RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE WT/REG7/2
5January 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-0009)
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN
LATVIA AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Chairman: Tobedesignated
Terms ofReference1
"Toexamine, inlightoftherelevant provisions oftheGATT 1994, theFreeTrade Agreement
between Latvia andtheEuropean Communities andtosubmit areport totheCouncil forTrade
inGoods."
Membership
TheWorking Party willbeopentoallMembers oftheWTO andother signatories oftheFinal
Actthatarecontracting parties totheGATT 1947 andareeligible tobecome original Members of
theWTO indicating theirwishtoserve onit.
1ThesetermsofreferencewereadoptedinthemeetingoftheCouncilforTradeinGoodsheldon26September
1995, along withtheattached understanding readoutbytheChairman atthatmeeting.
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ATTACHMENT
Understanding readoutbyChairman oftheCouncil forTrade inGoods -26September 1995
Itisunderstood thatthestatement readoutbytheChairman oftheCouncil forTrade inGoods
under item7oftheAgenda ofitsmeeting on20February 1995, ascontained indocument WT/REG3/1,
applies mutatis mutandis tothisworking party. Itisalsounderstood that,during theexamination,
dueaccount willbetaken oftheintrinsic differences between customs unions andfree-trade areas.