WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SCM/27
16 May 2000
(00-2002)
Committee on Subsidies
and Countervailing Measures
COMMITTEE DECISIONS CONCERNING SUBSIDY NOTIFICATIONS
Note from the Chairman
At its 9-10 May meeting, the Committee agreed as follows:
1. Each Member with any subsidy notifications ou tstanding undertakes to bring itself fully up to
date with its notification obligations, including for its 2000 updating notification, before the end of thesummer break.  It is suggested that Members with more than one notification due could make a single
"best efforts" notification covering all of the time periods for which notifications are due, putting most
emphasis on the most recent periods.
2. The Working Party on Subsidy Notifications will be reconvened to seek a longer-term
solution to the problem of compliance with the su bsidy notification obligations.  A meeting of the
Working Party will be held back-to-back with the Committee's regular autumn meeting to take place
during the week of 6 November 2000.  Members are invited to submit proposals for consideration by
the Working Party.
Any proposals should be submitted to the to the Secretary of the Working Party (Ms. Clarisse
Morgan), and will be circulated to the Working Party as received.
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