SPECIFIC TRADE CONCERNS
Note by the Secretariat[1]
Revision
At the 15-16 March 2000 meeting
of the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the SPS
Committee), the Secretariat was requested to prepare a paper summarizing the
specific trade concerns (STCs) that had been brought to the Committee's
attention since 1995.[2]
The Secretariat has revised this document annually to include new
information provided by Members (G/SPS/GEN/204/Rev.1 to G/SPS/GEN/204/Rev.17). The
STCs in the 18th revision of G/SPS/GEN/204 maintain the previously
assigned numbers according to the chronological order of the Committee meetings
in which they were first raised. These numbers serve as unique identifiers and
are intended to facilitate the tracking of issues raised over time.[3]
In preparing this document, the Secretariat has largely relied on the SPS
Information Management System (SPS IMS).[4]