title: Canada files WTO complaint against EC.
abstract: In December 1998, Canada filed a complaint alleging that the European Communities (EC) had adopted regulations that amounted to a scheme to extend patent terms, limited to pharmaceutical and agricultural chemical products.
mesh_terms: D016573:Agrochemicals; D002170:Canada; D003132:Commerce / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004345:Drug Industry; D005062:European Union; D010330:Patents as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*
chemical_list: D016573:Agrochemicals