23. The Chairperson recalled that, at the Council's last meeting, Members had been strongly urged to make every effort to submit responses to questions posed to them at the Council's meeting in May 1997 and which were still outstanding. Since then, some of these answers had been received and circulated in the IP/Q3/- series of documents. However, outstanding material was still due from three Members. He suggested that the Secretariat contact those delegations again and that the Council urge those delegations to provide this material without delay.
24. The Chairperson said that the Secretariat had received information from Ireland complementing an earlier response given by Ireland in this part of the review and circulated in the IP/Q3/- series of documents. This additional answer from Ireland, which related to the protection of test data under Article 39.3 of the Agreement, had been distributed in document IP/Q3/IRL/1/Add.1.
25. The Chairperson recalled that, at the Council's last meeting, the European Communities and their Member States had posed a question to the delegation of South Africa. This question had been circulated in document IP/C/W/94. The answer to this question had just been received from the delegation of South Africa and would be included in document IP/Q3/ZAF/1 which would be circulated shortly.
