. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/L/443
10 January 2002
(02-0110)
COMPOSITION OF THE TEXTILES MONITORING BODY
Decision of 20 December 20011
The General Council,
Decides  as follows:
1. The composition of the Textiles Monitoring Body  (TMB), as set out below, is for a period of
three years, i.e. 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2004.
2. The ten TMB members shall be appointed by the WTO Members designated from the
constituencies below.  TMB members may appoint th eir respective alternates.  The time-period for
rotation of TMB members within a constituency is to be decided by the constituencies themselves.
The constituencies are:
(a) the ASEAN Member countries;
(b) Canada and Norway;
(c) China and Pakistan (this constituency will appoint Macao, China as a second
alternate;  it will not rotate with the member or with the first alternate);
(d) the European Communities;
(e) India and Egypt/Morocco/Tunisia (India to alternate with one of the three);
(f) Japan;
(g) Korea and Hong Kong, China;
(h) Latin American and Caribbean Member countries (this constituency will appoint two
alternates);
(i) Turkey, Switzerland and Bulgaria/ Croatia/ Czech Republic/ Hungary/ Lithuania/
Poland/ Romania/ Slovak Republic/ Slovenia (this constituency will appoint two
alternates);
(j) the United States.
                                                     
1 Adopted in accordance with the Decision-Making Procedures under Articles IX and XII of the WTO
Agreement agreed by the General Council (WT/L/93).WT/L/443
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3. There will be a second alternate from a least-developed textile exporting Member in
constituency (g) which will not rotate with the member or with the first alternate.
4. Two non-participating observers will be appointed  by Members not already represented by the
arrangements in paragraphs 2 and 3, one each being designated from Africa and Asia.
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