23. The Chairperson recalled that, at the previous meeting, it had been agreed that the Chair would hold further consultations with those Members that had been open to early reviews of their legislation to see if they would be in a position to have their legislation reviewed in the first part of 2000, so as to initiate the post-2000 review of legislation. It had also been agreed that consultations would be held on the practical arrangements that would need to be put in place for the reviews of the national implementing legislation of developing country Members after 1 January 2000. He reported that seven Members were prepared to have their TRIPS implementing legislation reviewed in the first part of the year 2000, namely Cyprus; Hong Kong, China; Israel; Korea; Macau; Trinidad and Tobago; and Singapore. Consultations with these Members had been held on the understanding that, in order for a review in the first part of 2000 to work, the required notifications would need to be made during 1999. Some of these Members had already made advance notifications of their legislation, but the others would need to do the same so as to allow an appropriate preparation time for the review exercise, in line with the procedures developed during the reviews of legislation carried out in 1996 and 1997. Israel had indicated that, if it could not notify before 1 January 2000, because of translation difficulties, it would do so in the early days of January 2000.
