International instruments. The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises,93 which contain a Chap- ter IX on Competition, and which have been revised and adopted in 2000, remain general and non-binding. The outcome of ongoing work within the WTO on competition is difficult to predict.94 For the time being, WTO Members do not agree on a common ap- proach to the possible inclusion of competition rules in the WTO legal framework. The “Working Group on the Interaction Between Trade and Competition Policy”, which was established by the WTO Ministerial Conference in December 1996, has discussed the interrelationship between the trade-related aspects of intellec- tual property and competition policy quite extensively.95 However, it has only a preparatory role of gathering and defining the issues, not of suggesting solutions or rules.
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Sources: Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Agreement, Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Agreement