RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE WT/REG18/5
13March 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-0882)
Original: English
INTERIM AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAK REPUBLIC, HUNGARY AND POLAND
Additional Protocol onTrade inTextile Products
Communication from theEuropean Communities andtheRepublic ofPoland
Thedelegations oftheEuropean Communities andtheRepublic ofPoland havethehonour
toinform themembers oftheWTO thattheAdditional Protocol onTrade inTextile Products between
theEuropean Communities andtheRepublic ofPoland, foreseen inArticle 3oftheProtocol 1tothe
Europe Agreement, hasapplied since 1January 1993. Totakeaccount ofthechanges arising from
theenlargement oftheCommunity, theAdditional Protocol wasamended bytheAgreement inthe
formofanExchange ofLetters initialled on25November 1994. Furthermore theAdditional Protocol
hadforeseen amid-term review, theresults ofwhich became applicable on1January 1996 asthe
Amendment totheAdditional Protocol.1
TheMembers oftheWTO willrecall thattheTrade inGoods aspect oftheEurope Agreement
(ascontained intheInterim Agreement) wasnotified under Article XXIV oftheGATT on3April 1992
(document L/6992).2
1TheProtocol andAmendments referred tointhiscommunication have been submitted totheSecretariat
forconsultations byinterested Members (Office 3006).
2ThetextoftheInterim Agreement hasbeen circulated asdocument L/6992/Add.1.