Ms Irene Young (Hong Kong, China)

Australia

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178. We were pleased to present Australia's report at the Article 66.2 workshop at our last meeting in 2017. Australia has participated in these workshops since their inception in 2008. They are useful forums for exchanging views and have positively influenced how Australia prepares our reports and shares information. Australia notes the communication circulated by the delegation of Cambodia on behalf of the LDCs Group regarding the implementation of Article 66.2. Australia is committed to assisting least developed countries through technology transfer pursuant to the Council's decision on the implementation of Article 66.2. Australia fulfils its commitment in this regard by providing its report in the preferred template and participating actively in the workshop.

The Council took note of the statements made.

27. The Chairperson recalled that the Council had held its annual review of developed country Members' reports on the implementation of Article 66.2 in October 2017. At that meeting, she had indicated that delegations would be provided an opportunity at the present meeting to make further comments on the information submitted for that meeting that they had not yet been able to study.

28. Since then, Cambodia, on behalf of the LDC Group, had submitted a "Proposal on the Implementation of Article 66 of the TRIPS Agreement" (IP/C/W/640).

29. The representatives of Haiti, on behalf of the LDC Group; Bangladesh; the United States; Japan; Switzerland; the European Union; Australia; Benin; Brazil; and India took the floor.

30. The Council took note of the statements made.

IP/C/M/88, IP/C/M/88/Add.1