Reference:    WLI/100                                                                                 1 August 2024

MARRAKESH AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING
THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
DONE AT MARRAKESH ON 15 APRIL 1994

GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TRADE IN SERVICES

CERTIFICATION OF IMPROVEMENTS
TO SCHEDULES OF SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS

JAPAN

TRANSMISSION OF CERTIFIED TRUE COPY

        WHEREAS the Council for Trade in Services, on 18 April 2000, adopted Procedures for the Certification of Rectifications or Improvements to Schedules of Specific Commitments (document _S/L/84);

        WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the above-mentioned Procedures, a draft containing improvements to Japan's Schedule of Specific Commitments was communicated to Members of the World Trade Organization in document _S/C/W/401 on 20 December 2022, and objections to the proposed improvements were received from South Africa on 3 February 2023 (document _S/L/474) and India on the same date (document _S/L/450), but subsequently a corrigendum to the aforementioned draft was circulated by Japan on 25 January 2024 (document _S/C/W/401/Corr.1), in light of which South Africa, on 16 February 2024 (document _S/L/482) and India, on 26 February 2024 (document _S/L/492), withdrew their respective objections;

WHEREAS on 26 February 2024, the WTO Secretariat issued a communication to all Members to the effect that the certification procedure concerning the above‑mentioned improvements has been concluded (document _S/L/519);

        IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the annexed improvements to Japan's Schedule of Specific Commitments are established in conformity with the above mentioned Procedures.

        The annexed improvements to Japan's Schedule of Specific Commitments become effective in accordance with the notification to be given to that effect by the Government of Japan to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization upon completion of Japan's internal procedures.

        I hereby furnish a certified true copy of the above-mentioned improvements to each Member of the World Trade Organization.[1] This certification shall be registered in accordance with the provisions of Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

        Done at Geneva this twenty-ninth day of July, two thousand and twenty-four.

                                                                               Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

                                                                                  Director-General

24-5438                                                                                                          WT/Let/1710

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