NOTE FROM THE SECRETARIAT

In order to assist Members, the following are deadlines for submission of various documentation following up on the April 2022 regular meetings, and in conjunction with the October 2022 regular meetings of the Committees on Anti-Dumping Practices, Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and Safeguards, which will be held in the week of 24 October 2022.

Members are reminded to always submit written questions and answers directly to the Member concerned at the same time that they submit them to the Secretariat for circulation.

1.        AD/CVD/SG LEGISLATION NOTIFICATIONS

The Secretariat will circulate to Members by 16 September 2022 the annotated draft agenda in which a list of the new notifications of legislation, that will be on the agenda for review at the regular meetings in October 2022, will be reflected. Pursuant to procedures adopted by the Committees^[1],[2], notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 12 September 2022 will be reviewed at the relevant Committee's October 2022 regular meeting.

1.1  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers following up on the April 2022 regular meetings:

16 May 2022                     Written follow-up to questions posed orally at the April 2022 regular meetings regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at those meetings.

6 June 2022                      Written answers to all written questions (those posed in writing prior to the regular meetings by the deadline of 4 April 2022 and those posed orally at the meetings and followed-up in writing after the regular meetings by the above deadline of 16 May 2022) regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings in April 2022.

1.2  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers in conjunction with the October 2022 regular meetings:

12 September 2022         Written questions regarding previously-reviewed notifications of legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in October 2022.

3 October 2022                Written questions regarding new notifications of legislation to be reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings in October 2022. Such questions would be answered orally at the October 2022 regular meetings and subsequently followed by written answers to be submitted by the deadline indicated by the Chairs at those meetings and reflected in the next "Note from the Secretariat" to be issued after the meetings.

10 October 2022              Written answers to written questions submitted by 12 September 2022 regarding previously-reviewed notifications of legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in October 2022.

2.        Subsidy Notifications

2.1  New and Full Subsidy Notifications

2021 new and full notifications were due on 30 June 2021. Pursuant to the procedures adopted by the Committee at its April 2005 regular meeting and circulated in document G/SCM/117^[3], only notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 27 June 2022 may be reviewed at the special meeting that will be held in October 2022. The Secretariat will circulate to Members, shortly after, a list of 2021 new and full subsidy notifications, and any other new and full notifications not previously reviewed, that will be on the agenda for review at that meeting.

16 May 2021                     Written follow-up questions regarding the subsidy notifications reviewed at the Committee's special meeting in April 2022 that had not been reviewed at previous meetings.

6 June 2022                      Written answers to all follow-up and pending written questions posed in connection with the subsidy notifications reviewed at the Committee's special meeting in April 2022 that had not been reviewed at previous meetings.

26 July 2022                     Written questions regarding 2021 new and full subsidy notifications, and other new and full notifications not previously-reviewed, to be reviewed at the Committee's special meeting in October 2022.

27 September 2022         Written answers to written questions regarding 2021 new and full subsidy notifications, and other new and full notifications not previously‑reviewed, to be reviewed at the Committee's special meeting in October 2022.

2.2  Transparency Notifications Relating to Article 27.4 Export Subsidy Phase-Out Period

The Members with Article 27.4 extensions are required, pursuant to paragraph 2(c) of the procedures in WT/L/691, to provide transparency notifications in respect of 2015, the last of the two final years for phasing out the export subsidies. These notifications were due on 30 June 2016.