1. The Chairperson drew the Council's attention to the Secretariat's updated note reflecting the status of the notifications received from these Members and distributed prior to the present meeting (JOB(01)/28 of 7 March 2001). Since its distribution, additional notifications of laws and regulations had been received from Honduras, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, the Philippines, Saint Lucia and Suriname; and additional notifications of responses to the Checklist of Issues on Enforcement had been received from Costa Rica, Croatia, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Namibia, the Philippines, St. Lucia and Venezuela. Although several more notifications had been received compared to when the Council had last met, still many Members whose legislation was scheduled to be reviewed this year had not yet submitted any notification concerning their implementing legislation. In this regard, he urged those Members to submit the outstanding material without delay. He recalled that Article 63.2 of the Agreement required these Members to notify the laws and regulations pertaining to the subject-matter of the Agreement applicable as of 1 January 2000. He urged the delegations in question, if not all the material to be notified was ready yet, to submit whatever could be notified at present and complement the notification as soon as other parts of the material to be notified would be ready for submission. He reminded delegations that, under the WTO/WIPO cooperation agreement and decisions taken by WIPO's Governing Bodies, the International Bureau of WIPO was in a position to assist delegations with the translation of their main dedicated intellectual property laws and regulations, as required.
