212. The Chairperson recalled that, at the Council's meeting in June 2009, she had reported on her consultations on a letter from the Chair of the General Council concerning ways to improve the timeliness and completeness of notifications and other information flows in the TRIPS Council's area of responsibility. In order to facilitate its consideration of this issue, the TRIPS Council had requested that the Secretariat prepare a factual background note summarizing the relevant procedures and providing references to the relevant decisions, as well as information on the use of these procedures by Members, and also to prepare suggestions for the Council's consideration at its next meeting on how to improve the transparency and user friendliness of the notification system, for example by making notifications more easily accessible on the WTO webpage. This background note had been circulated to Members in document IP/C/W/543.
