Dispute Settlement Body - Special Session - Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Ronald Sabor甐 Soto, to the Trade Negotiations Committee for the Purpose of the TNC Stocktaking Exercise

World Trade Organization TN/DS/24 22 March 2010 (10-1511) Dispute Settlement Body Special Session Special session of the Dispute settlement body Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Ronald Saborío Soto, to the Trade Negotiations Committee for the purpose of the TNC stocktaking exercise In my last written report in December 2008, I had informed the TNC that Members had endorsed as basis for our future work the consolidated draft legal text contained in the document that I had issued under my own responsibility in July 2008. I had also reported, at that time, that delegations were also in support of continuing our substantive consultations in a format comparable to our previous work, involving a combination of consultations in various formats and open-ended informal meetings for transparency. Since then, we have almost completed a first round of discussion of all issues contained in my text of July 2008. Between January 2009 and February 2010, we met six