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GENERAL AGREEMENT L/7650

9 November 1995

ON TARIFFS AND TRADE Limited Distribution

(95-3469)

CONTRACTING PARTIES

Fifty-First Session

12 December 1995

 

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

 

1. Activities of GATT

This item of the agenda will provide the CONTRACTING PARTIES with an opportunity to review developments since the Fiftieth Session. The CONTRACTING PARTIES will also consider any reports, including that of the Committee on Trade and Development, submitted to them directly and will take action on any matters not to be dealt with under other agenda items.

2. Report of the Council

Annexed is a list of the items that the Council has thus far considered and taken action on since the Fiftieth Session. When the CONTRACTING PARTIES examine the report there will be an opportunity for discussion or comment and appropriate action on any of these items. The minutes of Council meetings since the Fiftieth Session have been distributed in C/M/277 and in C/RM/M/50 and subsequent documents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The following points would be included in the report of the Council on work done since the Fiftieth Session.

 

( ) Work Program resulting from the 1982 Ministerial meeting

( ) Dispute settlement procedures

( ) Roster of non-governmental panelists

( ) Trade Policy Review Mechanism

( ) Country reviews

( ) Committee on Tariff Concessions

( ) Designation of Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson

( ) Committee on Balance-of-Payments Restrictions

( ) Designation of Chairman

( ) Programme of consultations for 1995

( ) Consultations

( ) Recourse to Articles XXII and XXIII

( ) European Economic Community

( ) Member States' import régimes for bananas

( ) Import régime for bananas

( ) United States

( ) Restrictions on imports of tuna

- Recourse by the European Communities and the Netherlands

( ) Taxes on automobiles

( ) Monitoring of implementation of panel reports under paragraph I.3 of the April 1989 Decision on improvements to the GATT dispute settlement rules and procedures

( ) Customs unions and free-trade areas; regional agreements

( ) Interim Agreements between the European Communities and Bulgaria and Romania

( ) Waivers under Article XXV:5

( ) Reports under waivers

( ) United States Agricultural Adjustment Act

( ) Switzerland - Review under Paragraph 4 of the Protocol of Accession

( ) International Trade Centre UNCTAD/GATT

( ) Report of the Joint Advisory Group

( ) Administrative and financial matters

( ) Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration

( ) Designation of Chairman

( ) Reports

( ) Appointment of presiding officers of standing bodies