. /.RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/L/449
30 April 2002
(02-2425)
NEW INTERNET WEBSITE FOR MEMBERS
Communication from the Secretariat
1. The purpose of this note is to inform Members that, as part of its on-going programme of
work, the recently created Trade Information Centre, in cooperation with WTO divisions, is unveiling
a new website to facilitate access to selected WTO information.
Timing and Feedback
2. The new Members' website, available as of Wednesday 1 May 2002, will run in parallel with
the existing Members' website for a period of two weeks. During this time, Delegations are invited to
visit the new site and communicate to the Secretariat any changes and/or improvements that they
deem appropriate.  At the end of the testing phase, the existing Members' site will be replaced by thenew Members' Web site.  All comments and suggestions should be directed by e-mail to:
members@wto.org
Directions
3. The Internet address of the new website is: http://members.wto.org/test/members .
Information about the new site is obtainable by clicking on the link "New Members' site" in the
existing website (http://members.wto.org).
Access Rights
4. Access to the Members site is password protecte d.  In keeping with established  procedures,
Members not yet in possession of a password are urged to contact the Secretariat via their Heads of
Delegation in Geneva.  The contact point in the Secretariat is Mr. John Dickson, Assistant DocumentSystems Manager.  Telephone: +41 22 739 5122, e-mail: john.dickson@wto.org
Scope
5. Members are reminded that both the new and existing Members sites are separate from the
public WTO website (http://www.wto.org).  The existing Members' website was created some yearsago to provide Members with information not otherwise accessible via the public WTO web site, i.e.
restricted documents, internal documents, specific data resources, etc.  The logic behind the new
Members' website remains the same:  it is reserved exclusively for the use of WTO Members and
contains information and/or compilations of data that are not readily available on the WTO web site.
Contents
6. The new site is organised into different sections, each corresponding to specific types of
information.
Under WTO resources are grouped the different databases available to Members.  These
include: Documents online  (for public, restricted and external job documents (JOB(`02)/…); aWT/L/449
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gateway to the Integrated Data Base , which is protected by an additional password at the request of
Delegations, and an interface for accessing services data ( Services Schedules Online) .  The existing
Market Access Schedules  section has been completely revised and expanded to include the original
Uruguay Round Schedules of Concessions on Goods.  The Publications  section, likewise, has been
re-developed and two completely new resources added: an information section on  Notifications  and
a test online version of the trilingual terminology, WTOTERM .  The Statistics section on the original
Members' site has been suppressed since these data are freely available on the WTO website at:
http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statisTrade statistics.
Forthcoming meetings is a completely new departure on the site.  It provides access to the
weekly schedule of official WTO meetings  and also serves as a dissemination point for
miscellaneous documents  relating to upcoming conferences, seminars, symposia and workshops
organized by the WTO Secretariat.
Assistance
7. Assistance on the use of the Members' site and its component parts is available upon request
to the Secretariat. Enquiries regarding the site as  a whole should be directed to Document Systems
Section (Language Services & Documentation Division) - tel. 022 739 5122, e-mailmembers@wto.org. For assistance in specific subject areas, please refer to the contacts  page in the
respective section of the site.
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