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Representatives of the contracting parties shall meet from time to time for the purpose of giving effect to those provisions of this Agreement which involve joint action and, generally, with a view to facilitating the operation and furthering the objectives of this Agreement. Wherever reference is made in this Agreement to the contracting parties acting jointly they are designated as the CONTRACTING PARTIES.
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- 1.
GATT/CP.2/SR.21, p. 4
- 2.
G/35, Adopted on 10 November 1952, 1S/85, 86, paras. 2–3.
- 3.
L/769, Adopted on 30 November 1957, 65/36, 38, paras. 8–10.
- 4.
See paragraph 3 in each of the following:
Geneva (1967)—Protocol (Results of Kennedy Round); 15S/6; Geneva (1979) Protocol 26S/4, and Protocol Supplementary to the Geneva (1979) Protocol, 26S/6 (Results of Tokyo Round). See also paragraph 4 of the Marrakesh Protocol.
- 5.
Basic instruments, Vol. II (1952), p. 30.
- 6.
Ibid., 2nd Supp. (1954), pp. 22, 61.
- 7.
Ibid., 3rd Supp. (1955) p. 30
- 8.
John H. Jackson, World Trade and the Law of GATT 217–248 (1969).
- 9.
Ibid., p. 220.
- 10.
GATT, 13th Suppl; BISD 109 (1965).
- 11.
Supra note 8, p. 221.
- 12.
26S/202.
- 13.
L/6367, 35S/336, see also report of the Committee on Tariff concessions, 353/29–30.
- 14.
Ibid.,
- 15.
Paragraph 4 of the Procedure for Negotiations Under Article XXVIII, adopted on 10 November 1980, BISD 27S/26-28 shall apply in these case.
- 16.
C/113 and Corr. 1, 27S/26-29. The Annexes are not printed in the BISD and can be found in C/113.
- 17.
Participation of less-developed countries in Trade negotiations, a Note by the Executive Secretary, March 1961, Report of the Committee III, L/1435, 10S/167, Annex. A, 10S/172, paras. 3–4; Tokyo Round Declaration (1973), 20S/19, 21, paras. 5–6.
- 18.
The Decision on ‘Differential and More Favourable Treatment, Reciprocity and Fuller participation of Developing Countries’, negotiated in the Tokyo Round (28 November 1979), L/4903, 265/203, 204, paras. 5, 6.
- 19.
L/3335/21, paras. (iv–v)
- 20.
Article X: 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the WTO Agreement.
- 21.
Ibid., Art X: 7.
- 22.
As on January 2006, WTO had 149 members, 123 original and the other 26 acceded to the Agreement. See Article XI of the WTO Agreement.
- 23.
WT/ACC/1, para.
- 24.
Article XIII, I of WTO Agreement.
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Koul, A.K. (2018). Joint Action by the Contracting Parties (Article XXV). In: Guide to the WTO and GATT. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2089-7_22
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