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Table 2 Conditions identified by informants as supporting attention to access to medicines, seeds and protecting public health regulatory space in the RCEP negotiations

From: Defending access to medicines in regional trade agreements: lessons from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership – a qualitative study of policy actors’ views

Framework Concepts

Conditions

Actors

• Strong leadership by low and middle income ASEAN members

• Strong leadership by India

• Civil society mobilisation domestically and regionally

• Technical expertise role of civil society advisers and experts with negotiators

Ideas

• Strong access to medicines norm established

Political Context

• Lessons learnt from the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations

• ‘Breaking open’ the negotiations to alternative views

Issue characteristics

• Strength of evidence

• Domestic salience of health issue

• Existing international legislation for health issue