274. The Chairman recalled that, at its meeting of 24-25 October 2011, the Council had agreed to keep open the agenda item on non-violation and situation complaints and that the Chair continue his consultations on the matter. In the light of the consultations Ambassador González and he had held on the matter, he suggested that the Council agree to recommend, pursuant to the 2009 Ministerial Decision on "TRIPS Non-Violation and Situation Complaints" (WT/L/783), that the Eighth Session of the Ministerial Conference decide as follows:
"We take note of the work done by the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights pursuant to our Decision of 2 December 2009 on 'TRIPS Non-Violation and Situation Complaints' (WT/L/783), and direct it to continue its examination of the scope and modalities for complaints of the types provided for under subparagraphs 1(b) and 1(c) of Article XXIII of GATT 1994 and make recommendations to our next Session, which we have decided to hold in 2013. It is agreed that, in the meantime, Members will not initiate such complaints under the TRIPS Agreement."
