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Listen to the reactions from WIPO Director General Francis Gurry, Ambassador Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger, Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations in Geneva, and Claire Bury, Deputy Director General, Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission.

The European Union joined on October 1, 2018 the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled in a big expansion in membership for the accord, which eases the creation and transfer across national boundaries of texts specially adapted for use by visually impaired people. The Treaty will enter into force for the EU on January 1, 2018. The instrument of ratification was presented to WIPO Director General Francis Gurry at a ceremony held on the sidelines of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States took place in Geneva, Switzerland from September 24 to October 2, 2018.