42. The Chairman said that, since the previous meeting, the Secretariat had received updated information on technical cooperation activities from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which had been distributed in document IP/C/W/35/Add.7. The following developed country Members had so far provided updated information on their technical cooperation activities: Austria, Canada, Denmark, the European Communities, Finland, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States (documents IP/C/W/34 and addenda). As regards international intergovernmental organizations observers to the TRIPS Council, updated information had been provided by the FAO, the IMF, the OECD, UNCTAD, UPOV, WIPO, the World Bank and the WCO on their technical cooperation activities (documents IP/C/W/35 and addenda). Since the previous meeting, contact points for technical cooperation purposes relating to the TRIPS Agreement had been notified by Finland, Germany and Liechtenstein and an updated compilation of such contact points had been circulated as document IP/N/7/Rev.1. Since this document had been circulated, Canada had notified some changes concerning its contact point. 18 developed country Members had now notified contact points for technical cooperation purposes.
