Minutes - TRIPS Council - View details of the intervention/statement

Ambassador Dacio Castillo (Honduras)
12 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL CONCERNING WAYS TO IMPROVE THE TIMELINESS AND COMPLETENESS OF NOTIFICATIONS AND OTHER INFORMATION FLOWS
251. The Chairman said that, as requested in the letter from the Chair of the General Council, he would inform the Chair of the Trade Policy Review Body of the results of the continued consideration by the TRIPS Council of the matter. He noted that this matter was closely related to the implementation of the recommendations for savings and more efficient use of resources made by the Budget Committee (document WT/BFA/128). He was continuing to informally explore with delegations further ways to improve cost-effectiveness. 252. He suggested that, rather than maintaining this as a separate agenda item, the Council instead request the Secretariat to inform the Council at its future meetings on any further enhancements to its services improving the transparency, timeliness, completeness and user-friendliness of the notification system under the Council's regular item 1 relating to notifications under TRIPS in general. Also Members would be free to make any further comments on the operation of the notification system under that item. Any specific steps could also be reported through the regular channels.
IP/C/M/71