26. The Chairman drew the attention of Members to the procedures that the Council had adopted regarding the communication of national emblems under Article 6ter of the Paris Convention. He recalled that the Agreement that had been concluded with WIPO (document IP/C/6) and the decision adopted by the Council giving legal effect under the TRIPS Agreement to the provisions of that Agreement relating to Article 6ter of the Paris Convention (document IP/C/7) provided that such emblems and any objections to them would be communicated between WTO Members through the intermediary of the International Bureau of WIPO. Most WTO Members who were members of the Paris Convention would already have communicated emblems to WIPO and these would automatically be communicated by the International Bureau to all WTO Members that were not members of the Paris Convention. The particular point that he wished to draw to the Council's attention was that it was now open to those WTO Members who were not members of the Paris Convention to make notifications, through the International Bureau, of their national emblems that they would wish to see protected in other WTO Members in accordance with the provisions of Article 6ter of the Paris Convention as they applied under the TRIPS Agreement.
