 
  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/REG170/1 
19 August 2004 
 (04-3479) 
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements  
  
 
ENLARGEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 
 
Terms of Reference of the Examination
 
 
 
Terms of Reference adopted on 5 July 2004  
  "To examine, in light of the relevant provisions of the GATT 1994, the Enlargement of the European Union and to submit a report to the Council for Trade in Goods".   
 
Understanding read out by the Chairman of the Council for Trade in Goods 
 
at its meeting of 5 July 2004  
  It is understood that the understanding read out by the Chairman of the Council for Trade in Goods under Item 7 of the agenda of the meeting of the Council for Trade in Goods on 
20 February 1995, as contained in document WT/REG3/1, will apply mutatis mutandis  to the 
examination of the agreement.  It is also unders tood that, during the examin ation, due account will be 
taken of the intrinsic differences between customs unions and free-trade areas.  
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