WTO ACCESSIONS

2016 ANNUAL REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR‑GENERAL

Corrigendum^[1]

1.            On page 5, paragraph 12, the following sentence should read as underlined below:

-      H.E. Mr. Rajmund Kiss (Hungary) took over the Chairmanship of the Working Party on the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in December 2015, following the retirement of H.E. Mr. István Major (Hungary).

2.            On page 15, paragraph 80, the following sentence should read as underlined below:

-      However, as in any reform process, an accession process takes time; on average, it has taken 10 years and 2 months, to conclude an accession process for the 36 Article XII Members, as shown in Table 1.

3.            On page 20, paragraph 89, the following sentence should read as underlined below:

-      These accessions have been running for 16.5 years, on average, since the applications for WTO membership were received; this is far longer than the average of 10 years and 2 months for the 36 concluded accessions to date.

4.            On page 24, footnote 27 should read as underlined below:

                        -   See Annex 5 to this Report.

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