. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/INF/25
8 June 2000
(00-2259)
CENTRAL REGISTRY OF NOTIFICATIONS (CRN)
1. This information note is directed at Member Delegations and provides guidance on the
procedures to be followed when submitting notifications data to the Secretariat.
2. All notifications received by the Secretariat are recorded in an internal WTO computer
database known as the Central Registry of Notifications  (CRN).   Once they have been registered in
this database, they are circulated to the relevant operational Divisions within the Secretariat for action.It is essential, therefore, that Members direct  all notifications , regardless of their subject content or
the requirement under which they are being submitted to  the administrator of the CRN .
3. Notifications may be submitted on paper, by fax or as electronic attachments to e-mails.
• Notifications submitted on paper.
All notifications on paper should be addressed as follows:
World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Attention: Administrator, Central Registry of Notifications (CRN)
Centre William Rappard154 rue de Lausanne
CH-1211 GENEVA 21
Switzerland
Please do not address notifications to individual Divisions, Committees, Directors or the
Registry of the WTO.
• Notifications submitted as faxes.
All faxed notifications should be addressed as follows:World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Attention: Administrator, Central Registry of Notifications (CRN)
Fax number: +41 22 739 5638
Please do not send communications to any other fax number in the Secretariat.  The CRN has
a direct line for fax messages.
4. Notifications submitted as electronic attachments to e-mails.
Increasingly, Members are submitting notification data to CRN in electronic format.  While the
electronic transmission of data is extremely practical and swift, it is important for Members to be
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• only submit attachments as unformatted text .  Do not attempt to emulate the format
of official WTO notifications documents;  this may create problems when the data are
processed by the Secretariat.
• The address to which notifications should be sent is:
CRN@wto.org
5. Enquiries concerning notifications submitted to the Secretariat and requests for information
contained in the CRN should be addressed to the Administrator:
Mrs R. Haimbl
Office 3160
Tel: +41 22 739 5069
6. All Member agencies with responsibility for pr eparing notifications in accordance with the
requirements of the Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization  should be
informed of the procedures outlined in this information note.
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