248. A representative of the Secretariat responded that, as described in Document JOB (04)/164, there were two proposals, the second of which had two elements. With regard to one of these elements contained in the second proposal, agreement had been reached amongst participants and that proposal had been forwarded at that time by the Chairman of the TRIPS Council to the Chairman of the General Council to be included in the package that was going to Cancún. As no action had been taken at Cancún, it remained a text that had been agreed at the level of the members of the TRIPS Council, but which had not yet been formally acted upon and put into force at the final level.
