3. The Chairman informed the Council that, since its meeting in March, it had received a notification of laws and regulations from Saudi Arabia. Among the Members whose transitional periods under Article 65.2 or 65.3 had expired on 1 January 2000 or who have acceded to the WTO after that date, there still remained two who had not yet submitted any notification concerning their implementing legislation, namely Saint Kitts and Nevis; and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
4. He said that the Council had also received a number of supplements and updates to earlier notifications of laws and regulations notified under Article 63.2 of the Agreement. Mexico had notified a number of amendments to its Industrial Property Law as well as to its Copyright Law and Regulations; Hong Kong, China had notified amendments to its trademark rules and the Copyright Ordinance of 2001; Japan had provided an updated text of its Unfair Competition Act; Japan had also provided a complete update of its initial notification; and Australia had provided information regarding amendments to its laws and regulations made prior to 31 October 2004. These notifications were being circulated in the IP/N/1/- series of documents. In addition, Switzerland had notified statistical information on the enforcement of intellectual property rights in Switzerland for the years 2002 and 2003 (document IP/N/6/CHE/1/Add.2).
5. He urged those Members whose initial notifications remained incomplete to submit the outstanding material without delay, and reminded other Members of their obligation to notify any subsequent amendments of their laws and regulations without delay after their entry into force. In particular, he reminded those Members who had made any changes to their laws and/or regulations to implement the decision on "Implementation of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health" and who had not yet notified such changes to the Council to do so.
6. With regard to notifications of contact points under Article 69, he said that, since the Council's meeting in June, a notification of a new contact point had been received from Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, updates to contact points notified earlier had been received from Guatemala and Latvia. These notifications were being circulated in an addendum to document IP/N/3/Rev.9. To date, 122 Members had notified contact points under Article 69.
