Negotiating Group on Rules - Summary Report of the Meeting Held on 21 - 22 July 2003 - Note by the Secretariat

World Trade Organization RESTRICTED TN/RL/M/11 8 September 2003 (03-4678) Negotiating Group on Rules SUMMARY REPORT OF THE MEETING HELD ON 21-22 JULY 2003 Note by the Secretariat The Negotiating Group on Rules ("the Group") held a formal meeting on 21-22 July 2003. A. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA The Group adopted the following agenda: A. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA B. REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS C. ANTI-DUMPING D. SUBSIDIES AND COUNTERVAILING MEASURES, INCLUDING FISHERIES SUBSIDIES E. OTHER BUSINESS Dates of meetings of the Group following Cancun. regional trade agreements ("RTAs") The Chairman invited the Group to focus on the RTA-related special and differential treatment ("S&D") proposals which had been preliminarily considered at Group's meeting of 11 June 2003. He recalled that the Chairman of the General Council had referred to the Group for consideration a number of proposals regarding S&D, of which three were RTA-related, and that a pro