RESTRICTED
PREPARATORY COMMITTEE PC/W/27
FOR THE 20December 1994
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
(94-2863)
MEMBERSHIP OFSLOVENIA INTHE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO)
Report tothePreparatory Committee
TheWorking Party ontheMembership ofSlovenia intheWorld Trade Organization (WTO),
inpursuance oftheMinisterial Decision of14April onAcceptance ofandAccession totheWTO and
oftheDecision of31May1994 ofthePreparatory Committee fortheWTO, andonthebasis ofthe
documentationsubmittedbytheGovernmentofSloveniaindocumentsPC/W/31,Spec(94)45andL/7576
hasexamined those aspects oftheforeign traderégime ofSlovenia relevant tomembership intheWTO.
TheWorking Party meton27September andon7-8November 1994andcompleted theexamination
oftheforeign trade régime ofSlovenia on19December 1994. Theexamination hasaddressed in
particular theconformity oftheforeign traderégime ofSlovenia withtheobligations setoutinGATT
1994, intheAgreement onTrade Related Aspects ofIntellectual Property Rights andintheGeneral
Agreements onTrade inServices.
Theservices schedule ofSlovenia circulated indocument PC/W/31 wasdeemed verified on
15December 1994.
Themarket access schedule (XCVI) ofSlovenia toWTO wasdeemed verified on16December
1994.
Therefore, subject totheapproval bythePreparatory Committee oftherespective market access
schedule which willbeannexed totheGATT 1994 andtheschedule ofservices commitments which
willbeannexed totheGATS, theWorking Party considers thatuponacceptance oftheWTO Agreement,
Slovenia could bedeemed tohave fulfilled therequirements formembership intheWorld Trade
Organization setoutinArticle XIthereof.
Furthermore, theWorking Party notes thatinorder toqualify fororiginal membership of
WTO andhavefullmember status from theentry intoforce oftheWTO, Slovenia willberequired
toaccept theWTO Agreement prior tothedateofentry intoforce oftheWTO, i.e.before 1January
1995.