RUSSIA-CIS-PATENTS-BANK-CONCEPT

Moscow, June 14 (Interfax) – A meeting held in Moscow by the CIS Economic Council’s Commission for Economic Affairs has approved a draft concept for setting up a CIS bank of patents and innovations.

“A broad range of economic integration issues has been discussed. The attendees approved the draft Concept to create a CIS bank of patents and innovations, analyzed the work of the Advisory Council of the senior government officials in charge of managing public material reserves in the Commonwealth countries,” the CIS Executive Committee said in a statement obtained by Interfax on Thursday.

The attendees discussed the implementation of the plan of priority measures aimed at implementing a Concept for CIS energy cooperation and the Inter-State radio navigation program.

Also approved is a draft Agreement on multilateral CIS specialization in the production and supply of seeds, agricultural varieties and hybrids, fruit, berry and grapevine plants, and a draft agreement for construction of an international trade and exhibition center with a CIS and European Union exhibition and marketing center in the Ukrainian city of Chop.

The documents discussed by the Commission will be submitted for consideration by the CIS Economic Council due to meet in Ashgabat on September 14, 2012, the statement said.

The meeting was attended by CIS Executive Committee Deputy Chairman Sergei Ivanov, authorized representatives from the CIS states, a number of inter-state and inter-governemental CIS agencies.

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