38. On behalf of the delegation of Kazakhstan, I would like to thank the Secretariat for their excellent advice on how to proceed with the notifications under the TRIPS Agreement. Immediately after the accession of Kazakhstan, at the end of last year, we were in contact with the Secretariat, and met with the Secretary of the Council for TRIPS who gave us all the necessary guidelines. Since then, we have submitted a notification on the contact point under Article 69 of the TRIPS Agreement. Now we would like to inform the Council for TRIPS that we are currently working on the notification of laws and regulations under Article 63.2 of the TRIPS Agreement with a list of the main laws and other legal acts on IPR. We are finalising the update of the English translation of the text of the main laws, including on copyright and related rights, patent law of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan on trademarks, service marks and appellations of origin. As soon as the texts are approved by the parties involved, we will submit the notification to the WTO.
