Working Party on State Trading Enterprises - Recommendation on the frequency of notifications
- Working Party on State Trading Enterprises
- 2012/06/19
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World Trade
Organization G/STR/8
8 June 2012 (12-3092) Working Party on
State Trading Enterprises
recommendation on the frequency
of notifications
On 8 June 2012, the Working Party adopted the following recommendation for action by the Council for Trade in Goods.
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Article XVII:4 of GATT 1994, and paragraph 1 of the Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XVII of GATT 1994 (the Understanding) require Members to notify their state trading enterprises to the Council for Trade in Goods. GATT CONTRACTING PARTIES adopted on 9 November 1962 a decision establishing the periodicity of state trading notifications. This decision provides that new and full notifications of state trading enterprises are to be submitted every three years, with updating notifications to be submitted in the intervening years. Following the entry into force of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the WTO and the adoption of the Understanding, the Council