RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/L/41
22November 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-3837)
Original: English
COMMITTEE ONAGRICULTURE
Report bytheChairman
Thepresent report bytheChairman oftheCommittee onAgriculture, Ambassador Danai
Tulalamba, issubmitted onhisownresponsibility asagreed bytheCommittee.
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TheCommittee onAgriculture heldfourregular meetings in1995: 27-28 March, 8June,
28-29 September and20-21 November (Secretariat summary reports ofthese meetings, G/AG/R/1
to4,refer).
TheCommittee adopted Working Procedures fortheconduct ofitswork (G(AG/1). Italso
adopted notification requirements andformats under Article 18:2andother relevant provisions ofthe
Agreement onAgriculture (G/AG/2 andAdd.1).
Inaccordance withArticle 18:1oftheAgreement onAgriculture, theCommittee, ateachof
itsmeetings, reviewed progress intheimplementation ofcommitments negotiated under theUruguay
Round reform programme. Thisreview process wasundertaken onthebasisofnotifications submitted
byMembers intheareasofmarket access, domestic support, export subsidies andunder theprovisions
oftheAgreement relating toexport prohibitions andrestrictions. TheCommittee alsoaddressed a
range ofgeneral andspecific matters relevant totheimplementation ofcommitments thatwereraised
under theprovisions ofArticle 18:6oftheAgreement. Anumber ofthematters thusraised havebeen
orcontinue tobethesubject ofinformal consultations.
TheCommittee adopted twodecisions concerning theMarrakesh Ministerial Decision onthe
Possible Negative Effects oftheReform Programme ontheLeast Developed andNetFood-Importing
Developing Countries ("the Decision"): onerelating totheestablishment bytheCommittee ofalist
ofWTO NetFood-Importing Developing Countries (G/AG/3); andtheother involving theadoption
ofapreparatory work programme inconnection withparagraph 3(i)and(ii)oftheDecision (G/AG/4).
TheCommitteemonitoredthefollow-uptotheDecisioninaccordancewithArticle16:2oftheAgreement
atitsNovember meeting.
Thefollowinginternationalintergovernmentalorganizationsarerepresented,orhavebeeninvited
toberepresented, asobservers onanadhocbasis atmeetings oftheCommittee: theUNFood and
Agriculture Organization, theUNWorld Food Programme, theInternational Grains Council andthe
Organization forEconomic Co-operation andDevelopment. Inaddition, representatives ofthe
International Monetary Fund andtheWorld Bank attended theNovember Meeting oftheCommittee
forthepurpose ofcontributing tothemonitoring exercise under Article 16:2oftheAgreement.
TheCommittee adopted thefollowing schedule fortheCommittee 'sregular meetings in1996:
28-29 March, 24-25 September, 28-29 October and28-29 November.