1. The Chairman drew attention to the Secretariat's updated note reflecting the status of the notifications received so far (JOB(03)/102). The note showed from which of the Members in question notifications had been received and/or circulated by 26 May 2003. Since the Council's meeting in June 2003, the following notifications had been received: Congo had notified a number of laws and regulations related to industrial property and provided information on its application of national and MFN treatment as well as Article 70.8 of the Agreement; the United Arab Emirates had notified the Council that its new intellectual property laws had entered into force and submitted an English translation of one of these laws – the translation of the two other laws was being finalized; the two newly acceded Members, Armenia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia had notified their TRIPS implementing legislation. From the 81 Members in question, there were now four who had not yet submitted any notification concerning their implementing legislation, namely Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Swaziland. Notifications from a number of other Members were incomplete. Recalling that pursuant to Article 63.2 of the Agreement the notifications of the laws and regulations in question were generally due as of 1 January 2000, he urged all Members with unfulfilled notification obligations to submit the outstanding material without delay.
