GATT/AIR/3376/REV.1 7 DECEMBER 1992

SUBJECT: COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES - TRADE POLICY REVIEW MECHANISM:

REVIEWS OF ROMANIA, POLAND AND THE PHILIPPINES

 

1. DOCUMENT GATT/AIR/3376, DATED 24 NOVEMBER 1992, ANNOUNCED THAT SPECIAL MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES WOULD BE HELD ON 14-15 AND 17-18 DECEMBER IN THE CENTRE WILLIAM RAPPARD, TO CONDUCT TRADE POLICY REVIEWS OF POLAND AND ROMANIA.

2. FOR TECHNICAL REASONS, THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES TO CONDUCT THE TRADE POLICY REVIEW OF POLAND HAS BEEN POSTPONED AT THE REQUEST OF THE DELEGATION OF POLAND. THIS NOTICE SETS OUT A REVISED SCHEDULE OF TRADE POLICY REVIEW MEETINGS COVERING DECEMBER 1992 AND JANUARY 1993.

3. THE PROPOSED REVISED SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS IS AS FOLLOWS:

THURSDAY, 17 DECEMBER, 3 P.M. AND FRIDAY, 18 DECEMBER, 10 A.M.: ROMANIA.

MONDAY, 11 JANUARY 1993, 3 P.M. AND TUESDAY, 12 JANUARY, 10 A.M.: POLAND.

WEDNESDAY, 20 JANUARY, 3 P.M. AND THURSDAY, 21 JANUARY, 10 A.M.: THE PHILIPPINES.

4. ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTATION AVAILABLE FOR THESE MEETINGS:

C/RM/14 ARRANGEMENTS FOR REVIEW MEETING: ROMANIA

C/RM/15 ARRANGEMENTS FOR REVIEW MEETINGS: POLAND AND THE 

PHILIPPINES

C/RM/G/32 INITIAL FULL REPORT BY ROMANIA

C/RM/S/32A ROMANIA: REPORT BY THE SECRETARIAT (TEXT)

C/RM/S/32B ROMANIA: REPORT BY THE SECRETARIAT (TABLES)

C/RM/G/31 INITIAL FULL REPORT BY POLAND

C/RM/S/31A POLAND: REPORT BY THE SECRETARIAT (TEXT)

C/RM/S/31B POLAND: REPORT BY THE SECRETARIAT (TABLES)

C/RM/G/33 INITIAL FULL REPORT BY THE PHILIPPINES

C/RM/S/33 THE PHILIPPINES: REPORT BY THE SECRETARIAT (TEXT

AND TABLES)

5. DELEGATIONS ARE REMINDED THAT:

"TO FACILITATE THE DISCUSSIONS, THE CONTRACTING PARTIES WISHING TO DO SO COULD GIVE ADVANCE NOTICE IN WRITING OF THE POINTS THEY WISH TO BE RAISED AT THE REVIEW SESSION SO THAT THE CONTRACTING PARTY UNDER REVIEW IS IN A BETTER POSITION TO PREPARE ITS REPLIES. IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS

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WOULD NOT LIMIT IN ANY WAY THE SCOPE OF DISCUSSIONS AT THE COUNCIL SESSION." (C/W/607).

IT WOULD BE APPRECIATED IF ANY SUCH POINTS COULD REACH THE SECRETARIAT NO LATER THAN ONE WEEK BEFORE THE RELEVANT COUNCIL MEETINGS, I.E. BY THURSDAY, 10 DECEMBER 1992 FOR ROMANIA; BY MONDAY, 4 JANUARY 1993 FOR POLAND AND BY WEDNESDAY, 13 JANUARY 1993 FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

6. MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, OTHER CONTRACTING PARTIES, OTHER GOVERNMENTS WITH OBSERVER STATUS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS WITH OBSERVER STATUS ARE ALSO INVITED TO INFORM ME OF THE NAMES OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES BY THE DATES MENTIONED ABOVE.

A. DUNKEL