2.11. The Chairman recalled that, at its meeting in June 2012, he had informed the Council that Montenegro had become a new Member of the WTO, and that it had agreed to apply the TRIPS Agreement no later than the date of its accession to the WTO, without recourse to any transitional period. The Council had agreed to revert to the arrangements for the review of its national implementing legislation once it had received Montenegro's initial notification of its TRIPS implementation. As indicated under item 1, Montenegro had now made its initial notification of its TRIPS implementing laws and regulations.
2.12. In scheduling the review of the implementing legislation of Montenegro, the Council should reserve enough time for other Members to prepare questions to be posed to it in the context of that review. The Council would also need to ensure that Montenegro has sufficient time to prepare its responses. Accordingly, he suggested that the Council schedule the review for the Council's third meeting in 2013, which had tentatively been pencilled in for 10-11 October 2013.
2.13. In accordance with the standard procedures for the review, he proposed that the Council set the following target dates for the submission of questions and answers in that review:
- questions should normally be submitted to Montenegro, with a copy to the Secretariat, 10 weeks before the meeting in which the review takes place; accordingly, he suggested a target date of 1 August 2013;
- responses to questions posed within that deadline should normally be submitted four weeks before the meeting; accordingly, he suggested a target date of 12 September 2013.
