122. The Chairperson recalled that, at its last meeting, the Council had received three new contributions, namely from the European Communities and their member States, Peru and the United States (documents IP/C/W/254, 246 and 257, respectively), in addition to the documents the Council already had had before it from Brazil, India, Japan, Mauritius (on behalf of the African Group), Singapore and the United States (documents IP/C/W/164, 161, 236 and 206, JOB(00)/7583 and IP/C/W/209, respectively). Members had continued their discussion on both a number of substantive issues and a number of procedural questions relating to how the Council should handle its further work on this matter. The Council also had had a discussion about the extent to which all the issues that had been raised under Article 27.3(b) should be pursued in that context or whether some might more suitably form part of the items to be taken up in the context of the review of the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement under Article 71.1. The Council had agreed that the Secretariat should re-issue the illustrative list of questions it had circulated in December 1998 upon a request from the Council and invited Members who had not yet done so to provide responses, in particular developing countries. He informed the Council that the Secretariat had re-issued this list of questions as document IP/C/W/273, which also contained the synoptic tables that had been prepared in May 1999 reflecting the responses to the questionnaire received by that time. The Secretariat had received one new response to this questionnaire, namely from Estonia, which had been circulated in document IP/C/W/125/Add.20. New papers had been received from Switzerland and Norway (circulated in documents IP/C/W/284 and IP/C/W/293, respectively).
