3. The Chairman informed the Council that, since its June meeting, the following updates to earlier notifications of laws and regulations had been received: Japan had notified the "Basic Law on Intellectual Property" of 2002 and the amended Copyright Law. China had notified the implementing regulations of the Copyright Law and the Trademark Law and an amendment to the implementing rules of the patent law; furthermore, it had provided revised translations of two regulations it had notified earlier. The Kyrgyz Republic had notified amendments to its legislation. These notifications would be available in the IP/N/1/- series of documents.
4. The Chairman drew attention to questions posed by Japan to Thailand (IP/C/W/409), which related to the notification of certain Thai laws and regulations circulated on 21 and 28 March 2003.
