27. The Chairman recalled that, at its meeting in March 2006, the Council had agreed to maintain its present method of work on these matters, and to keep this method under review to assess whether any change might prove appropriate in the light of developments. Accordingly, he suggested that the Council continue its past practice of discussing these three items together on the basis of the contributions by Members. He informed the Council that, since its meeting in October 2007, the Dominican Republic and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (the ACP Group) had been added to the list of co-sponsors of the disclosure proposal circulated as document IP/C/W/474 (issued with the joint symbols WT/GC/W/564/Rev.2 and TN/C/W/41/Rev.2). Addenda 7 and 8 to that document had been issued to this effect.
