30. The representative of Australia said that he did not object to the Chairperson having a role to play in breaking a deadlock. What he wanted to underline was that in agriculture there had been agreement from the outset that the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture would table a text. In the DSU negotiations, there had seemed to be no opposition to the Chairperson tabling a text. In other words, it was necessary to have in each group some form of consensus about the Chair's action. The moment a negotiating body came to a deadlock might be the appropriate time. For his delegation, this was not yet the right moment for the Special Session of the TRIPS Council. On paragraph 10, if Hungary thought that the multilateral system could also cover some other products, this could appear in the minutes. It could not be included in the kind of document that would aid the negotiations such as the compilation paper in a paragraph placed under a separate heading "Products other than wines and spirits" and preceding paragraph 11, which reflected the ruling by the Chairperson that the mandate of negotiations concerned exclusively wines and spirits.
