From the beginning of the project it was recognised that in addition to providing assistance to the members of the Group as a whole, the Adviser should be available to assist individual delegations or small groups of like-minded delegations with advice on any WTO-related issue. It was further agreed that such advice should be treated as confidential. Where the assistance was provided through the preparation of papers it should be left to the delegation(s) involved to decide whether they should be made available to all members of the Group.