10. The Chairman said that there were still 17 Members whose reviews had been initiated between April 2001 and June 2002 that had not yet been completed, namely Brazil, Congo, Cuba, Egypt, Fiji, Grenada, Mauritius, Moldova, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
11. He noted that responses to all outstanding questions had just been received from the Permanent Mission of Brazil (subsequently circulated as document IP/C/W/303/Add.4) and the Philippines (subsequently circulated as document IP/C/W/272/Add.3). A communication had been received from Suriname providing information on the status of the preparation of its new legislation on industrial property, and on copyright and related rights (IP/C/W/283/Add.4). Furthermore, he recalled that, at the Council's meeting in September 2002, Canada, Switzerland and the United States had requested Mauritius to respond to the questions they had posed to it on the basis of the new legislation that was pending at that time, and noted that Mauritius had recently notified its new industrial property legislation.
