33. The Chairperson recalled that the previous meeting of the Council had had a special focus on technical cooperation and in that context developed country Members had provided their annual updates of information on their technical cooperation activities. Some of that information had been provided just prior to the previous meeting and most of it had only been available in its original language. Therefore, it had been agreed, as in previous years, to invite Members to make further comments on those annual reports at the present meeting. He also informed the Council that, shortly before the present meeting, a non-paper had been received and made available, jointly submitted by the delegations of Bangladesh; the European Communities and their member States; Hong, Kong, China; and Norway (JOB(00)/7535). This document addressed the issue of "Technical Assistance on TRIPS Notification between WTO Members".
