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Mr. Martin Glass (Hong Kong, China)
F NON VIOLATION AND SITUATION COMPLAINTS
107. The Chairman recalled that, at the Seventh Session of the Ministerial Conference, Ministers had directed the Council for TRIPS to continue its examination of the scope and modalities for complaints of the types provided for under subparagraphs 1(b) and 1(c) of Article XXIII of GATT 1994 and to make recommendations to their next Session, which they had decided to hold in 2011. It was agreed that, in the meantime, Members would not initiate such complaints under the TRIPS Agreement. At its last meeting, the Council had agreed to keep the item on non violation and situation complaints on the agenda as a regular item so as to allow Members who would have new thinking to share it, and also enable the Council revert to the question of the further organization of its work in the light of any future suggestions.
IP/C/M/63