The texts reproduced in this section do not have the legal validity of the original documents entrusted and kept at the WTO Secretariat in Geneva. The WTO Agreements are often referred to as the Final Act of the Uruguay Round of 19861994 Trade Negotiations, although the Final Act is strictly speaking the first of the agreements. You can download these texts as WordPerfect or PDF files. Specific and differentiated provisions in legal texts: recognition of the legal capacity of the WTO to carry out its tasks (WTO VIII:1) Negotiations since then have resulted in other legal texts such as the Information Technology Agreement, services and accession protocols. Further negotiations were launched at the Doha Ministerial Conference in November 2001. 5. Prior to the adoption of the WTO Agreement, participants that are not Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade must have already concluded negotiations for accession to the General Agreement and become Parties to this Agreement. For participants which are not parties to the GATT at the time of the Final Act, the schedules are not definitive and are subsequently supplemented for the purposes of their accession to the GATT and their acceptance of the WTO Agreement. Data available from January 2003. All conditions, limitations and limitations of the following obligations are limited to existing non-conforming measures.
immediate contribution to expenditure (WTO VII:4) GATT 1947, continuity with: see GATT 1947 decisions, procedures and practices (WTO XVI:1); GATT 1947 (including amendments), continuity of the WTO with participants in the Uruguay Round It was agreed that this approach could be applied subject to the following conditions: GATT 1947 and: see GATT 1947 (including amendments), continuity in the WTO with specific deadlines for written submissions/compliance, Need for Online Documents (DSU 12.5) is a separate function www.wto.org the main website, so it works in its own browser window and has its own search engine. GATT 1947 waivers still in force (GATT 1994, 1(b)(iii)) Film: see cinematographic film, screen quotas (GATT IV); Cinematographic Works and Copyright Protection (TRIPS 11) have agreed through their representatives as follows: Most of the WTO agreements are the result of the 1986/94 Uruguay Round negotiations signed at the Marrakesh Ministerial Meeting in April 1994. There are about 60 agreements and decisions with a total length of 550 pages. unforeseen developments: see safeguard measures (SG/GATT XIX), Conditions (EC 2), such as increased quantities due to unforeseen developments (GATT XIX:1(a)) 3. The representatives agree that it is desirable to accept the WTO Agreement by all participants in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (hereinafter referred to as “the participants”) with a view to its entry into force on 1 January 1995 or as soon as possible thereafter. By the end of 1994 at the latest, Ministers will meet in accordance with the last paragraph of the Punta del Este Ministerial Declaration to decide on the international implementation of the results, including the date of their entry into force. between the original contracting parties to GATT 1947 (WTO XIII:2) Developing countries, in particular least-developed countries, will benefit from greater flexibility in the implementation of certain WTO rules. For agriculture: tariffs, combinations of duties and quotas, export subsidies and certain types of domestic support. Each Member shall include in its Schedule existing monopoly rights for financial services and shall endeavour to eliminate or reduce their scope.
Notwithstanding point (b) of the first subparagraph of the Annex on Financial Services (LINK), this paragraph shall apply to the activities referred to in point (b)(iii) of the first subparagraph of the Annex. (LINK) FAO Principles on Surplus Disposal and Advisory Obligations, Applicability (GA 10.4(b)) CONTACT: World Trade Organization, rue de Lausanne 154, CH-1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland Strengthening the Global Economy (WTO Preamble), Marrakesh Declaration (MD 1) 1.