1. The Chairman drew attention to the Secretariat's updated note reflecting the status of the notifications received from these Members so far. The note showed from which of the Members in question notifications had been received by 9 September 2002. Since then, additional notifications of laws and regulations had been received from Thailand and Cuba. From the 79 Members in question, there were seven who had not yet submitted any notification concerning their implementing legislation. Notifications from a number of other Members were incomplete. Recalling that pursuant to Article 63.2 of the TRIPS Agreement the notifications of the laws and regulations in question were generally due as of 1 January 2000, he once again urged these Members to submit the outstanding material without delay. He also urged them, if not all the material to be notified was ready yet, to submit whatever could be notified now and complement the notification as soon as other parts of the material to be notified were 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.
