56. The representative of the European Communities said that under any conceivable system, including those that were on the table, a translation would be useful for any Member receiving a copy of the notification. He recalled that all Members had expressed that they were conscious of the need to avoid burdens resulting from the system on WTO Members, in particular developing country Members. For example, translations provided by the notifying Member could be helpful to a small developing country with limited IP office capacity that would be confronted with a geographical indication in a script that it did not read or with a transliteration which meant nothing to it. All Members subscribed to the principle of territoriality, including the European Communities, and there was nothing in the EC proposal that was extraterritorial in nature. If the EC proposal were extraterritorial, then the Madrid Agreement, to which the United States was a party, would also be.
