World Trade Organisation [to 1 March 2014]
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news13_e/news13_e.htm

25 and 26 February 2014
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: FORMAL COUNCIL MEETING
Intellectual property body grapples with plain packaging, innovation, technology and more
WTO members discussed a number of new and long-running issues such as plain packaging for tobacco products, measures related to biodiversity, innovation in green technologies, and the role of universities, when they met as the intellectual property council on 25–26 February 2014. But they failed to narrow their differences on many issues and there were no breakthrough decisions.

24 February 2014
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Estonia donates EUR 20,000 to technical assistance for developing countries
The government of Estonia has donated EUR 20,000 (CHF 24,400) to the WTO Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund for 2014. This donation will finance a wide range of trade-related technical assistance activities to help developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) to participate effectively in the Doha round of negotiations and better integrate into the world economy.