PC/AIR/40 11 NOVEMBER 1994

GATT/AIR/3652

SUBJECT: IMPLEMENTATION CONFERENCE

1. IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 3 OF THE FINAL ACT EMBODYING THE RESULTS OF THE URUGUAY ROUND OF MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS, THE CONFERENCE TO DECIDE ON THE INTERNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RESULTS, INCLUDING THE TIMING OF THEIR ENTRY INTO FORCE (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE IMPLEMENTATION CONFERENCE), WILL BE HELD ON 8 DECEMBER 1994, AT 10 A.M. IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE, GENEVA.

2. AS INDICATED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE TRADE NEGOTIATIONS COMMITTEE IN HIS CONCLUDING REMARKS AT THE MINISTERIAL MEETING IN MARRAKESH (MTN.TNC/45(MIN) AND CORR.1 AND 2), THE IMPLEMENTATION CONFERENCE WILL COMMENCE WITH A MEETING OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE AT SENIOR OFFICIALS LEVEL, TO BE FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER BY THE CONTRACTING PARTIES TO GATT 1947 MEETING IN SPECIAL SESSION.

3. THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE PROPOSED FOR THE AGENDA:

A. ACTION RELATING TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

(i) DATE OF ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE WTO AGREEMENT;

(ii) CONSIDERATION OF THE DRAFT REPORT OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TO THE WTO, INCLUDING ACTION, AS APPROPRIATE, ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE "DECISION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE" AND THE "DECISION ON TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT" (MTN.TNC/45(MIN) AND CORR.1 AND 2, ANNEXES II AND IV);

B. ACTION RELATING TO GATT 1947

THE SIXTH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES TO GATT 1947 REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH 2 ABOVE, WILL ACT, AS APPROPRIATE, ON THE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS MADE TO IT BY THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE UNDER PARAGRAPH 3A(ii) ABOVE.

4. MEMBERS AND OBSERVERS OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE, GOVERNMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE WORK OF THE TRADE NEGOTIATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE URUGUAY ROUND NEGOTIATIONS AND CONTRACTING PARTIES TO GATT 1947 AND OBSERVERS TO THE SESSIONS OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO INFORM ME OF THE NAMES OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES TO THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE AND THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES. WITH RESPECT TO THE LATTER, CREDENTIALS AUTHORIZING CONTRACTING PARTIES' REPRESENTATIVES TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS INDICATED IN ARTICLE XXV OF THE GENERAL AGREEMENT, AS PROVIDED FOR UNDER RULE 7 OF THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES, SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO THE SECRETARIAT NOT LATER THAN THURSDAY, 1 DECEMBER 1994.

PETER D. SUTHERLAND

 

 

 

 

 

 

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