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Ambassador C. Trevor Clarke (Barbados)
C TRANSITIONAL REVIEW UNDER SECTION 18 OF THE PROTOCOL ON THE ACCESSION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
14. The Chairman recalled that paragraph 18 of China's Protocol on Accession required the TRIPS Council to review the implementation by China of the TRIPS Agreement each year for eight years and report the results of such review promptly to the General Council. He further recalled that paragraph 18 required China to provide relevant information, including information specified in Annex 1A, to the TRIPS Council in advance of the review. He informed the Council that the information submitted by China pursuant to the requirement, dated 23 October 2006, had been circulated as document IP/C/W/483. Questions and comments in connection with the transitional review had been submitted by the European Communities, Japan and the United States (documents IP/C/W/481, 479 and 482, respectively).
IP/C/M/52