Judgment_paragraph 9 · Institutul de Istorie şi Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” and Fundaţia Naţională pentru Ştiinţă şi Artă v HK and Others (C-649/23)

9The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of 15 April 1994 (OJ 1994 L 336, p. 214; ‘the TRIPS Agreement’) constitutes Annex 1C to the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO), which was signed in Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 and approved by Council Decision 94/800/EC of 22 December 1994 concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community, as regards matters within its competence, of the agreements reached in the Uruguay Round multilateral negotiations (1986-1994) (OJ 1994 L 336, p. 1). The members of the WTO, including all EU Member States and the European Union itself, are parties to the TRIPS Agreement.