7. The Chairperson said that the Secretariat had updated its note reflecting the status of the notifications received so far from Members whose transitional period under Article 65.2 or 65.3 had expired on 1 January 2000 (JOB(00)/5674 of 20 September 2000). In the distribution of these notifications, the Secretariat was now giving priority to the ones received from those delegations whose legislation was scheduled to be taken up for review in November of this year. Most of the material received from these Members had been distributed. However, as the table concerning these Members in the Secretariat note showed, gaps remained. The note also showed that many of the Members in question had not yet submitted any notification concerning their implementing legislation at all, in particular those whose legislation would be reviewed at a later stage. In this regard, he urged the Members concerned to submit the outstanding material without delay and recalled that Article 63.2 of the Agreement required them to notify the laws and regulations pertaining to the subject-matter of the Agreement applicable as of 1 January 2000. He suggested that, if not all the material to be notified was ready yet, Members 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. Delegations were also reminded that, under the WTO/WIPO Cooperation Agreement and decisions taken by the 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.
