WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONGPA/W/110
7 March 2000
(00-0867)
Committee on Government Procurement
PROCEDURES FOR FUTURE CHANGES TO THE LOOSE-LEAF SYSTEM
FOR APPENDICES TO THE AGREEMENT
Note by the Secretariat
The Appendices to the Agreement in the form of a loose-leaf system established pursuant to
the Decision of the Committee, of 4 June 1996, were certified on 1 March 2000 (WT/Let/330).  In
accordance with the procedures agreed by the Committee at its meeting of 24 February 1997, Parties
proposing to make future rectifications and modifications to their Appendices pursuant to theprovisions of Article XXIV:6 should notify them to the Committee in the form of relevant
replacement or additional pages to be inserted in the loose-leaf system, identifying the proposed
changes (GPA/M/5).
It is suggested that Parties notify pages showing changes by using the conventional
bold/red-line system to indicate additions/deletions.  To avoid confusion, Parties might also notify
clean pages as they would look after acceptance of the rectifications or modifications in question.  In
addition to the above, Parties are also free, if they  so wish, to continue to describe the changes in
accordance with past practice.
As hitherto, the proposed rectifications and modifications will be circulated to Members in
the GPA/W/- series.  Once they have become effective pursuant to the procedures underArticle XXIV:6, the new or amended pages will be  certified.  Certified true copies of these
replacement or additional pages will be circulated in  the WT/Let/- series of documents with a cover
note indicating where the insertions (and/or deletions) are to be made in the loose-leaf system.  At the
foot of each new or replacement page will be indicated its date, which will be that on which the
changes recorded in it became effective and the sy mbol of the document with which the certifications
was transmitted (WT/Let/...).  In the initial version of the loose-leaf system, all pages bear the date
that the loose-leaf system became effective (1 March 2000).
In addition to being made available in hard-copy  form, the loose-leaf system is circulated to
Parties and other WTO Members in electronic form through the WTO Document DisseminationFacility.  A copy of the loose-leaf system for the Appendices is also being made available to the
general public through the government procurement site on the WTO Home Page on the Internet.
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