Dispute Settlement Body - Special Session - Minutes of Meeting - Held in the Centre William Rappard on 13 - 14 November 2003

TN/DS/M/14World Trade Organization RESTRICTED TN/DS/M/14 20 April 2004 (04-1773) Special Session of the Dispute Settlement Body 13 -14 November 2003 Minutes of Meeting Held in the Centre William Rappard on 13-14 November 2003 Chairman: Mr. Péter Balás (Hungary) Prior to the adoption of the agenda, the Chairman welcomed participants to the fourteenth formal meeting of the Special Session and said that this was the first meeting of the Special Session since the Cancún Ministerial Conference. He recalled that the General Council had agreed on 24 July 2003 that the time-frame for completion of the work was to be extended by one year, until May 2004 and that further work should build on the Chairman's text of 28 May 2003 and proposals put forward by Members. It was also agreed that the first reconvened meeting of the Special Session should be devoted to a discussion of conceptual issues. He further recalled that at the informal meeting held on 16 O