51. The Chairperson, recalling the Council's mandate under the provisions of Article 68 of the Agreement on monitoring of the operation of the Agreement, said that that work was based on mutual cooperation among all Members. Members had the right to pose questions and other Members should make every effort to respond to them. If a Member was unable to do so because the statistical information would be unduly burdensome to collect, it should explain this. If statistics did exist or could be readily collected, the Member concerned should make them known and give any guidance on the way that they should be interpreted that it thought helpful. She suggested that Members always specify the method by and context in which statistics had been collected.
