RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/BFA/SPEC/100
3 November 2003
(03-5845)
Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration
2004-2005
BUDGET ESTIMATES
Proposals by the Director-GeneralWT/BFA/SPEC/100
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CONTENTS
Page
FOREWORD ....................................................................................................................... ..............5
PART I
INTRODUCT ION................................................................................................................... ...........8
INCOME ESTIMATES for 2004-2005..........................................................................................14WORKLOAD INDI CATORS ........................................................................................................15
ANNEX A-1 ...........................................................................................................................18
ANNEX A-2 ...........................................................................................................................19
ANNEX A-3 ...........................................................................................................................20
ANNEX B-1 ...........................................................................................................................21
ANNEX B-2 ...........................................................................................................................22
ANNEX B-3 ...........................................................................................................................23
ANNEX C ........................................................................................................................ ....24
ANNEX D ........................................................................................................................ ....25
ANNEX E........................................................................................................................ .....26
ANNEX F........................................................................................................................ .....27
2004-2005 DETAILED B UDGET ESTI MATES ..........................................................................31
PART II
Senior Management.............................................................................................................. ...........63
Office of the Di rector-General................................................................................................. .......64
Accessions Division ............................................................................................................ ..............65
Administration And General Services Division.............................................................................68Condominium Costs .............................................................................................................. ...........72
Agriculture and Commodities Division..........................................................................................7 4
Council and TNC Division ....................................................................................................... .......79
Development .................................................................................................................... .................82WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Economic Research And Statistics ............................................................................................... ..86
External Relations Division.................................................................................................... .........92
Informatics Division........................................................................................................... ..............96
Information and Media Relations Division ...................................................................................99
Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation Division.......................................................103
Intellectual Prop erty Division................................................................................................. ......106
Language Services and Documentation Division ........................................................................111
Legal Affair s Division......................................................................................................... ...........114
Market Access Division ......................................................................................................... ........117
Rules Division................................................................................................................. ................125
Technical Cooperation Audit Division.........................................................................................12 9
Textiles Di vision .............................................................................................................. ...............132
Textiles Monito ring Body....................................................................................................... .......135
Trade and Environment Division ................................................................................................. 138
Trade and Finance Division ..................................................................................................... .....142
Trade in Services Division..................................................................................................... ........144
Trade Policies Review Division................................................................................................. ....148
Appellate Body ................................................................................................................. ..............151WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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FOREWORD
The challenges facing the WTO as it moves into its 10th year of existence in 2004 are no less
formidable than those which the Organization has faced in its first nine years. While much has been
accomplished since 1995, we are facing new and important challenges. Members set ambitious goalsfor themselves when they approved the Doha Development Agenda two years ago.  Equally
important, Members expect, and rightly so, that the WTO will continue to become more efficient and
more transparent both in its on-going work and its use of resources.
In the preparation of the budget proposals this year, my colleagues and I find ourselves in a
somewhat different situation as compared with previous years.  Of particular note is that we are
presenting budget proposals for the biennium 2004-2005, consisting of two distinct annual financialperiods.  Members have stressed two important elements:  predictability and flexibility. The proposals
before you, consisting of two annual budgets, can be said to be a pilot exercise for the Secretariat. We
look forward to your reactions to the budget pr oposal document and would welcome any suggestions
which you might wish to make. I am hopeful that Members will find that the fundamental elements of
predictability and flexibility have been respected in the first WTO biennial presentation.
A more difficult challenge for the Secretariat has been to assess not so much the direction
which negotiations will take in the coming two years, but rather the pace and intensity of negotiations,
which clearly have an important impact on the budget. One of our primary concerns must be to have
adequate resources to face the challenges ahead and to be able to respond in the best possible mannerto the pace of negotiations as they unfold.  I have also stressed the importance of monitoring on-going
workloads and future developments with a view to reallocation of staff resources if and when
warranted. Any additional staff resources are being proposed bearing this point in mind.
 It is also necessary to have adequate resources to deal effectively and efficiently with the
Dispute Settlement Process, both at the Panel and Appeal levels.  Precision in this area is complicated
by the difficulty of knowing in advance how many panel cases and appeals may be presented.
I am also concerned that two very important on-going activities be assured of a predictable
and reasonable level of resources, which is currently not the case.  My proposals for 2004-2005 reflectthis concern with regard to funding the Appellate Body Operating Fund and the allocation for
Ministerial Conferences.
The proposals which you will examine also reflect the importance I attach to finding ways of
being more cost-effective as an organization.  This is not only good management but also takes
account of the difficult financial situations facing a growing number of WTO Members.  Certain
sectors, after close scrutiny, will be maintained at the current levels, while in others decreases arebeing put forward.
Members have a right to be proud, as indeed I am, of the progress that the WTO has made in
its first nine years of existence.  I am thinking particularly of the establishment and functioning of a
major international force to expand trade in the world, with the aim of bringing benefits to a greaterproportion of the world's population. I am also thinki ng of the expansion of the membership of the
WTO, encompassing both large and small economies. We can take some satisfaction too from the
strengthening of the Dispute Settlement Process, as  well as in our mutual efforts, including the
establishment of the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund, to equip the smaller and less
developed Members to participate more fully and effectively in world trade.  In addition, the recentdecision which will make it easier for poorer countries to import less costly drugs to deal with
diseases which ravage their people is a major achievement for the WTO.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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I would like to express my recognition, which is echoed frequently in my conversations with
delegates and national authorities, of the efforts of the staff of the WTO whose professionalism,
integrity and sense of responsibility has been a major factor in the progress made in the first nine
years of the Organization's existence.
We should not lose sight of these positive developments.  But there is no doubt that we have
much still to do, many improvements to make, greater efficiencies to achieve, and many challenges to
overcome.  The budgets for 2004-2005 should provide a foundation for us to move ahead in these
directions with determination and confidence.
Supachai Panitchpakdi
Director-GeneralWT/BFA/SPEC/100
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PART IWT/BFA/SPEC/100
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INTRODUCTION
1. The Director-General hereby submits his budget estimates for the expenses and income of the
World Trade Organization (WTO) for the years 2004-2005.
Proposed Budget for 2004
2. In comparison with the approved budget for 2003 (CHF 154.95 million), the consolidated
budget estimates for the WTO Secretariat and the Appellate Body and its Secretariat amount to
CHF 165.65 million.  This figure represents an overall increase of 6.89%, equivalent to
CHF 10.69 million.
3. Detailed budget estimates for the WTO Secretariat and the Appellate Body and its Secretariat
are presented separately further in this present document. For clarity of presentation, the Introduction
will deal with the overall consolidation of the two budgets, which individually stand atCHF 160.83 million for the WTO Secretariat and CHF 4.82 million for the Appellate Body and its
Secretariat.
4. The WTO budget proposals are established using the zero-based budgeting technique, i.e. all
organizational functions and needs are reviewed comprehensively and all anticipated expenditures for
the forthcoming exercise are evaluated on their own merits. The percentage difference from the
current year is therefore  simply a mathematical derivative of the technique used and is presented for
information only.
