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Ambassador Boniface Chidyausiku (Zimbabwe)
B.v.b Review of the legislation of 16 Members
46. Turning to the 16 other Members whose legislation was scheduled to be reviewed by the Council at the present meeting, the Chairperson informed the Council that 12 of these 16 Members had provided notifications of their implementing legislation prior to the meeting, although not all of these notifications were comprehensive. Eleven had provided responses to the Checklist of Issues on Enforcement (IP/C/5). The Members under review had received questions from Australia, Canada, the European Communities and their member States, Japan, Switzerland and the United States, which had been circulated in documents IP/C/W/228, 314, 320 and Add.1, 322, 315 and 316, respectively. Despite the short time available to answer questions, some responses had been received prior to, or during, the meeting from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Cuba, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, Pakistan, Uruguay and Zimbabwe; these had been circulated in documents IP/C/W/317 to 319, 321 and 323 to 331 and addenda, respectively.
IP/C/M/34