WTO: GC chair and DG lay out plan for MC14 amid member discord (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The chair of the World Trade Organization's General Council (GC) and the WTO Director-General are convening a meeting of capital-based senior officials at the WTO on 16 December.

Seed Treaty: Lack of transparency in MLS raises global concerns (PRIV)
(Nithin Ramakrishnan and Mirna Ines Fernandez Pradel, Lima)
As discussions at the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) kick off, several Contracting Parties have called for more information on the implementation and operations of the Treaty's Multilateral System (MLS) of Access and Benefit-Sharing.

WHO: Overlooked users of PABS System & implications for benefit-sharing (PRIV)
(Chetali Rao and Sangeeta Shashikant, New Delhi/London)
The Secretariat of the World Health Organization (WHO) circulated to delegations an information document, titled Potential participants in/users of the PABS System beyond "participating manufacturers", which overlooks a wide range of actors who use pathogen-related digital sequence information to develop commercial products and generate revenue.