5. The following table demonstrates the various categories of changes with respect to the 2003
budget:
Analysis of Proposed Differences in 2004
CHF millions %
Statutory and other unavoidable
increases:
   Statutory increases 3.86 2.49%
Replenishment of the Appellate
Body Operating Fund 1.80 1.16%
Sub-total statutory/unavoidable
increases 5.66 3.65%
Other WTO increases/(decreases)
   Additional staff resources 4.14 2.67%
   Ministerial Conference 0.30 0.19%
   Other decreases (net) (0.16) (0.10%)
Sub-total other WTO
increases/(decreases) 4.28 2.76%
WTO increase 9.94 6.41%
International Trade Centre 0.75 0.48%
Overall increase 10.69 6.89%WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Statutory Increases:  CHF 3.86 million - 2.49 per cent
6. The evolution of staff costs with regard to salary, contribution to the pension fund, and other
common staff costs, representing 84% (CHF 3.30 million) of the statutory increases is made up
primarily of (i) the financial implications of the methodology for future salary adjustments which was
approved by the General Council on 15 May 2003 (WT/GC/M/80), (ii) the Performance Award
System as per Staff Regulation 6.4, which specifies that the WTO shall institute and maintainprogrammes to reward staff members according to their performance and achievements and that
performance-related awards shall constitute on aggregate no more than 2 per cent of the total net
salary budget, (iii) the complementary/full fundin g of the six new posts for 2003 which were funded
for six months, and (iv) anticipated increases in the medical insurance scheme for WTO staff. In the
context of the calculations for permanent staff costs, the overall profile of WTO staff was re-
evaluated
1 and resulted in a decrease of CHF 1.89 million.  In addition, a vacancy factor of
CHF 900,000 was introduced which represented a corresponding reduction in the proposed allocation.
7. Other statutory elements were (i) the deletion of one-time costs associated with the
recruitment of staff to fill the six new positions approved for 2003, and (ii) the increased costs for
service-related insurance, mandated under WTO Staff Regulation 8.2, which have risen sharply
recently.  Taking these two elements into account re presents 16% (CHF 621,800) of the total statutory
increase.
Replenishment of the Appellate Body Oper ating Fund:  CHF 1.80 million – 1.16 per cent
8. It is recalled that the budget proposals for 2003 contained a provision for the replenishment of
the Appellate Body Operating Fund (ABOF), but the provision was ultimately not included in the
approved budget in the hope that financing for the current year could be assured through a positive
balance in the Surplus Account for 2002.  In view of th e fact that the Surplus Account did not, in fact,
produce a positive balance, the ABOF is currently running in deficit.2  Expenditure for the years 1997
through 2002 has varied between CHF 1.10 million (in the first year) to CHF 2.01 million in 2001. It
is proposed that an amount of CHF 1.80 million be included in the budget proposals for 2004.
Additional Staff Resources:  CHF 4.14 million – 2.67per cent
9. Proposals for additional staff resources include 14 additional posts and funds for temporary
assistance. The estimates associated with the additional posts are based on the usual salary, pension
and common staff costs for six months as well as recruitment-related expenses (travel and removal,
installation grants, advertisements, interviews, etc. ) and represent 52.4% (CHF 2.17 million) of the
total amount proposed for additional staff resources.  Complete information and justifications will be
provided separately.
10. The remainder of the proposal for additional staff resources, corresponding to 47.6%
(CHF 1.97 million) relate to areas of temporary assistance, which continue to be chronically under-
funded, and where over-expenditures occur year after year. 92.6% of the proposed additional
temporary assistance resources cover costs associated with (i) the translation and preparation of
documents and (ii) interpretation at meetings, both of which are Member-driven.
                                                     
1 Including the implications of staff turnover, where newer staff members are often recruited at lower
grades, or lower positions in grades, than those they are replacing, changing entitlements for dependent childrenand spouses, home leave, etc.
2 The Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration has examined this situation this year as well
as possible courses of action (WT/BFA/W/106).WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Ministerial Conference:  CHF 0.30 million – 0.19 per cent
11. The cost for the Secretariat of Ministerial Conferences, normally held every second year, is
assured through annual allocations in the WTO budget.  These annual allocations are intended to
provide one-half of the resources necessary for each Ministerial Conference.  The present level of
funding available for each Conference (CHF 800,0003) ultimately covers only some 55% - 60% of the
real costs for the WTO.  The additional resources requested (CHF 300,000 annually) will bring thefunding for each Conference to a more realistic level and will be in line with current expenditure
patterns for recent Conferences.
Other decreases (net):  (CHF 0.16 million) – (0.10 per cent)
12. The total of other increases and decreases in the summary table (Annex A-1) stands at an
overall increase of CHF 0.89 million.  However, after taking account of the proposals to increase
funding for the (i) Ministerial Conference by CHF 0.30 million (see paragraph 11), and (ii) the
International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO by CHF 0.75 million, the net result is a decrease ofCHF 0.16 million.  The explanations of the various increases and decreases are included in the
detailed budget estimates further in this documen t, but the major changes include increases for
building facilities and staff overheads, with decreases for permanent equipment, and Trade Policy
Training Courses.
Consolidation of temporary assistance in 2004:  cost neutral
13. It will be recalled that the Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration recommended
to the General Council in February 2003 (WT/BFA/65) the transfer of 24 posts subject to fixed term
contracts from the temporary assistance line to the regular staff costs line of the WTO budget.  The
conditions applying to such a transfer were that the individual had been working in the same job for a
minimum of four years.  The transfer s consisted entirely of support staff.
14. In the course of 2004, a maximum of 10 indivi duals will have completed four years under
temporary assistance, and are working in the Informatics Division, Language Services and
Documentations Division, Economic Research a nd Statistics Division, Administration and General
Services Division, External Affairs Division, and the Appellate Body and its Secretariat.  The on-
going need for these services have been well established in view of the fact that each individual will
have been serving for four years.  It is proposed that the transfer of these posts subject to fixed term
contracts from the temporary assistance line to the regular staff costs line of the WTO budget be
accorded in 2003 when the individuals have completed the four-year condition.  It is recalled that the
consolidation would be cost neutral, as shown on the summary tables (consolidation column) of
Annexes A-1, 2 and 3.
WTO increase
15. The overall effect of the elements outlined in paragraphs 6 through 14 above for 2004
represent an increase of 6.41% (CHF 9.94 million) over the 2003 approved budget.
International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO:  CHF 0.75 million – 0.48 per cent
16.  In May of this year, the Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration took note of the
Preliminary Budget Outline for 2004 (ITC/BUD/45) which provided an overall estimate of
CHF 32.40 million, to be financed equally by the United Nations and the WTO, after taking accountof miscellaneous income.  The estimate in the current budget submission is CHF 32.49 million and,
after taking account miscellaneous income of CHF 0.24 million, implies a contribution for 2004 from
                                                     
3 Based on the 1998 Conference held in Geneva and which lasted only three days.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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the WTO amounting to CHF 16.13 million.  The full proposal with regard to the ITC is contained in
document ITC/BUD/47.
Overall increase for 2004
17. The combined effect of increases for the WTO itself (paragraph 15) and the International
Trade Centre (paragraph 16) amount to CHF 10.69 million, equivalent to an increase of 6.89%.
