NOTE FROM THE SECRETARIAT

In order to assist Members, the following are deadlines for submission of various documentation following up on the April 2024 regular meetings, and in conjunction with the October 2024 regular meetings of the Committees on Anti-Dumping Practices, Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and Safeguards, which will be held in the week of 28 October 2024.

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 20 September 2024 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 2024, will be reflected. Pursuant to procedures adopted by the Committees[1]^,[2], notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 16 September 2024 will be reviewed at the relevant Committee's October 2024 regular meeting.

1.1  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers following up on the April 2024 regular meetings:

17 May 2024                     Written follow-up to questions posed orally at the April 2024 regular meetings regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at those meetings.

7 June 2024                      Written answers to all written questions (those posed in writing prior to the regular meetings by the deadline of 2 April 2024 and those posed orally at the meetings and followed-up in writing after the regular meetings by the above deadline of 17 May 2024) regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings in April 2024.

1.2  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers in conjunction with the October 2024 regular meetings:

16 September 2024         Written questions regarding previously-reviewed notifications of legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in October 2024.

7 October 2024                Written questions regarding new notifications of legislation to be reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings in October 2024. Such questions would be answered orally at the October 2024 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.

14 October 2024              Written answers to written questions submitted by 16 September 2024 regarding previously-reviewed notifications of legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in October 2024.

2.  _      Subsidy Notifications

2.1  New and Full Subsidy Notifications

2023 new and full notifications were due on 30 June 2023. 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 1 July 2024 may be reviewed at the special meeting that will be held in October 2024. The Secretariat will circulate to Members, shortly after, a list of 2023 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.

17 May 2024                     Written follow-up questions regarding the subsidy notifications reviewed at the Committee's special meeting in April 2024.

7 June 2024                      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 2024.

29 July 2024                     Written questions regarding 2023 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 2024.

30 September 2024         Written answers to written questions regarding 2023 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 2024.

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.

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