UPDATING OF THE LISTING OF NOTIFICATION
OBLIGATIONS AND THE
COMPLIANCE THEREWITH AS SET OUT IN ANNEX III OF THE
REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP ON NOTIFICATION
OBLIGATIONS AND PROCEDURES
Revision
At its meeting on 15 October 1996,
the Council for Trade in Goods (CTG) considered the report of the Working Group
on Notification Obligations and Procedures (_G/L/112) and decided, inter alia, that the
listing of notification obligations and the compliance therewith, contained in
its Annex III, should be maintained on an ongoing basis and circulated to
all Members.
Accordingly, Annex III of document _G/L/112 has been repeatedly updated.[1] The present document
updates the information, including the explanatory notes, and the listing of
notifications to include all notifications of a regular or periodic nature up
to 31 December 2023.
It should be noted that this listing does not
address the qualitative aspects of these notifications, that is, the extent to
which the content of the submissions satisfies the informational requirements
of the various obligations or affects the rights and obligations of Members.
The present revision also incorporates the
technical changes to the document which were circulated to Members for comment
on 27 April 2004. As noted by the Chairperson[2],
the suggested changes were purely of a technical nature, intended to take
account of developments that had occurred since the notifications document was
first circulated. This understanding was formalized at the meeting of the
CTG on 5 July 2004.[3]
At its meeting of 23 and 26 March 2018,
the CTG agreed to hold consultations on how to modify this report to take
account of the entry into force of the Trade Facilitation Agreement.[4]
The present revision incorporates changes resulting from the consultations that
took place on 4 March 2019 concerning this agreement.[5]
Members will also recall that the online
Notifications Portal (https://notifications.wto.org/en) seeks to consolidate,
under a single system, all general information concerning notifications and the
information for the agreements on trade in goods summarized and presented
following the template used for this document series, series _G/L/223/*.
[1] Previous updates have been circulated in _G/L/112/Add.1;
_G/L/112/Add.2;
and _G/L/223
and its revisions.
[2] In the cover note to the amended document, dated 27 April 2004,
and in his statement to Members in the CTG meeting of 27 April 2004
under Other Business (_G/C/M/73).
[3] Document _G/C/M/74, Section III.
[4] Document _G/C/M/131,
paragraphs 2.20 and 2.21.
[5] See document _G/C/M/134,
paragraph 2.1.