Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures - Proposals and Progress on Special And Differential Treatment - Note by the Secretariat
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World Trade
Organization G/SPS/GEN/543
28 February 2005 (05-0834) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
Proposals and Progress on special and differential treatment
Note by the Secretariat
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In May 2003, the General Council requested the SPS Committee to consider five proposals on special and differential treatment as part of its ongoing work (JOB(03)/100). These proposals had previously been considered by the General Council in formal and informal consultations. In June 2003, the SPS Committee adopted a schedule of work for the consideration of these proposals, which it pursued until its conclusion in March 2004 (G/SPS/26). Unfortunately, this work programme did not result in any decisions by the SPS Committee on the five S&D proposals (G/SPS/27, G/SPS/30).
On 1 August 2004, the General Council decided to refer the agreement-specific proposals for special and differential treatment to the respective WTO bodies, with the stipu