81. The representative of the United States agreed with the first comment by the European Communities, that Article 70.8 should be kept on the agenda and should be an important topic for the next meeting of the TRIPS Council. He expressed disagreement, however, with the Canadian delegation and believed that it was premature to begin considering questions of non-violation dispute settlement cases. The Council had five years for the examination of this matter and this year already had many other important issues to turn its attention to.