Proposed Budget for 2005
18. The estimates for 2005 are based on the Secretariat’s best assessment of developments
for 2005, particularly with regard to statutory increases and inflationary factors. It is recalled that,
should it prove necessary, the guidelines for implementation of Biennial Budgeting provide for a
revision to the budget for the second year of the biennium.4
19. In comparison with the proposed budget for 2004 (CHF 165.65 million), the consolidated
budget estimates for the WTO Secretariat and the Appellate Body and its Secretariat for 2005 amount
to CHF 173.69 million.  This figure represents an overall increase of 4.85%, equivalent to CHF 8.05million. The information below regarding 2005 deals with the consolidation of the two budgets, which
individually stand at CHF 168.82 million for the WTO Secretariat and CHF 4.87 million for the
Appellate Body and its Secretariat.
20. The following table demonstrates the various categories of proposed changes in the budget
proposals for 2005 with respect to the 2004 proposals:
Analysis of Proposed Differences in 2005
CHF millions %
Statutory and other unavoidable
increases:
   Inflation 0.16 0.10%
   Statutory increases 5.21 3.14%
Sub-total statutory/unavoidable
increases 5.37 3.24%
Other WTO increases/(decreases)
   Additional staff resources 2.48 1.49%
   Other increases (net) 0.02 0.01%
Sub-total other WTOincreases/(decreases) 2.50
1.50%
WTO increase 7.87 4.74%
International Trade Centre 0.18 0.11%
Overall increase 8.05 4.85%
                                                     
4 … if it proves necessary due to unexpected changes in inflation rates and other elements (e.g. the
levels of translation resources required to cope with a greater or lesser volume of documentation)  when the
biennial budget was approved…, the Committee would examine a Revision to the second year of the biennial
budget prepared by the Director-General, which could propose increases, decreases or reallocations of resources
for the second year, and make the appropriate reco mmendation to the General Council for approval. This
flexibility might be particularly necessary in the first biennium.  This approach would also seem to provide thedesired level of predictability while at the same time taking into account the considerations expressed by some
Members … (WT/BFA/W/105/Rev.1)WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Inflation:  CHF 0.16 million – 0.10 per cent
21. While projections with regard to inflation in 2005 can only be tenuous at the moment, the
proposals have included a modest forecast for areas which are most likely to be affected, such as
building facilities, permanent equipment, expendable equipment and supplies, and official travel.  In
total, the projections amount to CHF 0.16 million, equivalent to an increase of 0.10% over the budget
proposals for 2004.
Statutory Increases:  CHF 5.21 million – 3.14%
22. The projections with regard to statutory increases in 2005 would cover the same elements as
outlined in paragraph 6 above, i.e. implementation of the methodology for salary adjustments, the
Performance Award System, the full funding of the additional posts proposed for 2004, etc. It is clear
that the projections will have to be reviewed in la te 2004 to verify their accuracy when more precise
data is available.
Additional Staff Resources:  CHF 2.48 million – 1.49 per cent
23. Proposals for additional staff resources include 9 and one-half additional posts and funds for
temporary assistance. The estimates associated with the additional posts are based on the usual salary,
pension and common staff costs for six months as well as recruitment-related expenses (travel and
removal, installation grants, advertisements, inte rviews, etc.) and represent 59.4% (CHF 1.47 million)
of the total amount proposed for additional staff resources.  Complete information and justificationswill be provided separately.
24. The remainder of the proposal for additional staff resources, corresponding to 40.6%
(CHF 1.00 million), relate primarily (72%) to resources for translation, documentation as well as
interpretation and are based on workload and expenditure increases over the past years.
Other increases (net):  CHF 0.02 million – 0.1 per cent
25. The total of other increases and decreases in the summary table (Annex B-1) stands at an
overall increase of CHF 0.20 million (0.12%).  However, after taking account of the proposals to
increase funding for the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO by CHF 0.18 million, the net
result is an increase of CHF 0.02 million.  The explanations of the various increases and decreases are
included in the detailed budget estimates furthe r in this document, but the major changes are
decreases for building facilities and permanent equipm ent, with increases for contractual services and
staff overheads.
Consolidation of temporary assistance in 2005:  cost neutral
26. At the present time, some 15 individuals wi ll have completed four years of temporary
assistance in the course of 2005.  It is highly probable that the number of individuals qualifying underthe conditions which have been applied for consolidations will diminish with a natural attrition
between the present time and the period from January through December 2005. As previously, the
cases concern primarily support staff in Language Services and Documentation Division, Rules
Division, Administration and General Services Division, Trade in Services Division, and the
Appellate Body and its Secretariat.
27. The transfer of credits as shown on the tables in Annexes B-1, 2 and 3 reflect the maximum
number of staff who would fulfil the conditions in 2005. In the autumn of 2004, the number of staffstill qualifying will be reviewed, and any consequences would be incorporated into an eventual
revision to the budget for 2005 for examination in the Committee on Budget, Finance and
Administration.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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WTO increase
28. The overall effect of the elements outlined in paragraphs 21 through 27 above for 2005
represent an increase of 4.74% (CHF 7.87 million) over the 2004 proposed budget.
International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO:  CHF 0.18 million – 0.11 per cent
29. In May of this year, the Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration took note of the
Preliminary Budget Estimates for 2005 (ITC/BUD/45) which provided an overall estimate ofCHF 32.84 million, to be financed equally by the United Nations and the WTO.  After taking account
miscellaneous income of CHF 0.24 million, a contribution for 2005 from the WTO amounting to
CHF 16.31 million is proposed.  Supplementary information with regard to the proposed 2005 budget
for the ITC is contained in document ITC/BUD/47.
Overall increase for 2005
The combined effect of increases for the WTO itself (paragraph 28) and the International Trade
Centre (paragraph 29) amount to CHF 8.05 mill ion, equivalent to an increase of 4.85% 
*
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INCOME ESTIMATES FOR 2004-2005
30. It is proposed that the total 2004 Budget for the WTO Secretariat (CHF 160,829,350) and the
costs of the Appellate Body and its Secr etariat (CHF 4,815,800), leading to a total of
CHF 165,645,150, as well as indicative figures for 20055 be financed as follows:
CHF
2004CHF
2005
Contributions on WTO Members 164,400,000 172,400,000
Miscellaneous Income 1,245,150 1,290,250
TOTAL 165,645,150 173,690,250
31. The details of miscellaneous income are as follows:
Miscellaneous Income2002
Actual
CHF2003
Budget
CHF2004
Estimates
CHF2005
Estimates
CHF
Sale of publications 68,813 100,000 100,000 120,000
Profit or (loss) on exchange (96,378)  -  - -
Savings on previous year's outstandingobligations358,683 105,000 155,000 160,000
Rental of meeting rooms, office space
and parking
  At Centre William Rappard to others161,695 130,000 140,000 140,000
Contributions of Obse rver Countries 674,372 680,000 700,000 720,000
Other:
 - Interest on Current Account 18,323 35,000 40,000 40,000
 - Various (4,872) 104,350 110,150 110,250
TOTAL 1,180,636 1,154,350 1,245,150 1,290,250
32. On the basis of the proposed expenditure budget for 2004, an amount of CHF 164,400,000 is
to be assessed on Members in the form of contributions.  The draft scale of contributions, which can
be found in Annex F, contains a minimum contribution of 0.015 per cent for Members whose share in
the total trade of all Members is less than 0.015 per cent.  The draft scale takes into account the
amounts to be deducted from the relevant contributions for 2004 under the terms of the Early Payment
Encouragement Scheme.  The 2005 assessment will be based on up-dated trade statistics in 2004 asforeseen in Regulation 12.3(b) of the Revised Financial Regulations of the WTO.
