5. The Chairperson informed the Council that, since the previous meeting, new notifications of legislation had been received from Belgium, Ecuador, Germany, Ireland and Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea had informed the Council in its notification of the intellectual property legislation currently in place in that country and of the preparations it was taking for full implementation of the TRIPS Agreement by the year 2000. All these notifications would be available in the IP/N/1/- document series as soon as possible.
