17. The Chairperson, reporting on his informal consultations on the matter, said that, in the first half of the year 2000, implementing legislation of 13 Members would be reviewed and another 14 reviews would be held in the second semester of the year 2000. The Chair would submit, prior to the next meeting, a proposal for the reviews of implementing legislation in the year 2001, in particular which Members would be reviewed when. As to the procedures for these reviews of implementing legislation, questions should be sent in some ten weeks before the meeting and three to four weeks before the meeting the countries concerned should submit their answers, in writing, to those questions. He recalled that funds were available under decisions of relevant WIPO bodies and pursuant to the Agreement Between WIPO and the WTO for the benefit of Members who had to translate laws and regulations to be notified.