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5 CHF 168,815,450 for the WTO Secretariat and CHF 4,874,800 for the Appellate Body and its
Secretariat, leading to a total of CHF 173,690,250.
6 See also WT/BFA/W/105/Rev.1, paragraph 3 (d).WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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WORKLOAD INDICATORS
33. The graphs on the following pages indicate the evolution of workload in several key areas of
WTO activities financed under the regular budget.
I. Translation and Documentation
Translation and Documentation:  Number of words in original language for translation
02,500,0005,000,0007,500,00010,000,00012,500,00015,000,00017,500,00020,000,000
Number of words 8,556,290 9,450,967 14,170,492 14,992, 274 14,456,912 16,319,752 17,687,131
% of chan ge 10.5% 49.9% 5.8% (3.6%) 12.9% 8.3%1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003(January - August)WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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II. Meetings
Meetings** (January–August)
** Formal, informal and private
Meetings:  Days of freelance interpreters (January–August)01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000
1 139 1 340 1 710 1 701 2 186 2 402 2 966 2 941 4 207
% chan ge 17.7% 27.6% (0.53%) 28.5% 9.9% 23.5% (0.8%) 43.0%1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
05001,0001,5002,0002,500
Number of days of freelance interpreters 614 725 806 1,017 1,353 1,157 1,812 2,047 2,268
% chan ge 18.1% 11.2% 26.2% 33.0% (14.5%) 56.6% 12.9% 10.8%1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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III.  Dispute Settlements Panels
Dispute Settlement Panels:  Expenditure
* Based on actual expenditure to 31/08/2003 .
Dispute Settlement Panels:  Average Expenditure per Month0200,000400,000600,000800,0001,000,0001,200,000
CHF 292,700 475,800 880,800 1,195,300 972,662 910,325 1,169,586 1,125,7301996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 20022003 
Estimated*
010,00020,00030,00040,00050,00060,00070,00080,00090,000100,000
CHF 24,392 39,650 73,400 99,600 81,055 75,860 97,465 93,815
% change 62.6% 85.1% 35.7% (18.6%) (6.4%) 28.5% (3.75%)1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 20022003 
EstimatedWT/BFA/SPEC/100
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ANNEX A-1
2004 PROPOSED CONSOLIDATED BUDGET  FOR THE WTO SECRETARIAT AND THE
APPELLATTE BODY AND ITS SECRETARIAT
(in Swiss francs)
WTO/
ITC
PartSectionAdjusted
2003 BudgetInflation StatutoryUnavoi-
dableIncrease
StaffConsoli-
dationIncrease/
(decrease)
OtherTotal
Increase/
decrease2004
Estimates
WTO      
 A     
 Sect  1 Work Years      
 (a)Salary 69,420,500 2,643,300 865,900 460,800  3,970,000 73,390,500
 (b)Pension 13,909,300 529,500 174,300 158,400   862,200 14,771,500
 (c)Common Staff Costs 13,195,400 67,000 913,400   980,400 14,175,800
 Sect  2 Temporary Assistance 15,508,580 - 1,972,370 (516,000) - 1,456,370 16,964,950
 B   
 Sect  3 Communications    
 (a) Telecommunications 754,500 - - 30,000 30,000 784,500
 (b) Postal Charges 1,587,000 - -  (2,000) (2,000)  1,585,000
 Sect  4 Building Facilities    
 (a) Rental 292,400 - - 20,000 20,000   312,400
 (b) Utilities 1,632,500 - - 13,000 13,000  1,645,500
 (c) Maintenance and Insurance 1,068,000 - - 160,000  160,000  1,228,000
 Sect  5 Permanent Equipment 3,697,600 (36,000) 126,000   (170,250)  (80,250)  3,617,350
 Sect  6 Expendable Equipment 1,412,370 - -  (2,370) (2,370)  1,410,000
 Sect  7 Contractual Services    
 (a) Reproduction 1,445,800 - -   (800) (800)  1,445,000
 (b) Office Automation 2,245,800 (6,000) 14,000 -   8,000  2,253,800
 (c)Other 321,000 - -  (54,000)  (54,000)   267,000
 C   
 Sect  8 Staff Overheads    
 (a) Training 480,000 - - 65,000 65,000   545,000
 (b) Insurance 1,210,700 678,800   3,500 13,000  695,300  1,906,000
 (c) Joint Services 542,000 15,000 - 90,000  105,000   647,000
 (d) Miscellaneous   78,500 (30,000) 70,000  40,000   118,500
 Sect  9 Missions      
 (a) Official 1,191,100 - - - -  1,191,100
 (b) Technical Technical
      Co-operation 1,383,200 - - - -  1,383,200
 Sect 10 Trade Policy Training
              Cources 4,297,500 - - (416,500)  (416,500)  3,881,000
 Sect 11Various    
 (a) Representation and Hospitality 284,000 - - - -   284,000
 (b) Dispute Settlement Panels 1,287,000 - - -  1,287,000
 (d) Appellate Body Members 618,200 - - 1,800   1,800   620,000
 (e) Library 586,900 - - 30,100 30,100   617,000
 (f) Publications 230,000 - - 55,000 55,000   285,000
 (g) Public Information Activities 210,000 - - - -   210,000
 (h) External Auditors   50,000 - - -  50,000
 (i) Ministerial Operating Fund 400,000 - - 300,000  300,000   700,000
 (j) ISO   57,500 - -   (500) (500)  57,000
 (k) Other   83,000 - - 7,000   7,000  90,000
 (l) Appellate Body
     Operating Fund - - 1,800,000 - (103,200)  1,696,800  1,696,800
 Sect 12Unforeseen 100,000 - -  -   100,000
WTO Sub-total 139,580,350  3,861,600 1,800,000 4,139,470 - 138,480 9,939,550 149,519,900
      
ITC      
 D    
 Sect 13  Contribution to ITC 15,374,000 - - 751,250  751,250  16,125,250
ITC Sub-total  15,374,000  -  -  751,250  751,250 16,125,250
         
TOTAL   154,954,350  3,861,600 1,800,000   4,139,470 - 889,730 10,690,800 165,645,150
Percentage with respect to adjusted 2003 Budget 0.00% 2.49% 1.16% 2.67% 0.00% 0.57% 6.89%WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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ANNEX A-2
2004 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR WTO SECRETARIAT
(in Swiss francs)
WTO/
ITC
PartSectionAdjusted
2003 BudgetInflation StatutoryUnavoi-
dableIncrease
StaffConsoli-
dationIncrease/
(decrease)
OtherTotal
Increase/
decrease2004
Estimates
WTO     
 A    
 Sect  1 Work Years     
 (a)Salary 67,841,400 2,614,300 865,900 384,000  3,864,200  71,705,600
