Committee on Government Procurement - Indicative Time-Frame for Accession Negotiations and Reporting on the Progress of Work - Note by the Secretariat - Revision
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26 June 2000 (00-2587) Committee on Government Procurement
INDICATIVE TIME-FRAME FOR ACCESSION NEGOTIATIONS
AND REPORTING ON THE PROGRESS OF WORK
Note by the Secretariat
Revision
In the context of its discussion regarding the improvement of the procedures for accession under Article XXIV:2, the Committee agreed at its October 1999 meeting that the Secretariat would prepare a note on the establishment of an indicative time-frame for accession negotiations together with a procedure for regular reporting to each Committee meeting on progress in bilateral consultations (GPA/M/12, paragraph 21). A note was prepared in response to this request and discussed at the March 2000 Committee meeting (GPA/W/109). This revised version takes into account the comments made by Parties at that meeting.
Certain basic procedures for accession negotiations have already been adopted by the Committee in its De