WTA /WTO and GATT Uruguay 1994

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World Trade Agreement 1994 (establishing the WTO and including GATT Uruguay 1994)

III. Ministerial Decisions and Declarations

5. Technical Barriers to Trade:

5. (b) Decision on Review of the ISO/IEC Information Centre Publication

5. (b) Decision on Review of the ISO/IEC Information Centre Publication

Ministers decide that in conformity with paragraph 1 of Article 13, the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade shall, without prejudice to provisions on consultation and dispute settlement, at least once a year review the publication provided by the ISO/IEC Information Centre on information received according to the Code of good practice in Annex 3 of the Agreement, for the purpose of affording Members opportunity of discussing any matters relating to the operation of that Code.

In order to facilitate this discussion, the WTO Secretariat is requested to provide a list by Member of all standardizing bodies that have accepted the Code of good practice, as well as a list of those standardizing bodies that have accepted or withdrawn from the Code since the previous review.

The WTO Secretariat is also requested to distribute promptly to the Members copies of the notifications it receives from the ISO/IEC Information Centre.