 (b)Pension 13,594,600 520,500 174,300 132,000    826,800  14,421,400
 (c)Common Staff Costs 12,896,400 75,500 913,400    988,900  13,885,300
 Sect  2 Temporary Assistance 15,472,580 - 1,972,370 (516,000) - 1,456,370  16,928,950
 B    
 Sect  3 Communications    
 (a) Telecommunications 748,000 - - 30,000 30,000   778,000
 (b) Postal Charges  1,587,000 - - (2,000) (2,000) 1,585,000
 Sect  4 Building Facilities    
 (a) Rental 292,400 - - 20,000 20,000   312,400
 (b) Utilities  1,619,500 - - 13,000 13,000 1,632,500
 (c) Maintenance and Insurance  1,063,000 - - 160,000   160,000 1,223,000
 Sect  5 Permanent Equipment  3,653,600 (36,000) 126,000 (149,250) (59,250) 3,594,350
 Sect  6 Expendable Equipment  1,394,670 - - (4,670) (4,670) 1,390,000
 Sect  7 Contractual Services    
 (a) Reproduction  1,430,800 - - (800) (800) 1,430,000
 (b) Office Automation  2,245,800 (6,000) 14,000 -   8,000 2,253,800
 (c)Other 321,000 - -  (54,000)   (54,000)   267,000
 C   
 Sect  8 Staff Overheads    
 (a) Training 480,000 - - 40,000 40,000   520,000
 (b) Insurance  1,205,700 674,800 3,500 13,000   691,300 1,897,000
 (c) Joint Services 542,000 15,000 - 90,000   105,000   647,000
 (d) Miscellaneous 76,500 (30,000) 70,000  40,000   116,500
 Sect  9 Missions     
 (a) Official  1,181,100 - - - - 1,181,100
 (b) Technical Technical
      Co-operation  1,383,200 - - - - 1,383,200
 Sect 10 Trade Policy Training Cources  4,297,500 - - (416,500) (416,500) 3,881,000
 Sect 11Various   
 (a) Representation and Hospitality 283,000 - - - -   283,000
 (b) Dispute Settlement Panels  1,287,000 - - - 1,287,000
 (e) Library 581,900 - - 27,100 27,100   609,000
 (f) Publications 230,000 - - 55,000 55,000   285,000
 (g) Public Information Activities 210,000 - - - -   210,000
 (h) External Auditors 50,000 - - -  50,000
 (i) Ministerial Operating Fund 400,000 - - 300,000   300,000   700,000
 (j) ISO 57,500 - - (500) (500)  57,000
 (k) Other 83,000 - - 7,000   7,000  90,000
 Sect 12Unforeseen 100,000 - - -   100,000
WTO Sub-total 136,609,150  3,828,100  4,139,470 - 127,380 8,094,950 144,704,100
     
ITC     
 D   
 Sect 13  Contribution to ITC 15,374,000 - - 751,250 751,250 16,125,250
ITC Sub-total 15,374,000  - - 751,250 751,250 16,125,250
  
         
TOTAL   151,983,150  3,828,100  4,139,470 - 878,630 8,846,200 160,829,350
Percentage with respect to adjusted 2003 Budget 0.00% 2.52% 0.00% 2.72% 0.00% 0.58% 5.82%WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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ANNEX A-3
2004 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR APPELLATE BODY SECRETARIAT
(in Swiss francs)
WTO/
ITC
PartSectionAdjusted
2003
BudgetInflation StatutoryUnavoi-
dableIncrease
StaffConsoli-
dationIncrease/
(decrease)
OtherTotal
Increase/
decrease2004
Estimates
WTO         
 A     
 Sect  1 Work Years      
 (a)Salary  1,579,100  29,000  - 76,800  105,800 1,684,900
 (b)Pension 314,700   9,000  - 26,400  35,400  350,100
 (c)Common Staff Costs 299,000  (8,500)  -  (8,500)  290,500
 Sect  2 Temporary Assistance 36,000  - - -  36,000
B
 Sect  3 Communications    
 (a) Telecommunications 6,500  - - -  6,500
 Sect  4 Building Facilities    
 (b) Utilities 13,000  - - -  13,000
 (c) Maintenance and
     Insurance 5,000  - - -  5,000
 Sect  5 Permanent Equipment 44,000  - -   (21,000)  (21,000)  23,000
 Sect  6 Expendable Equipment 17,700  - - 2,300  2,300  20,000
 Sect  7 Contractual Services     
 (a) Reproduction 15,000  - - -  15,000
 C    
 Sect  8 Staff Overheads     
 (a) Training -  - - 25,000  25,000  25,000
 (b) Insurance 5,000   4,000  -  4,000  9,000
 (d) Miscellaneous 2,000  -  - -  2,000
 Sect  9 Missions     
 (a) Official 10,000  -  - - -  10,000
 Sect 11Various     
 (a) Representation and
 Hospitality 1,000  -  - -  1,000
 (d) Appellate Body Members 618,200  -  - 1,800  1,800  620,000
 (e) Library 5,000  -  - 3,000  3,000  8,000
 (l) Appellate Body
Operating Fund -  -   1,800,000 - (103,200) 1,696,800 1,696,800
WTO Sub-total  2,971,200  33,500 1,800,000 - - 11,100 1,844,600 4,815,800
      
TOTAL   2,971,200  33,500 1,800,000 - - 11,100 1,844,600 4,815,800
Percentage with respect to adjusted 2003 Budget 0.00% 1.13% 60.58% 0.00% 0.00% 0.37% 62.08%WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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ANNEX B-1
2005 PROPOSED CONSOLIDATED BUDGET  FOR THE WTO SECRETARIAT AND THE
APPELLATTE BODY AND ITS SECRETARIAT
(in Swiss francs)
WTO/
ITC
PartSection2004
EstimatesInflation StatutoryUnavoi-
dableIncrease
StaffConsoli-
dationIncrease/
(decrease)
OtherTotal
Increase/
decrease2005
Estimates
WTO          
 A      
 Sect  1 Work Years       
 (a)Salary 73,390,500  4,480,200  587,600   384,000 5,451,800  78,842,300
 (b)Pension 14,771,500  905,100  118,300   132,000 1,155,400 15,926,900
 (c)Common Staff Costs 14,175,800  (49,400)  619,700 - 570,300  14,746,100
 Sect  2 Temporary Assistance 16,964,950  - 1,005,000 (516,000) 489,000  17,453,950
 B    
 Sect  3 Communications     
 (a) Telecommunications 784,500  - - - 20,000   20,000 804,500
 (b) Postal Charges 1,585,000  - - - 20,000   20,000  1,605,000
 Sect  4 Building Facilities     
 (a) Rental 312,400  - - - - 312,400
 (b) Utilities 1,645,500 16,000 - - -   3,000   19,000  1,664,500
 (c) Maintenance and Insurance 1,228,000 9,000 - - -  (62,000) (53,000)  1,175,000
 Sect  5 Permanent Equipment 3,617,350 6,000 (126,000)  85,500 -   (374,000) (408,500)  3,208,850
 Sect  6 Expendable Equipment 1,410,000 5,000 -  - - 35,000   40,000  1,450,000
 Sect  7 Contractual Services      
 (a) Reproduction 1,445,000  -  - - -  1,445,000
 (b) Office Automation 2,253,800  (14,000)  9,500 - 146,000 141,500  2,395,300
 (c)Other 267,000  - - - 10,000   10,000 277,000
 C    
 Sect  8 Staff Overheads     
 (a) Training 545,000  - - - 195,000 195,000 740,000
 (b) Insurance 1,906,000  83,500  2,400 -   6,000   91,900  1,997,900
 (c) Joint Services 647,000  - - - - 647,000
