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WORLD TRADE WT/GC/W/4
31January 1995
ORGANIZATION
(95-0176)
General Council
31January 1995
DRAFT DECISION ONTHE COMPOSITION OF
THE TEXTILES MONITORING BODY
TheGeneral Council decides asfollows:
1. Thecomposition oftheTextiles Monitoring Body assetoutbelow isforaperiod ofthreeyears
i.e.1January 1995 to31December 1997.
2. ThetenTMB members shall beappointed bytheWTO Members designated from the
constituencies below. Unless otherwise stated below, thetimeperiod forrotation ofTMB members
within aconstituency istobedecided bytheconstituencies themselves. TMB members mayappoint
theirrespective alternates.
(a) theASEAN Member countries (torotate among themselves);
(b) Canada;
(c) China** andPakistan (toalternate witheachother);
(d) theEuropean Communities;
(e) Hong Kong andKorea (toalternate witheachother);
(f) India andEgypt*/Morocco/Tunisia* (India toalternate withoneofthethree);
(g) Japan;
(h) LatinAmericanandCaribbeanMembercountries(torotateamongthemselves;thisconstituency
mayappoint asecond alternate1ifitsodecides);
1Thesecond alternate willnotrotate withthemember orwiththefirstalternate.
*Upon WTO membership.
**Intheevent thatChina doesnotbecome aWTO Member by31December 1995, aWTO Member,
tobeproposedbytheWTOMembersthataremembersoftheInternationalTextilesandClothingBureau,
shallbeincluded inthisconstituency untilsuchtimeasChina becomes aWTO Member.
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(i) inthefirstyearNorway, Turkey* andCzech Republic/Hungary/Poland*/Romania/Slovak
Republic (Norway tohavethemember); Inthesecond andthirdyears, Turkey*, Switzerland*
andCzech Republic/Hungary/Poland*/Romania/Slovak Republic. (Turkey tohavethemember
inthesecond year, themember forthethirdyeartobedecided bytheconstituency itself.)
Thisconstituency mayappoint asecond alternate, ifitsodecides;
(j) theUnited States;
3. Oneofthethree constituencies (b),(g)and(j)willinclude Switzerland* inthefirstyearand,
inthesecond andthirdyears, Norway.
4. There willbeasecond alternate1from aleast-developed textile exporting Member in
constituency (e).
5. Twonon-participating observers willbeappointed byMembers notalready represented by
thearrangements inparagraphs 2and4,oneeachbeing designated from Africa andAsia.
6. TheTextiles Monitoring Body willtakeallitsdecisions byconsensus.2
2Asprovided forinArticle 8.2oftheAgreement onTextiles andClothing, incaseofanunresolved
issue under review bytheTMB, itisunderstood thatconsensus within theTMB doesnotrequire the
assent orconcurrence ofmembers appointed byMembers involved insuchunresolved issue.