37. The Chairman said that Qatar's notification of its laws and regulations had been circulated in document IP/N/QAT/2, and the texts of the notified laws in the relevant law series documents. Qatar's responses to the Checklist of Issues on Enforcement had been circulated in document IP/N/6/QAT/1. Qatar had received questions from Australia, Canada, the European Communities and its member States, Japan, Switzerland and the United States (documents IP/C/W/328, 314, 320, 208, 315 and 215 Addendum 1, respectively). Qatar had provided responses to most of these questions (document IP/C/W/346), but there were still a number of questions from the European Communities, Japan, Switzerland and the United States to which written responses had not been obtained prior to the present meeting.
38. In accordance with the standard procedures, the delegation of Qatar provided a brief introductory overview of the structure of its legislation in the areas covered by the TRIPS Agreement and of the changes that it had had to bring about in order to make the legislation compatible with the Agreement. The record of the introductory statement as well as the questions put to it and the responses given (including responses to any follow-up questions posed after the meeting) will be circulated in the following documents: IP/Q/QAT/1, IP/Q2/QAT/1, IP/Q3/QAT/3 and IP/Q4/QAT/1.