 (d) Miscellaneous 118,500  (70,000)  47,500 - (22,500)  96,000
 Sect  9 Missions      
 (a) Official 1,191,100 36,000 - - - -   36,000  1,227,100
 (b) Technical Co-operation 1,383,200 41,000 - - - -   41,000  1,424,200
 Sect 10 Trade Policy Training Courses 3,881,000  - - - -  3,881,000
 Sect 11Various    
 (a) Representation and
      Hospitality 284,000  - - - - 284,000
 (b) Dispute Settlement Panels 1,287,000 29,000 - - -   29,000  1,316,000
 (d) Appellate Body Members 620,000  - - - - 620,000
 (e) Library 617,000 18,000 - - - 15,000   33,000 650,000
 (f) Publications 285,000  - - - - 285,000
 (g) Public Information Activities 210,000  - - - - 210,000
 (h) External Auditors  50,000  - - - -  50,000
 (i) Ministerial Operating Fund 700,000  - - - - - 700,000
 (j) ISO  57,000  - - - -  57,000
 (k) Other  90,000  - - -   5,000 5,000  95,000
 (l) Appellate Body Operating
     Fund 1,696,800  - - - -  1,696,800
 Sect 12Unforeseen   100,000  - - - - 100,000
WTO Sub-total  149,519,900  160,000 5,209,400  2,475,500 - 19,000 7,863,900 157,383,800
       
ITC       
 D      
 Sect 13  Contribution to ITC 16,125,250  - - - 181,200 181,200  16,306,450
ITC Sub-total  16,125,250  - - - 181,200 181,200 16,306,450
     
TO AL  165,645,150  160,000 5,209,400  2,475,500 - 200,200 8,045,100 173,690,250
Percentage with respect to 2004 Budget estimates 0.10% 3.14% 0.00% 1.49% 0.00% 0.12% 4.86%WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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ANNEX B-2
2005 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR WTO SECRETARIAT
(in Swiss francs)
WTO/
ITC
PartSection2004
EstimatesInflation StatutoryUnavoi-
dableIncrease
StaffConsoli-
dationIncrease/
(decrease)
OtherTotal
Increase/
decrease2005
Estimates
WTO          
 A      
 Sect  1 Work Years       
 (a)Salary 71,705,600  4,439,900  587,600 384,000 5,411,500  77,117,100
 (b)Pension 14,421,400  897,300  118,300 132,000 1,147,600  15,569,000
 (c)Common Staff Costs 13,885,300  (55,300)  619,700 - 564,400  14,449,700
 Sect  2 Temporary Assistance 16,928,950  -  1,005,000 (516,000) 489,000  17,417,950
 B      
 Sect  3 Communications       
 (a) Telecommunications 778,000 - - - 20,000   20,000  798,000
 (b) Postal Charges 1,585,000 - - - 20,000   20,000  1,605,000
 Sect  4 Building Facilities    
 (a) Rental 312,400 - - - -  312,400
 (b) Utilities 1,632,500 16,000 - - - 3,000   19,000  1,651,500
 (c) Maintenance and Insurance 1,223,000 9,000 - - -  (62,000) (53,000)  1,170,000
 Sect  5 Permanent Equipment   3,594,350 6,000 (126,000)  85,500 - (374,000) (408,500)  3,185,850
 Sect  6 Expendable Equipment   1,390,000 5,000 - - - 35,000 40,000  1,430,000
 Sect  7 Contractual Services     
 (a) Reproduction 1,430,000  - - - -  1,430,000
 (b) Office Automation 2,253,800  (14,000)   9,500 - 146,000 141,500  2,395,300
 (c)Other 267,000  - - - 10,000   10,000  277,000
 C    
 Sect  8 Staff Overheads     
 (a) Training 520,000  - - - 190,000 190,000  710,000
 (b) Insurance 1,897,000  83,500   2,400 - 6,000   91,900  1,988,900
 (c) Joint Services 647,000  - - - -  647,000
 (d) Miscellaneous 116,500  (70,000)  47,500 - (22,500)  94,000
 Sect  9 Missions      
 (a) Official 1,181,100 36,000 - - - -   36,000  1,217,100
 (b) Technical Co-operation 1,383,200 41,000 - - - -   41,000  1,424,200
 Sect 10 Trade Policy Training Courses 3,881,000  - - - -  3,881,000
 Sect 11Various    
 (a) Representation and
      Hospitality 283,000  - - - -  283,000
 (b) Dispute Settlement Panels 1,287,000 29,000 - - -   29,000  1,316,000
 (e) Library 609,000 18,000 - - - 15,000   33,000  642,000
 (f) Publications 285,000  - - - -  285,000
 (g) Public Information Activities 210,000  - - - -  210,000
 (h) External Auditors 50,000  - - - -  50,000
 (i) Ministerial Operating Fund 700,000  - - - - -  700,000
 (j) ISO 57,000  - - - -  57,000
 (k) Other 90,000  - - - 5,000  5,000  95,000
 Sect 12Unforeseen 100,000  - - - -  100,000
WTO Sub-total 144,704,100  160,000 5,155,400  2,475,500 - 14,000 7,804,900 152,509,000
       
ITC       
 D       
 Sect 13  Contribution to ITC 16,125,250 - - - 181,200 181,200 16,306,450
ITC Sub-total 16,125,250 - - - 181,200 181,200 16,306,450
    
TOTAL 160,829,350  160,000 5,155,400  2,475,500 - 195,200 7,986,100 168,815,450
Percentage with respect to 2004 Budget estimates 0.10% 3.21% 0.00% 1.54% 0.00% 0.12% 4.97%WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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ANNEX B-3
2005 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR APPELLATE BODY SECRETARIAT
(in Swiss francs)
WTO/
ITC
PartSection2004
EstimatesInflation StatutoryUnavoi-
dableIncrease
StaffConsoli-
dationIncrease/
(decrease)
OtherTotal
Increase/
decrease2005
Estimates
WTO          
 A      
 Sect  1 Work Years       
 (a)Salary  1,684,900  40,300 - - 40,300 1,725,200
 (b)Pension 350,100  7,800 - - 7,800 357,900
 (c)Common Staff Costs 290,500  5,900 - - 5,900 296,400
 Sect  2 Temporary Assistance 36,000  - - - -  36,000
 B   
 Sect  3 Communications    
 (a) Telecommunications 6,500  - - - - 6,500
 Sect  4 Building Facilities    
 (b) Utilities 13,000 - - - - -  13,000
 (c) Maintenance and Insurance 5,000  - - - - 5,000
 Sect  5 Permanent Equipment 23,000  - - - - -  23,000
 Sect  6 Expendable Equipment 20,000  - - - -  20,000
 Sect  7 Contractual Services    
 (a) Reproduction 15,000  - - - -  15,000
 C   
 Sect  8 Staff Overheads    
 (a) Training 25,000  - - - 5,000 5,000  30,000
 (b) Insurance 9,000  - - - - - 9,000
 (d) Miscellaneous 2,000  - - - - 2,000
 Sect  9 Missions    
 (a) Official 10,000  - - - - -  10,000
 Sect 11   Various    
 (a) Representation and Hospitality 1,000  - - - - 1,000
 (d) Appellate Body Members 620,000  - - - - 620,000
 (e) Library 8,000  - - - - 8,000
 (l) Appellate Body Operating Fund  1,696,800  - - - -   1,696,800
WTO Sub-total  4,815,800 - 54,000 - - 5,000 59,000 4,874,800
    
