Actualités & Evénements

Collaborative Mechanisms for Intellectual Property Management in the Life Sciences

12-sept.-2011

This report explores how new and evolving approaches to IP, such as licensing and auctions, patents pools, IP clearinghouses and emerging models of research collaborations are impacting the modern scientific environment in life sciences. It suggests ways in which both the public and private sectors seek to evolve from an “own and protect” model of intellectual property into an era of “own and share”, where value accrues not just to the initial owner of IP, but also to larger society as a whole.

Le projet de Recommandation sur l’évaluation de durabilité des bioproduits

11-août-2011

La consultation publique de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE) sur le projet de Recommandation pour l’évaluation de soutenabilité des bioproduits est terminée.

Les commentaires reçus seront compilés et analysés. La Recommandation continuera d’être révisée au fil des réunions d’experts. Seront pris en compte les commentaires reçus dans le cadre de la consultation publique et les nouveaux commentaires des experts et des représentants des pays membres de l'OCDE. La Recommandation devrait être rendue publique sous sa forme définitive en 2012.

Pascal Saint-Amans appointed new director of the OECD's tax centre

28-juil.-2011

Mr. Pascal Saint-Amans has been appointed Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTP).  He will take up his duties on 1st February 2012 upon the retirement of Mr. Jeffrey Owens.

Three new and one revised Emission Scenario Document published

07-juil.-2011

Three new Emission Scenario Documents (ESDs) on the releases of chemicals from the Application of Radiation Curable Coatings, Inks, and Adhesives, from the Use of Metalworking Fluids, and from Water-Based Operations at Industrial and Institutional Laundries are now available. The ESD on Coating Application via Spray-Painting in the Automotive Refinishing Industry from 2004 was revised. ESDs describe methods for estimating emissions of chemicals from various industry sectors and/or from uses of chemicals. Including these new documents, OECD has so far published 27 ESDs.

PESTICIDES: Publication of the OECD Survey on Efficacy & Crop Safety Data Requirements & Guidelines for the Registration of Pesticide Minor Uses: Survey Results

05-juil.-2011

This document contains the report of a survey carried out in 2009 by the OECD Expert Group on Minor Uses (EGMU), a sub-group of the Working Group on Pesticides, on “Efficacy & Crop Safety Data Requirements & Guidelines for the Registration of Pesticide Minor Uses”. The aim of the survey was to provide an overview of regulatory requirements and mechanisms pertaining to minor uses in OECD member countries.

PESTICIDES: Publication of the OECD Survey on Regulatory Incentives for the Registration of Pesticide Minor Uses: Survey Results

05-juil.-2011

This document contains the report of a survey carried out in 2009 by the OECD Expert Group on Minor Uses (EGMU), a sub-group of the Working Group on Pesticides, on “Regulatory Incentives for the Registration of Pesticide Minor Uses”. The aim of the survey was to provide an overview of regulatory incentives available to enhance the registration of pesticide minor uses.

PESTICIDES: Guidance Document on Regulatory Incentives for the Registration of Pesticide Minor Uses

05-juil.-2011

This document provides guidance to national regulatory authorities in providing greater incentives to encourage applicants (manufacturers/registrants) to register agricultural pesticides (including both synthetically and naturally derived products) for minor uses.  This document is based upon the results of a survey conducted in 2009 by the OECD Expert Group on Minor Uses (EGMU), which detailed available incentives in OECD countries [see survey results in publication ENV/JM/MONO(2011)14].