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GENERAL COUNCIL
31January 1995
DECISIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FORWARDED TOTHE WTO
BYTHE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE
Action bytheGeneral Council
Thepresent document hasbeenprepared bytheSecretariat under itsownresponsibility for
reference bydelegations. Itcontains alistofspecific points embodied intheReport ofthePreparatory
Committee onwhich theGeneral Council isexpected totakeaction upon adoption oftheReport as
awhole.
Itshould benoted thatanumber ofpoints forwarded totheWTO bythePreparatory Committee
appear asspecific items ontheproposed Agenda forthefirstmeeting oftheGeneral Council:
- item4,sub-items AtoH;
- item5;
- item6;
- item7A(1)and(2),and7B(adoption ofterms ofreference)
- item11
A. Decisions adopted bythePreparatory Committee which concern theWTO andother Decisions
adopted bythePreparatory Committee andbytheCONTRACTING PARTIES toGATT 1947
Decisions concerning theWTO
- Report oftheCommittee onBudget, Finance andAdministration (PC/6)
- Measures toDealwithMembers inCategory IVoftheAdministrative Arrangements
onArrears (PC/7)
- Financial Obligations ofStates orSeparate Customs Territories whoareObservers
totheWTO (PC/8)
- Extension ofthemandate oftheteamnegotiating theHeadquarters Agreement (PC/R,
paragraph 16)
- Decision onthefinancial rules andregulations oftheWTO (PC/R, paragraph 17)
- Decision ontheseatoftheWTO (PC/R, paragraph 14)
- Management ofAccession Negotiations (PC/2)WT/GC/W/3
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Decisions adopted bythePreparatory Committee andtheCONTRACTING PARTIES toGATT
1947
- Transitional Co-existence oftheGATT 1947 andtheWTO Agreement (PC/12)
- Transitional Co-existence oftheAgreement onImplementation ofArticle VIofthe
General Agreement onTariffs andTrade andtheMarrakesh Agreement Establishing
theWorld Trade Organization (PC/13)
- Committee onAnti-Dumping Practices (PC/14)
- Transitional Co-existence oftheAgreement onInterpretation andApplication of
Articles VI,XVIandXXIII oftheGeneral Agreement onTariffs andTrade andthe
Marrakesh Agreement Establishing theWorld Trade Organization (PC/15)
- Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures (PC/16)
B. Matters referred bythePreparatory Committee totheWTO which concern theGeneral Council.
- Relationship between theInternational Trade Centre andtheWTO (PC/R, paragraph 24)
- Arrangements withrespect torelations withother international intergovernmental andnon-
governmental organizations (PC/R, paragraphs 59and74)
- Requests forobserver status intheWTO received bytheChairman oftheCommittee from
thefollowing organizations: ACP, EBRD, EFTA, FAO, GulfStates Cooperation Council
(GCC), OECD, ITCB, SELA, UNIDO andtheWorld Tourism Organization (PC/R,
paragraph 53).
- Interest oftheOECD, SELA andtheWorld Tourism Organization toconclude formal
cooperation arrangements withtheWTO (PC/R, paragraph 56).
- Interest expressed bynon-governmental organizations infollowing theWTO 'sworkinspecific
areas (PC/R, paragraph 57)
- Guidelinesforobserverstatusforinternationalintergovernmentalorganizations(PC/IPL/W/14)
- Suggestions fortheinclusion ofadditional items ontheagenda oftheWTO 'swork programme
(PC/R, paragraph 82)
C. Matters referred bythePreparatory Committee totheWTO which concern WTO bodies other
thantheGeneral Council
- Thereport oftheconsultants ontheManagement Review (PC/R, paragraph 25)
- Thechoice ofalogofortheWTO (PC/R, paragraph 28)
- Notification formats andprocedures, ascontained inthefollowing documents for:
- Agriculture, PC/IPL/12, attachment tothereport;WT/GC/W/3
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- Sanitary andPhyto-Sanitary Measures, PC/IPL/6, paragraphs 1,2,3and4;
- Anti-Dumping, PC/IPL/11, Annexes 6and7;
- Subsidies andCountervailing Measures, PC/IPL/11, Annexes 1to7;
- TRIPS, PC/IPL/7, paragraph 9;
- TRIMs, PC/IPL/8, paragraphs 2,4and5;and
- Technical Barriers toTrade, PC/IPL/10 (Rev.1 inEnglish only),
- Procedures forarbitration under Article 8.5oftheAgreement onSubsidies andCountervailing
Measures (non-paper 3247, andPC/R paragraph 47)
- Establishment oftheAppellate Body (PC/R, paragraph 49)
- Rules ofEthical Conduct inthesettlement ofdisputes (PC/R, paragraph 50)
- Relations between theWTO andWIPO (PC/R, paragraph 55)
- Thequestion ofthePSIindependent entity (PC/R, paragraph 58)
- Draft Guidelines fornotifications under theGATS, andthework doneintheareaofServices
(PC/SCS/W/8, andPC/R paragraphs 70and72)
- Thework doneintheareaofTrade andEnvironment, thefuture programme ofwork, aswell
asthequestion ofcontinuation ofconsultations withregard toappropriate arrangements for
relations withnon-governmental organizations (PC/R, paragraphs 74and80)
- TheRules ofProcedure fortheDispute Settlement Body andtheTrade Policy Review Body
(PC/IPL/9)
- Therecommendations inparagraphs 7(c)and7(f)ofPC/7, concerning administrative measures
tobeapplied toMembers with three years ormore ofunpaid contributions (PC/R,
paragraph 26).