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FINAL ACT EMBODYING THE RESULTS OFTHE
URUGUAY ROUND OFMULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
1. Having metinorder toconclude theUruguay Round ofMultilateral Trade Negotiations,
representativesofthegovernmentsandoftheEuropeanCommunities,membersoftheTradeNegotiations
Committee, agree thattheAgreement Establishing theWorld Trade Organization (referred tointhis
FinalActasthe"WTO Agreement"), theMinisterial Declarations andDecisions, andtheUnderstanding
onCommitments inFinancial Services, asannexed hereto, embody theresults oftheirnegotiations
andform anintegral partofthisFinal Act.
2. Bysigning thepresent Final Act,therepresentatives agree
(a) tosubmit, asappropriate, theWTO Agreement fortheconsideration oftheirrespective
competent authorities withaviewtoseeking approval oftheAgreement inaccordance
withtheirprocedures; and
(b) toadopt theMinisterial Declarations andDecisions.
3. Therepresentatives agree onthedesirability ofacceptance oftheWTO Agreement byall
participants intheUruguay Round ofMultilateral Trade Negotiations (hereinafter referred toas
"participants") withaviewtoitsentry intoforce by1January 1995, orasearlyaspossible thereafter.
Notlaterthanlate1994, Ministers willmeet, inaccordance withthefinalparagraph ofthePunta del
EsteMinisterial Declaration, todecide ontheinternational implementation oftheresults, including
thetiming oftheirentry intoforce.
4. Therepresentatives agree thattheWTO Agreement shallbeopenforacceptance asawhole,
bysignature orotherwise, byallparticipants pursuant toArticle XIVthereof. Theacceptance and
entry intoforce ofaPlurilateral Trade Agreement included inAnnex 4oftheWTO Agreement shall
begoverned bytheprovisions ofthatPlurilateral Trade Agreement.
5. Before accepting theWTO Agreement, participants which arenotcontracting parties tothe
General Agreement onTariffs andTrade must firsthaveconcluded negotiations fortheiraccession
totheGeneral Agreement andbecome contracting parties thereto. Forparticipants which arenot
contracting parties totheGeneral Agreement asofthedateoftheFinal Act,theSchedules arenot
definitive andshall besubsequently completed forthepurpose oftheir accession totheGeneral
Agreement andacceptance oftheWTO Agreement.
6. ThisFinal Actandthetextsannexed hereto shallbedeposited withtheDirector-General to
theCONTRACTING PARTIES totheGeneral Agreement onTariffs andTrade whoshallpromptly
furnish toeachparticipant acertified copythereof.
DONE atMarrakesh thisfifteenth dayofApril onethousand ninehundred andninety-four,
inasingle copy, intheEnglish, French andSpanish languages, eachtextbeing authentic.
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