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
pp. 3 – 12 offset (pdf file attached)
[1] For ease of
reference, the resulting modifications will also be issued as document _GATS/SC/46/Suppl.4.