41. The representative of the Secretariat said, in relation to the first question raised by the European Communities ("How many international registration systems for intellectual property rights have legal effects?") that the Secretariat paper on multilateral notification and registration systems (TN/IP/W/4) already provided information on this matter. Paragraph 8 of that document as well as the synoptic tables on pages 5-14 for example dealt with the legal effects provided in various multilateral registration systems. With regard to the second question ("How many WTO Agreements entail legal effects?"), he asked whether he was correct in understanding that the question related to WTO agreements which contained obligations on the national laws that Members should establish on trade and intellectual property within their territories. On the third issue ("How many WTO Agreements are voluntary?"), he asked whether he was correct in understanding that this related to agreements to which Members had the option of whether or not to join. Regarding the question posed by New Zealand, he understood it to refer to WTO agreements which contained provisions that applied generally to trade in goods as opposed to agreements that related to particular sectors of trade in goods or services or of intellectual property. He understood the question posed by the United States as relating to WTO agreements which provided for different obligations for different classes of Members, e.g., developing countries.
