022/0185(NLE)**

**'I/A' ITEM NOTE**

**Brussels, 1 July 2022**
**(OR. en)**

**10781/22**

**PI 80**

From: General Secretariat of the Council

To: Permanent Representatives Committee/Council

No. prev. doc.: 10531/22 + ADD 1

No. Cion doc.: 10249/22 + ADD 1

Subject: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be taken on behalf
of the European Union in the Assembly of the Lisbon Special Union

          - Adoption

1. On 14 June 2022, the Commission submitted to the Council the above-mentioned proposal.

2. The Working Party on Intellectual Property examined the proposal at its meeting on

21 June 2022. A revised text, taking into account the outcome of the fourth session of the

Lisbon Working Group of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), that took

place in Geneva from 14 to 16 June 2022, was presented to and approved by the Working

Party at its meeting on 29 June 2022.

3. The Permanent Representatives Committee is therefore invited:

–
to confirm the agreement reached by the Working Party, and

–
to suggest to the Council to adopt, in part "A" of its agenda at a forthcoming meeting,

the Council Decision on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the

Assembly of the Lisbon Special Union of WIPO set out in documents 10735/22 +

ADD 1 as finalised by the Council's lawyer-linguists.

10781/22 BM/AF/ob 1

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4. In accordance with Article 218(10) TFEU, the General Secretariat of the Council will inform

the European Parliament of the adoption of this Decision.

10781/22 BM/AF/ob 2

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