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Ambassador Federico A. González (Paraguay)
A NOTIFICATIONS UNDER PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT
1. The Chairman said that, since the Council's meeting in March 2011, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines had notified its responses to the Checklist of Issues on Enforcement. These responses were being circulated in document IP/N/6/VCT/1. 2. Ukraine had notified its contact point under Article 69 for the exchange of information and cooperation on trade in infringing goods. The list of contact points under Article 69 on the transparency toolkit page of the WTO website had been updated accordingly. 3. He urged those Members whose initial notifications of laws and regulations remained incomplete to submit the outstanding material without delay. He also reminded other Members of their obligation under the TRIPS Agreement to notify any subsequent amendments of their laws and regulations without delay after their entry into force. He in particular reminded those Members who had made any changes to their laws and/or regulations to implement the Decision on TRIPS and public health and who had not yet notified such changes to the Council to do so.
IP/C/M/66