87. The Chairman recalled that, at its meeting in March 2006, the Council had agreed to maintain its present method of work on these matters at this stage and to keep this method under review in order to assess whether any change might prove appropriate in the light of developments. He said that, at its meeting in June 2006, the Council had received three new communications: from Japan on the patent system and genetic resources (IP/C/W/472); from Norway on amending the TRIPS Agreement to introduce an obligation to disclose the origin of genetic resources and traditional knowledge in patent applications (IP/C/W/473, WT/GC/W/566 and TN/C/W/42); and from Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, India, Pakistan, Peru, Thailand and Tanzania on a disclosure proposal (IP/C/W/474, WT/GC/W/564/Rev.2 and TN/C/W/41/Rev.2). Since that meeting, South Africa had requested to be added to the list of co-sponsors of this document and an addendum had been issued to this effect. At that meeting, the delegation of Brazil, on behalf of the co-sponsors of the latter document, had provided responses to certain questions raised by other delegations on the disclosure proposal. Based on a written version since provided by Brazil, these responses had been circulated in document IP/C/W/475. He informed Members that the Council had just received a new communication from Peru that provided comments in relation to an earlier communication from the United States in document IP/C/W/469 (advance copy of IP/C/W/484).
