24. The Chairman recalled that section 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 section 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 18 October 2007, had been circulated as document IP/C/W/505. In addition, the Chinese delegation had made available two room documents entitled Report on China's Intellectual Property Rights Protection in 2006 and China's Action Plan on IPR Protection 2007. Questions and comments in connection with the transitional review had been submitted by Japan, the United States and the European Communities (documents IP/C/W/498, 502 and 503, respectively).
