WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/REG/W/48
21 November 2003
(03-6209)
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements
Thirty-Fifth Session
SCHEDULE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF BIENNIAL REPORTS ON
THE OPERATION OF REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS IN 2004
Note by the Secretariat
1. To fulfil item 1(b) of its Terms of Reference, the Committee on Regional Trade
Agreements (CRTA) adopted, on 20 February 1998, recommendations to the Council for Trade in
Goods (CTG), contained in document WT/REG/4, wi th respect to how the required reporting on the
operation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) should be carried out.  These recommendations were
approved by the CTG at its meeting of 30 November 1998 (G/L/286).
2. In accordance with paragraph 4 of document G/L/286, "an updated time-table for the
submission of biennial reports" is to be regularly submitted to both the CTG and the CRTA.
3. At its Thirty-Third Session, the Committee decided to shift of one year, to 2004, the next
submission of biennial reports, in particular to take into account the 2003 workload due to
preparations for the Ministerial Conference in Cancún.  The schedule for the submission of the
required reports on 19 RTAs in 2004 is contained below.
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Reports due on 31 July 2004 (19)1
Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (ANZCERTA)
Australia-Papua New Guinea Agreement (PATCRA)
Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)Central American Common Market (CACM)
Czech/Slovak Customs Union
European Communities (EC)/Algeria
EC/Cyprus
EC/EgyptEC/Iceland
EC/Malta
EC/Norway
EC/Certain Non-European C ountries and Territories II
EC/SyriaEC/Switzerland and Liechtenstein
European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
EFTA/Czech Rep.
EFTA/Slovak Rep.
EFTA/TurkeyUnited States/Israel
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1 Reports on two agreements, namely EC/Jordan and EC/Lebanon, are no longer due given that they
have been superseded by new agreements which are currently under examination in the CRTA.