Appellate Body - Working Procedures for Appellate Review

World Trade Organization WT/AB/WP/5 4 January 2005 (05-0009) Appellate Body WORKING PROCEDURES FOR APPELLATE REVIEW This document replaces the Working Procedures for Appellate Review circulated 1 May 2003. It is a consolidated, revised version, and reflects amendments to Rules 1, 18(5), 20, 21, 23, 27 and Annex I, as well as the addition of a new Rule 23bis  and a new Annex III, as discussed in WT/AB/WP/W/8 and WT/AB/WP/W/9. The Working Procedures for Appellate Review  consolidated in this document will be applied to appeals initiated after 1 January 2005. Definitions 1. In these Working Procedures for Appellate Review, "appellant" means any party to the dispute that has filed a Notice of Appeal pursuant to Rule 20; "appellate report" means an Appellate Body report as described in Article 17 of the DSU; "appellee" means any party to the dispute that has filed a submission pursuan