RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/PSI/N/1
31March 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-0764)
PRESHIPMENT INSPECTION
Notifications under Article 5oftheAgreement onPreshipment Inspection
Article 5oftheAgreement onPreshipment Inspection provides thatMembers shallsubmit
totheSecretariat copies ofthelawsandregulations bywhich theyputthisAgreement intoforce, as
wellascopies ofanyother lawsandregulations relating topreshipment inspection, when theWTO
Agreement enters intoforcewithrespect totheMember concerned. Changes inthelawsandregulations
relating topreshipment inspection shallbenotified totheSecretariat immediately aftertheirpublication.
TheSecretariat shallinform theMembers oftheavailability ofthisinformation.
Asof23March 1995, thefollowing notifications hadbeenreceived bytheSecretariat1:
I. Laws andregulations putting theAgreement onPreshipment Inspection intoforce:
European Union: Regulation(EC)3287/94onpreshipmentinspectionforexportsfromtheCommunity
togiveeffect totheWTO Agreement (inthethree WTO languages).
II. Other lawsandregulations relating topreshipment inspection
Japan: alawrelating topreshipment inspection (intheJapanese language only).
III. Members notifying thattheyhavenolawsorregulations relating topreshipment inspection
Chile
Hong Kong
1Available forconsultation intheWTO, Centre William Rappard (Office 2016).