64. The representative of Australia, responding in part to the question posed by the representative of Argentina, informed the Council that her country was one of those Members still in the process of preparing responses to the Checklist. Her delegation regretted the delay but had found it to be a long and complicated task. She hoped to provide the answers in as short a time as possible. Her delegation shared the aims of Mexico and others in ensuring that this exercise was useful, provided good quality information to Members about the various regimes employed and, for that reason, queried whether the EC proposal was the best way to achieve that. In the view of her delegation, reduction of the volume of information, especially when comparing a range of different models, would not necessarily give the most accurate picture of how Members protected geographical indications. This was especially true in this case, where there was such a wide range of approaches, all of which fully met the TRIPS obligations in question. There was not a single model or series of indicators or flags that would give the same picture across a number of jurisdictions. This was why her delegation queried whether this was the way to make the information more readily accessible to users.
