53. The Chairman suggested that the Council revert to the questions raised concerning the Swiss paper at its next meeting. As regards how to organize future work on these three items, he recalled that many favourable comments had been made on the ideas he had put forward at the Council's informal consultation on 10 June 2004. He had detected willingness to find a way forward which would enable the Council to move its discussions to a more substantive stage. He said that the spirit of the suggestions he had made in the informal consultations was to find a way forward by looking at all the proposals submitted by delegations so far and to come up with a structure, which would avoid prejudicing the positions of delegations. He recalled that, in the course of the informal consultations, he had made it clear that all the papers that had been submitted would be fully taken into account in the Council's work under any such structure. He reaffirmed that agreement to work on the basis of any such structure should not be taken as in itself prejudicing the position of any delegation on any matter of substance. Responding to the questions raised by some Members, he said that all the proposals which were on the table, including the suggestions he had made in the course of the informal consultations, would remain on the table. Any other proposal which might be put forward should also be taken into account. He suggested that the Chair continue consultations on how future work on these three agenda items should be organized. Finally, he encouraged Members to make constructive comments on the existing proposals and to try to find a way of having a focused and structured discussion in the TRIPS Council on these three items.
