7. The Chairman said that the table indicated that there were 21 Members whose reviews had been initiated between April 2001 and June 2002 that had not yet been completed. The table referred to submissions received before 4 September 2002. Since then, the Secretariat had received responses to all outstanding questions posed to Guyana (subsequently circulated in document IP/C/W/381). Suriname was in the process of submitting information on the status of preparation of its TRIPS implementation. This information would be circulated to the Council once it became available.
8. The Chairman recalled that, at the Council's previous meeting, the representative of Mauritius had said that the questions concerning the legislation of Mauritius raised by a number of delegations had been all related to Mauritius' old laws. He had informed the Council that his delegation had had extensive consultations with these delegations, and that all the issues that had been raised by them had been factored in the new draft legislation, which was at that time before Parliament. Finally, he had expressed his hope that this explanation would set to rest the questions raised and that the matter could be closed once the new laws had been circulated to Members. The Chairman requested that the delegations that had posed questions to Mauritius to indicate whether they were satisfied with this explanation and that the review could be deleted from the Council's agenda, or whether they still preferred to get responses to the questions they had posed, or whether they preferred to revert to the matter once the new legislation had been notified and circulated to Members.
