GATT/AIR/2802 27 JUNE 1989

SUBJECT: URUGUAY ROUND NEGOTIATING GROUP ON AGRICULTURE:

FOURTEENTH MEETING,10-12 JULY 1989

1. THE ABOVE-MENTIONED MEETING WILL BE HELD IN THE CENTRE WILLIAM RAPPARD AND WILL BEGIN AT 3 P.M. ON MONDAY 10 JULY 1989.

2. THE FOLLOWING AGENDA IS PROPOSED FOR THIS MEETING OF THE GROUP:

A. AGGREGATE MEASUREMENT OF SUPPORT INCLUDING GUIDELINES TO FACILITATE THE FURTHER WORK OF THE TECHNICAL GROUP AND PROGRESS GENERALLY IN THIS AREA;

B. INITIATION OF DETAILED CONSIDERATION OF STRENGTHENED AND MORE OPERATIONALLY EFFECTIVE GATT RULES AND DISCIPLINES;

C. TARIFFICATION, DECOUPLED SUPPORT AND OTHER WAYS TO ADAPT SUPPORT AND PROTECTION, INCLUDING DEFINITION OF THE BASIC ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED IN RELATION TO EACH OF THESE TOPICS;

D. THE MODALITIES OF SPECIAL AND DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

E. CONSIDERATION OF WAYS TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE POSSIBLE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF THE REFORM PROCESS ON NET FOOD-IMPORTING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

F. SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY REGULATIONS;

G. MATTERS RELATING TO OR AFFECTING THE OBSERVANCE OF STATUS QUO COMMITMENTS, IF ANY (PARAGRAPH 17 OF THE MID-TERM REVIEW DECISION ON AGRICULTURE);

H. SHORT-TERM ELEMENTS: FURTHER CONSIDERATION AS NECESSARY OF PROCEDURAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS;

I. SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS IN 1989, INCLUDING DATE OF NEXT MEETING.

J. OTHER BUSINESS.

3. GOVERNMENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WHICH WISH TO BE REPRESENTED AT THIS MEETING ARE INVITED TO INFORM ME OF THE NAMES OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

A. DUNKEL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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