15. The Chairman recalled that, at its meeting in June 2002, the Council had agreed that its normal review of China's TRIPS implementation and the review under the transitional review mechanism of China's Protocol of Accession would be combined at the present meeting and that the normal review would be conducted following the Council's standard procedures. He said that China's notification of its laws and regulations had been circulated in documents IP/N/1/CHN/1 and Addendum 1, and the texts of the notified laws and regulations in the relevant law series documents. China's responses to the Checklist of Issues on Enforcement had been circulated in document IP/N/6/CHN/1. China had received questions from Australia, Canada, the European Communities and their member States, Japan, the United States and Switzerland (documents IP/C/W/364, 366, 361, 362, 365 and 372, respectively). The submission from the United States contained both general comments and questions, and also referred to the transitional review mechanism. In addition, the European Communities and their member States had submitted a document concerning the transitional review mechanism which had been circulated in document IP/C/W/371. China's responses to these questions had been circulated in document IP/C/W/374 and Addendum 1. More recently, China had received questions from Korea, which had been circulated in document IP/C/W/380. Furthermore, China had submitted information in the context of the transitional review mechanism as required under Section VI of the Annex 1A to its Protocol of Accession (IP/C/W/382). In addition, the Council had just received the following material: additional questions posed by Japan, responses to some of the questions posed by Korea, and a communication from China entitled "Intellectual Property Right Protection in China" (subsequently circulated in document IP/C/W/362/Add.1, 374/Add.2 and 384, respectively).
