World Trade
Organization TN/CTD/W/24
6 December 2002 (02-6739) Committee on Trade and Development
Special Session Original: English
COMMENTS ON THE CANADIAN PROPOSAL
Statement by Egypt at the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
Meeting of 7-8 November 2002
We would like to thank Canada for their proposal (G/SPS/W/127), which, we believe, is a very constructive step towards having a more operational and effective Article 10.1.
As you know, in the March 2002 meeting Egypt proposed the addition of a box to the notification format to deal with the implementation of Article 10.1 of the SPS Agreement (i.e. to identify the S&D component in a measure adopted or applied by an importing developed country Member). We noted that Article 10.1 is mandatory in nature. We further noted that there is a lack of transparency on its implementation by importing Members.
The intention of the proposed box is two-fold:
To help developing countries pinpoint