4. The Chairperson recalled that the Council, at its meeting of 27 February 1997, had agreed to revert to the issue of notifications under Article 4(d) in the autumn while noting the existence of the informal background note by the Secretariat entitled "The Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment Clause of the TRIPS Agreement (Article 4)". In the light of the discussions at that Council meeting, a third revision of the note had been circulated on 20 March 1997, as document No. 1548. The last paragraph of this note was intended as an informal guideline to assist individual Members in making or reviewing their notifications under Article 4(d). As agreed, the Council would take stock of the situation at the present meeting in the light of any new or revised notifications that had been made.
5. She informed the Council that, while the Secretariat had not received any revised versions of notifications that had already been made prior to the Council meeting in February, a joint notification, under Article 4(d), had been received from Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. This notification concerned the Cartagena Agreement and had been distributed as document IP/N/4/BOL/1, IP/N/4/COL/1, IP/N/4/ECU/1, IP/N/4/PER/1 and IP/N/4/VEN/2.
