Dispute Settlement Body - Special Session - Minutes of Meeting - Held in the Centre William Rappard on 22 October 2004

World Trade Organization RESTRICTED TN/DS/M/20 26 May 2005 (05-2145) Special Session of the Dispute Settlement Body 22 October 2004 minutes of meeting Held in the Centre William Rappard on 22 October 2004 Chairman: Mr. David Spencer (Australia) Prior to the adoption of the agenda, the Chairman welcomed participants to the twenty-third meeting of the Special Session and recalled that at the last meeting of the Special Session at the end of May 2004, it had been agreed that he would report to the TNC the consensus among participants that work should continue towards clarification and improvement of the DSU, and that, on that basis, the Chairman of the TNC had forwarded to the General Council the TNC's recommendation that work in the Special Session should continue on the basis set out in that report and that this recommendation was adopted by the General Council on 1 August, as part of the July package. Turning to the agenda for this meeting, the Cha