TOTAL    4,815,800 - 54,000 - - 5,000 59,000 4,874,800
Percentage with respect to 2003 Budget estimates 0.00% 1.12% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.10% 1.23%WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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ANNEX C
ORGANIZATIONAL EVOLUTION SINCE 1995
WTO
YearAppropriations
CHFHuman Resources
Work/Years Temporary Assistance
P and above GS Total P and above
CHFGS
CHFTOTAL
CHF
1995 105,389,500 a/ 200 245 445 5,647,500 2,307,000 7,954,500
1996 115,693,503 250 263 513 4,720,000 2,323,000 7,043,000
1997 114,111,750 b/ 246 261 507 6,098,000 2,723,000 8,821,000
1,581,000 c/ 4 2 6 -:  : 4,500 4,500
1998 114,399,250 b/ 248 259 507 6,098,000 2,723,000 8,821,000
1,579,600 c/ 4 2 6 -:  : 4,500 4,500
1999 120,204,500 b/
1,990,950 c/524
99,336,750
4,500
2000125,386,460
2,310,550b/
c/530
99,826,850
18,000
2001131,305,610
2,778,000b/
c/539
1311,443,050
108,500
2002140,313,850
2,816,000b/
c/547
1313,205,100
36,000
2003151,983,150
2,971,200b)
c)577
1316,504,580
36,000
2004160,829,350
4,815,800d)
e)591
1316,928,950
36,000
2005168,815,450
4,874,800d)
e)600.5*
1317,417,950
36,000
a/ WTO/GATT.
b/ WTO Secretariat.c/ Appellate Body (permanent costs).
d/ Proposed WTO budget.
e/ Proposed Appellate Body budget (permanent costs).
*Not including proposed consolidations.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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ANNEX D
TABLE OF 2003 REGULAR STAFF POSITIONS
(in work/ years)
Division Grades
1-10Grades
11-12
DirectorsSenior
ManagementTotal
Senior Management 5.5 1 5 11.5
Office Of The Director-General 9 5 14
Accessions Division 7.4 1 8.4
Administration and General Services Division 97.6 1 98.6
Agriculture & Commodities Division 15 1 16
Council and TNC Division 10.5 1 11.5
Development Division 6.5 1 7.5
Economic Research and Statistics Division 49 1 50
External Relations Division 8 1 9
Informatics Division 22.5 1 23.5
Information & Media Relations Division 20.5 1 21.5
Institute for Training and Technical Co-operation 25 1 26
Intellectual Property Division 13.5 1 14.5
Language Services & Documentation Division 141 1 142
Legal Affairs Division 16 1 17
Market Access Division 14 1 15
Rules Division 15 1 16
Technical Cooperation Audit 1 1
Textiles Division 3 1 4
Textiles Monitoring Body 1 1 2
Trade & Environment Division 9 1 10
Trade and Finance Division 7 1 8
Trade in Services Division 15 1 16
Trade Policies Review Division 33 1 34
Sub-Total 545 26 6 577
Appellate Body 12 1 13
TOTAL 557 27 6 590WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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ANNEX E
SCHEDULE OF TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE
(in Swiss francs)
2003
Budget2004
Estimates2005
Estimates
  -  Interpreters 1,494,000 1,901,000 2,101,000
  -  Translators 7,503,000 8,000,000 8,100,000
  -  Other Professionals 839,550 839,550 944,550
  -  Replacements 475,000 600,000 600,000
  -  Consultants EDP 1,762,500 1,647,300 1,632,100
  -  Secretaries/Clerks 272,000 223,700 204,900
  -  Proofreaders 25,000 0 0
  -  Pool 668,000 768,000 768,000
  -  Messengers/Drivers/Guards/
Manual Workers874,030 1,116,400 1,266,400
  -  Roneo 236,000 281,500 281,500
  -  Conference Staff 21,000 91,000 91,000
  -  Overtime 500,000 500,000 500,000
  -  Internships 208,500 208,500 208,500
  -  Common Staff Costs 630,000 788,000 756,000
  TOTAL 15,508,580 16,964,950 17,453,950WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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ANNEX F
DRAFT SCALE OF CONTRIBUTIONS FOR 2004
(Minimum contribution of 0.015%)
2003
Contribution2004
ContributionInterest
Earned72004 net
Contribution MEMBERS
CHF % CHF CHF CHF
Albania 23,070 0.015 24,660 34 24,626
Angola 106,122 0.080 131,520 103 131,417
Antigua and Barbuda 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Argentina 713,632 0.462 759,528 759,528
Armenia 0.015 24,660 24,660
Australia 1,757,934 1.154 1,897,176 3,631 1,893,545
Austria 2,111,674 1.376 2,262,144 4,227 2,257,917
Bahrain 106,122 0.073 120,012 160 119,852
Bangladesh 163,028 0.105 172,620 43 172,577
Barbados 30,760 0.019 31,236 39 31,197
Belgium 4,107,998 2.682 4,409,208 5,341 4,403,867
Belize 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Benin 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Bolivia 38,450 0.025 41,100 69 41,031
Botswana 58,444 0.035 57,540 84 57,456
Brazil 1,424,188 0.950 1,561,800 842 1,560,958
Brunei Darussalam 63,058 0.041 67,404 110 67,294
Bulgaria 144,572 0.097 159,468 45 159,423
Burkina Faso 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Burundi 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Cameroon 38,450 0.026 42,744 84 42,660
Canada 6,067,410 3.940 6,477,360 10,806 6,466,554
Central African Republic 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Chad 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Chile 446,020 0.311 511,284 384 510,900
China, People's Republic of 4,852,390 3.261 5,361,084 7,687 5,353,397
Colombia 324,518 0.219 360,036 6 360,030
Congo 35,374 0.024 39,456 39,456
Costa Rica 149,186 0.101 166,044 270 165,774
Côte d'Ivoire 96,894 0.063 103,572 103,572
Croatia 204,554 0.138 226,872 276 226,596
Cuba 107,660 0.064 105,216 200 105,016
Cyprus 93,818 0.061 100,284 150 100,134
Czech Republic 767,462 0.510 838,440 1,598 836,842
Democratic Republic of the 24,608 0.019 31,236 31,236
                                                     
7 Interest earned in 2002 under the Early Payment Encouragement Scheme (L/6384) and to be deducted
from the 2004 contribution.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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2003
Contribution2004
ContributionInterest
Earned72004 net
Contribution MEMBERS
CHF % CHF CHF CHF
Congo
Denmark 1,462,638 0.954 1,568,376 2,623 1,565,753
