Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures - Special and Differential Treatment - Report by the Chairman to the General Council

World Trade Organization G/SPS/46 29 October 2007 (07-4681) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures SPECIAL AND DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT Report by the Chairman to the General Council This report is further to the information provided in April 2007 regarding the SPS Committee's consideration of the issue of special and differential treatment (G/SPS/44). This issue has continued to be considered by the SPS Committee at each of its regular meetings, as well as at informal meetings just prior to the three regular meetings held in 2007. At an informal meeting in June, the representative of Egypt informally tabled two proposals. The first of these contained a revision of earlier proposals on SPS Article 10.1, suggesting the inclusion of a new, first paragraph in the article, and further revisions to the existing first paragraph. This proposal can be found in document Job(07)99. The other proposal submitted by Egypt suggested revisions to the proc