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Ambassador Federico A. González (Paraguay)
F NON-VIOLATION AND SITUATION COMPLAINTS
109. The Chairman recalled that, at the Seventh Session of the Ministerial Conference, Ministers had directed the TRIPS Council to continue its examination of the scope and modalities for complaints of the types provided for under subparagraphs 1(b) and 1(c) of Article XXIII of GATT 1994 and make recommendations to their next Session. It was agreed that, in the meantime, Members would not initiate such complaints under the TRIPS Agreement. The eighth Ministerial Conference would be held in Geneva on 15-17 December 2011. At its meeting in March 2010, the TRIPS Council had agreed to keep the item of non-violation and situation complaints on the agenda as a regular item so as to allow Members who would have new thinking to share it, and also enable the Council to revert to the question of the further organization of its work in the light of any future suggestions. 110. He said that he had used the occasion of his consultations on a number of matters in preparation of this meeting to also remind delegations of this approaching deadline. While he did not have any new thinking to report on this matter, he reminded Members that the matter was to be addressed at the Ministerial Conference and that, apart from the present session of the Council, there would only be one regular session of the Council, in October, to reach any recommendation on this matter. He therefore urged delegations to turn their minds to this question with a view to reaching consensus at the next meeting in October.
IP/C/M/66