RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/REG/W/42
2 February 2001
(01-0541)
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements
SCHEDULE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF BIENNIAL REPORTS ON
THE OPERATION OF REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS IN 2001
Note by the Secretariat
1. To fulfil item 1(b) of its Terms of Reference, the Committee on Regional Trade
Agreements (CRTA) adopted, on 20 February 1998, recommendations to the Council for Trade in
Goods (CTG), contained in document WT/REG/4, wi th respect to how the required reporting on the
operation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) should be carried out.  These recommendations have
been approved by the CTG at its meeting of 30 November 1998 (G/L/286).
2. In accordance with paragraph 4 of document G/L/286, "an updated time-table for the
submission of biennial reports" is to be regularly submitted to both the CTG and the CRTA.  The
schedule for the submission of the required reports on 21 RTAs in 2001 is contained below.
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Reports due on 31 July 2001 (21)1
Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (ANZCERTA)
Australia-Papua New Guinea Agreement (PATCRA)
Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)
Central American Common Market (CACM)
Czech/Slovak Customs Union
European Communities (EC)/Algeria
EC/CyprusEC/Egypt
EC/Iceland
EC/Jordan
EC/Lebanon
EC/MaltaEC/Norway
EC/Certain Non-European C ountries and Territories II
EC/Syria
EC/Switzerland and Liechtenstein
European Free Trade Association (EFTA)EFTA/Czech Rep.
EFTA/Slovak Rep.
EFTA/Turkey
United States/Israel
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1 Reports of the RTAs between EC/Israel, EC/Morocco and EC/Tunisia are no longer due given that
those agreements have been superseded by respectively three Euro-Mediterranean agreements which are currentlyunder examination in the CRTA.