232. The Chairperson recalled that, in July 2000, the General Council had agreed to invite the TRIPS Council and three other subsidiary bodies, namely the Council for Trade in Goods, the Council for Trade in Services and the Committee on Trade and Development, to pick up where they had left off in their work on electronic commerce within their respective spheres of competence, to identify cross sectoral issues, and to report back to the General Council at its regular meeting in December 2000. At the previous meeting, the Council had heard an update from WIPO on the work of that Organization in connection with electronic commerce and had an initial discussion on the matter. Since then, two papers had been received, one from the European Communities and their member States (IP/C/W/224), and another from Australia just prior to the meeting.
