Council for Trade in Goods - Working Party on State Trading Enterprises - Status of notifications submitted by WTO Members under article XVII:4(a) of the GATT 1994 and paragraph 1 of the Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XVII of the GATT 1994

STATUS of NOTIFICATIONS SUBMITTED BY WTO MEMBERS UNDER
ARTICLE XVII:4(a) OF the GATT 1994 AND PARAGRAPH 1
OF THE UNDERSTANDING ON THE INTERPRETATION
OF ARTICLE XVII OF the GATT 1994

1._        This listing does not address the qualitative aspects of these notifications, that is, the extent to which the content of the submissions satisfies the informational requirements of the notification obligations or affects the rights and obligations of Members.

2._        The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are as follows:

·_              "N&F Notif." in the column heading indicates a new and full notification.

·_              "Upd. Notif." in the column heading indicates an updating notification.

·_              "X" denotes that a notification has been received by the WTO. Subsequent addenda or corrections to notifications are not counted as additional notifications.

·_              "N" indicates that a nil notification has been received by the WTO.

·_              A blank indicates that no notification has been received by the WTO.

·_              "*" indicates that the country/customs territory was not yet a Member of the WTO.

·_              "A" indicates the year in which the WTO Agreement entered into force for that Member (see also document _WT/INF/43/Rev.23 for detailed information).

·_              "§" indicates that the country in question is currently a member of the European Union.

·_              The shaded boxes indicate that the corresponding notification was submitted by the European Union.

·_              The letters in parentheses next to a Member's name indicate the abbreviation used in the notification for that Member.

This status of notifications covers notification periods until, and including, 2022-2023.[1] With respect to the number of notifications, the European Union and its member States are counted as one. The member States that joined the European Union on 1 May 2004,[2] 1 January 2007,[3] and 1 July 2013[4] are also listed separately in order to provide information on the period preceding the enlargements of the European Union. For the notification periods until, and including, 2018-2019 (N/18), the European Union and the United Kingdom are counted as one. The European Union and the United Kingdom are counted separately starting from the 2020-2021 notification period (N/19).


[1] G/STR/N/20.

[2] Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.

[3] Bulgaria and Romania.

[4] Croatia.