RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONTN/CTD/M/5/Corr.11
18 September 2002
(02-4978)
Committee on Trade and Development
Fifth Special Session
NOTE ON THE MEETING OF 2 JULY 2002
Chairman:  H.E. Mr. Ransford Smith (Jamaica)
Corrigendum
Paragraph 27 on pages 8 and 9 should read as follows:
27. The representative of Canada said that she had some comments to make on the proposals by
the African Group relating to the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.  There were
nine proposals with respect to that Agreement.  Her government questioned the statements that
implied that there had been bad faith in the delivery of S&D to developing countries.  S&D had been
an agenda item in the past six meetings of the SPS Committee, but had never effectively been
addressed until the latest meeting.  It had finally been seriously addressed in the last meeting and ajoint paper would be put forward by her delegation and possibly other Members.  The paper would
specifically look at what the Members in the Special Session were trying to deal with under
Article 12.2 of the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.  That
included additional ways in which S&D provisions could be made more effective through, among
other things, improved information flows.  She mentioned that the submission by the African Group
also included some suggestions on notification procedures, which  raised the question as to whether or
not, without prejudice to the work of the CTD in  Special Session, Members should encourage other
WTO bodies to examine ways and means to make S&D provisions more effective.  It was the Special
Session's job to look at how to make the provisions more effective.  However other Committees and
Working Groups could be tasked to look at t hose questions as well.  When considering the
communications received from other WTO bodies, it was evident that, the TRIMs Committee for
example, was taking more serious action than it had before and would be discussing S&D in thefuture.  The CTD Special Session would continue beyond the deadline of July 2002 and in its
recommendations to the General Council, she proposed that Members consider if other WTO bodies
could be engaged more actively in what the Special Session was trying to achieve under Article
12.1 (ii) of the Decision on Implementation-Relate d Issues and Concerns (WT/MIN(01)/17).  Her
delegation suggested that all appropriate WTO bodies address Article 12.1 (ii) of that Decision as aregular part of their work.
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