GATT/AIR/3593 [WP for Windows Docs]

GATT/AIR/3593 31 MAY 1994

SUBJECT: INTERIM COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT

1. THE INTERIM COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT WILL HOLD ITS FIRST MEETING ON WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE 1994. THE MEETING WILL BEGIN AT 10 A.M. IN THE CENTRE WILLIAM RAPPARD.

2. THE FOLLOWING POINTS ARE PROPOSED FOR DISCUSSION:

A. ELECTION OF OFFICERS;

B. OBSERVERS TO THE INTERIM COMMITTEE;

C. FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS AMONG SIGNATORIES ON THE EXPANSION OF COVERAGE PRIOR TO THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE AGREEMENT;

D MODIFICATIONS OF APPENDIX I TO THE AGREEMENT PRIOR TO ITS ENTRY INTO FORCE;

E. ADOPTION OF A DECISION ON ACCESSION NEGOTIATIONS PRIOR TO THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE AGREEMENT;

F. ADOPTION OF A DECISION TO ADMINISTER RECTIFICATIONS OF A PURELY FORMAL NATURE TO APPENDICES I TO IV PRIOR TO THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE AGREEMENT;

G. COMPLETION OF APPENDICES II, III AND IV TO THE AGREEMENT;

H. PROGRESS IN NATIONAL RATIFICATION PROCEDURES;

I. PUBLICATION OF THE AGREEMENT;

J. CIRCULATION OF INTERIM COMMITTEE DOCUMENTS;

K. STATISTICAL REPORTING;

L. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

M. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROCEDURAL DECISIONS BY THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT;

N. ESTABLISHMENT OF A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE NEW AGREEMENT;

O. REQUIREMENTS STEMMING FROM THE INCLUSION OF THE AGREEMENT IN ANNEX 4 OF THE WTO AGREEMENT;

P. OTHER BUSINESS.

3. SIGNATORIES OF THE AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT (1994) WISHING TO BE REPRESENTED AT THIS MEETING ARE REQUESTED TO INFORM ME OF THE NAMES OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

PETER D. SUTHERLAND

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