WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/MA/NTM/QR/1/Add.7
16 June 2000
(00-2419)
Committee on Market Access
NOTIFICATIONS OF QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS
Note by the Secretariat
Addendum
1. Following the Decision on Notifi cation Procedures for Quantitative Restrictions, adopted by the
Council for Trade in Goods (G/L/59), Members shall make comple te notifications of the quantitative
restrictions which they maintain by 31 January 1996 and at two-yearly intervals thereafter, and shall
notify changes to their quantitative restrictions as and when these changes occur.  Members which have
made, under other WTO provisions, notifications of quantitative restrictions which fulfil the
requirements for quantitative restriction notifica tions under the 1984 and 1985 decisions and which are
up-to-date, shall notify the fact to the Secretariat.  These notifications will be stored in the new database
of quantitative restrictions.
2. According to the Decision, "the Secretariat shall publish   periodically  a document listing the
WTO Members having made a notification.  The Secretariat shall make available to Members, as and
when requested, on paper or computer tape, detailed extracts of the quantitative restrictions data base.The notifications themselves shall be available for consultation in the Secretariat."
3. In addition to those Members listed in G/MA/NTM/QR/1, Add.1 - A dd.6, notifications of
quantitative restrictions have also been received from the following Members:
Estonia Kyrgyz Republic
Guatemala MacauHaiti Mongolia
Hungary Tunisia
Iceland United Arab Emirates
4. Notifications of changes to their quantitative restrictions were received by the following
Members:
EEC Norway
Maldives Turkey
Malta
5. Members that have not yet not notified under th e Decision contained in G/L/59 are urged to do
so as soon as possible.
6. These notifications are available for Members' consultation in the Market Access Division
(contact Mrs. Perrin, Room 3142, ext. 5041).
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