32. The Chairperson recalled that, at the Council's meeting of 1 and 2 December 1998, the delegation of Haiti had requested information from developed country Members on how Article 66.2 of the TRIPS Agreement was being implemented. The Council had agreed that this question be circulated in an informal document of the TRIPS Council to all Members and that developed country Members be invited to supply information in response to this question. Following the Council's meeting in July 1999, the Secretariat had received information on the implementation of Article 66.2 from the European Communities, which included also information from Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. All this information had been circulated in document IP/C/W/132/Add.4. Additional information, received from Ireland and Germany, was being circulated as a supplement to this document. Apart from this information from the European Communities, to date, information had also been provided in writing by New Zealand, the United States, Japan and Australia. This information was available in documents IP/C/W/132 and addenda 1 to 3, respectively.
