173. The Chairperson informed the Council that, by means of a communication dated 7 June 2001, the United States, Denmark and the European Communities had jointly submitted a mutually agreed solution reached in the dispute settlement proceedings that the United States had initiated on 14 May 1997 on a matter concerning the obligations of the European Communities and Denmark under the TRIPS Agreement to make available prompt and effective provisional measures inaudita altera parte in civil proceedings involving intellectual property rights (IP/D/9). This mutually agreed solution had been circulated in document IP/D/9/Add.1.
