GATT/AIR/3570/REV.1 11 APRIL 1994

 

SUBJECT: COMMITTEE ON TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE

1. THE COMMITTEE ON TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE WILL HOLD ITS NEXT MEETING ON WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 1994. THE MEETING WILL BEGIN AT 10 A.M. IN THE CENTRE WILLIAM RAPPARD.

2. THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE PROPOSED FOR THE AGENDA:

2.1 ELECTION OF OFFICERS;

2.2 STATEMENTS ON IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE AGREEMENT. AMONG THE ISSUES THAT SIGNATORIES HAVE INDICATED THAT THEY WISH TO RAISE AT THE MEETING ARE:

(I) KOREAN MARKS OF ORIGIN SYSTEM (TBT/NOTIFS.91.194, 92.7, 93.34 AND 93.164; TBT/M/45, PP. 3-10; AND TBT/W/176);

(II) MEXICAN RULES FOR THE IMPORTATION OF MEAT (TBT/M/45, P. 11);

2.3 CIRCULATION OF NOTIFICATIONS TO PARTIES (TBT/M/45, PP. 14-15; AND TBT/W/183);

2.4 ISO/IEC GUIDE 59 - CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE FOR STANDARDIZATION (TBT/W/178);

2.5 OTHER BUSINESS.

3. THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING WERE CIRCULATED IN DOCUMENT TBT/M/45. ATTENTION IS DRAWN ALSO TO THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT, WHICH HAS BEEN ISSUED SINCE THE LAST MEETING: TBT/W/181 - DERESTRICTION OF DOCUMENTS.

4. SIGNATORIES OF THE AGREEMENT AND OBSERVERS ARE REQUESTED TO INFORM ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OF THE NAMES OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES.

5. OBSERVERS FROM THE IMF, UNCTAD, ITC (UNCTAD/GATT), ISO, IEC, FAO/WHO CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION AND THE INTERNATIONAL OFFICE OF EPIZOOTICS (OIE) ARE BEING INVITED BY THE CHAIRMAN TO ATTEND THIS MEETING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURES ADOPTED BY THE COMMITTEE (TBT/M/2).

 

 

PETER D. SUTHERLAND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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