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24 September  2021 
(21-7122) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Trade Facilitation  Original: English  
 
TRADE FACILITATION AGREEMENT  FOUR YEAR REVIEW  
ARTICLE 23.1.6 OF THE TFA  
COMMUNICATION FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION  
Revision  
The following communication, dated 2 September  2021, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation s of the European Union and the Russian Federation . 
 
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The European Union and the Russian Federation suggest adding the following text to paragraph 2.7 
of Section 2 of the First Review of the Operation and Implementation of the Trade Facilitation 
Agreement Factual Report  contained in document G/TFA/W/41 : 
"WTO Members are responsible for  the maintenance of their transparency notifications. 
Regarding the official places where information under Article 1 of TFA is published, the 
Secretariat shall annually monitor the operability of the related weblinks, namely, those related 
to the implementation of Article 1.4 of TFA, and request the relevant Members to update the 
links that are identified as broken. The Sec retariat should carry out this verification notably by 
inviting the concerned Members to update the broken fields in the context of the endorsement 
of the regular report on "Updating of the listing of notification obligations and the compliance 
therewith a s set out in Annex III of the report of the working group on notification obligations 
and procedures ". 
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