8. The Chairperson said that responses to many initial questions posed to Kuwait in the review of its national implementing legislation had remained outstanding. Kuwait had provided responses to certain initial questions, and these had been circulated in document IP/C/W/232. However, it had not yet provided responses to the initial questions posed by Canada, nor to certain questions posed by the European Communities and their member States, Switzerland and the United States and circulated in documents IP/C/W/225, 219, 207 and 215/Add.1, respectively.
