India and European Union- EU have reached an interim settlement under which none of its members will detain Indian generic medicines transiting through Europe on suspicion of intellectual property right (IPR) violations. Additional Secretary in the Commerce Ministry Rajiv Kher told reporters in New Delhi on Thursday that under the interim settlement, EU will not make any detention within its territory of pharmaceutical productscoming from India. However, New Delhi will not withdraw its case against EU in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) filed in May 2010, which was triggered by repeated detentions and seizures of Indian pharmaceutical products at EU ports particularly in the Netherlands. Mr. Kher said that as per the bilateral understanding, EU would not only stop such detentions but also amend itsregulation under which its member countries resorted to such an action. He said the EU will issue interim guidelines to their customs authorities and all member countries advising them how to take the core principles of India's understanding into the EU legislation. He said that India's options to revive the dispute at WTO remain intact, unless the EU abides by these core principles.