143. The Chairperson said that, since its previous meeting, the Council had received new papers from Brazil (document IP/C/W/228) and Japan (IP/C/W/236). Following a request that the TRIPS Council had received from the Special Session of the General Council concerned with implementation matters and as Members had agreed during informal consultations that he had held on 31 October 2000 , the TRIPS Council had met in informal session to discuss the issue of the relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
