52. The Chairman said that the dates that he had suggested in accordance with the Council's standard practice were aimed at facilitating a detailed review and providing sufficient time for reactions from all delegations. This standard practice also provided flexibility, including the possibility to submit follow-up questions. He reiterated that there was agreement that the Council's normal review of China's TRIPS implementation and the review under the transitional review mechanism would be combined at the Council's meeting in September 2002, but that the question of what should be done by the Council for future TRM reviews would be considered next year, according to China's Protocol of Accession and in the light of whatever practice for such reviews would have been evolved by other WTO bodies.
