Dispute Settlement Body - Special Session - Minutes of Meeting - Held in the Centre William Rappard on 1 March 2004

TN/DS/M/16World Trade Organization RESTRICTED TN/DS/M/16 7 June 2004 (04-2423) Special Session of the Dispute Settlement Body 1 March 2004 Minutes of Meeting Held in the Centre William Rappard on 1 March 2004 Outgoing Chairman: Mr. Péter Balás (Hungary) Incoming Chairman: Mr. David Spencer (Australia) Subjects discussed: Page 1. Election of the Chairperson 1 2. Organization of the work 2 Prior to the adoption of the agenda, the outgoing Chairman welcomed participants to the seventeenth formal meeting of the Special Session and said that the agenda for the meeting contained two items, namely: (i) Election of Chairperson; and (ii) Organization of Work. Election of the Chairperson The outgoing Chairman recalled that at its 11 February 2004 meeting, the General Council had taken note of the consensus on a slate of names for Chairpersons to a number of WTO bodies, including the Special Session of the Dispute Settlement Body. On the basis of