Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Japan's Experience Concerning Cross-Border Designation Systems - Submission by Japan

World Trade Organization G/TBT/W/277 10 July 2007 (07-2937) Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: English Japan ’ s Experience Concerning Cross-border Designation Systems Submission by JAPAN The following communication, dated 5 July 2007, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Japan. _______________ Introduction This paper is supplementary information to G/TBT/ W/ 19 4, G /TBT/W/263 and G/TBT/W/276 submitted by Japan , concerning “The Case Study to clarify the effectiveness of MRA s” . Introduction of Cross-border Designation Systems is described in paragraph 39 and is related to 46(c) of the “Fourth Triennial Review of the Operation and Implementation of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade under Article 15.4 , ” as below : " In relation to government-to-government MRAs, …… .. The Committee notes that the mutual introduction of cross-border designation systems in equivalent fields by g