Djibouti 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Dominica 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Dominican Republic 196,864 0.125 205,500 205,500
Ecuador 118,426 0.082 134,808 201 134,607
Egypt 398,342 0.258 424,152 784 423,368
El Salvador 90,742 0.060 98,640 105 98,535
Estonia 98,432 0.064 105,216 192 105,024
European Communities 0 0.000 0 0
Fiji 23,070 0.016 26,304 41 26,263
Finland 987,396 0.635 1,043,940 1,982 1,041,958
Former Yugosalve Republic of
Macedonia 0.025 41,100 41,100
France 8,108,336 5.212 8,568,528 14,040 8,554,488
Gabon 52,292 0.035 57,540 57,540
Gambia 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Georgia 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Germany 13,718,960 8.885 14,606,940 14,961 14,591,979
Ghana 66,134 0.038 62,472 62,472
Greece 632,118 0.409 672,396 502 671,894
Grenada 23,070 0.015 24,660 42 24,618
Guatemala 96,894 0.063 103,572 152 103,420
Guinea 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Guinea-Bissau 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Guyana 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Haiti 23,070 0.015 24,660 2 24,658
Honduras 59,982 0.038 62,472 97 62,375
Hong Kong, China 4,869,308 3.196 5,254,224 10,083 5,244,141
Hungary 641,346 0.427 701,988 528 701,460
Iceland 69,210 0.043 70,692 138 70,554
India 1,307,300 0.799 1,313,556 786 1,312,770
Indonesia 1,190,412 0.811 1,333,284 1,314 1,331,970
Ireland 1,847,138 1.149 1,888,956 3,571 1,885,385
Israel 873,584 0.563 925,572 1,185 924,387
Italy 6,361,168 4.156 6,832,464 9,676 6,822,788
Jamaica 83,052 0.055 90,420 66 90,354
Japan 9,780,142 6.394 10,51 1,736 4,340 10,507,396
Jordan 93,818 0.064 105,216 98 105,118
Kenya 67,672 0.045 73,980 109 73,871
Korea, Republic of 3,640,446 2.415 3,970,260 6,582 3,963,678
Kuwait 292,220 0.196 322,224 322,224
Kyrgyz Republic 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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2003
Contribution2004
ContributionInterest
Earned72004 net
Contribution MEMBERS
CHF % CHF CHF CHF
Latvia 75,362 0.050 82,200 147 82,053
Lesotho 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Liechtenstein 38,450 0.025 41,100 83 41,017
Lithuania 116,888 0.081 133,164 206 132,958
Luxembourg 530,610 0.343 563,892 856 563,036
Macao, China 95,356 0.064 105,216 178 105,038
Madagascar 23,070 0.015 24,660 44 24,616
Malawi 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Malaysia 1,948,646 1.302 2,140,488 3,707 2,136,781
Maldives 23,070 0.015 24,660 15 24,645
Mali 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Malta 75,362 0.047 77,268 140 77,128
Mauritania 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Mauritius 58,444 0.039 64,116 121 63,995
Mexico 3,486,646 2.231 3,667,764 1,760 3,666,004
Moldova 23,070 0.015 24,660 4,864 19,796
Mongolia 23,070 0.015 24,660 29 24,631
Morocco 239,928 0.155 254,820 253 254,567
Mozambique 23,070 0.015 24,660 4 24,656
Myanmar, Union of 49,216 0.033 54,252 69 54,183
Namibia 41,526 0.027 44,388 47 44,341
Netherlands, Kingdom of the 5,353,778 3.422 5,625,768 6,589 5,619,179
New Zealand 373,734 0.250 411,000 736 410,264
Nicaragua 30,760 0.019 31,236 63 31,173
Niger 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Nigeria 292,220 0.191 314,004 314,004
Norway 1,261,160 0.855 1,405,620 2,369 1,403,251
Oman 161,490 0.111 182,484 239 182,245
Pakistan 235,314 0.157 258,108 212 257,896
Panama 175,332 0.115 189,060 228 188,832
Papua New Guinea 47,678 0.030 49,320 63 49,257
Paraguay 79,976 0.051 83,844 83,844
Peru 193,788 0.130 213,720 213,720
Philippines 850,514 0.562 923,928 4 923,924
Poland 1,068,910 0.701 1,152,444 1,820 1,150,624
Portugal 879,736 0.567 932,148 472 931,676
Qatar 127,654 0.070 115,080 115,080
Romania 256,846 0.176 289,344 492 288,852
Rwanda 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Saint Lucia 23,070 0.015 24,660 26 24,634
Senegal 33,836 0.022 36,168 72 36,096
Sierra Leone 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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2003
Contribution2004
ContributionInterest
Earned72004 net
Contribution MEMBERS
CHF % CHF CHF CHF
Singapore 3,034,474 2.022 3,324,168 3,587 3,320,581
Slovak Republic 304,524 0.191 314,004 504 313,500
Slovenia 246,080 0.159 261,396 467 260,929
Solomon Islands 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
South Africa 739,778 0.488 802,272 279 801,993
Spain 3,740,416 2.411 3,963,684 3,218 3,960,466
Sri Lanka 144,572 0.093 152,892 100 152,792
St.  Kitts and Nevis 23,070 0.015 24,660 41 24,619
St.  Vincent and the Grenadines 23,070 0.015 24,660 26 24,634
Suriname 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Swaziland 24,608 0.016 26,304 54 26,250
Sweden 2,208,568 1.397 2,296,668 4,502 2,292,166
Switzerland 2,251,632 1.463 2,405,172 4,314 2,400,858
Chinese Taipei 3,123,678 2.000 3,288,000 635 3,287,365
Tanzania 36,912 0.024 39,456 39,456
Thailand 1,461,100 0.991 1,629,204 2,919 1,626,285
Togo 23,070 0.015 24,660 24,660
Trinidad and Tobago 63,058 0.040 65,760 47 65,713
Tunisia 195,326 0.129 212,076 353 211,723
Turkey 1,150,424 0.740 1,216,560 770 1,215,790
Uganda 27,684 0.017 27,948 8 27,940
United Arab Emirates 855,128 0.523 859,812 678 859,134
United Kingdom of Great Britain
  and Northern Ireland 8,800,436 5.689 9,352,716 17,630 9,335,086
United States of America 24,452,662 15.735 25,868,340 4,725 25,863,615
Uruguay 89,204 0.057 93,708 1 93,707
Venezuela 486,008 0.326 535,944 535,944
Zambia 23,070 0.016 26,304 26,304
Zimbabwe 69,210 0.044 72,336 69 72,267
TOTAL 153,800,000 100.000 164,400,000 181,224 164,218,776WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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2004-2005 DETAILED BUDGET ESTIMATES
WTO Secretariat8
Part A - Staff
Part A of the budget proposals cover all salary, pensi on and common staff costs for those staff in regular
positions and those hired under temporar y assistance.  For regular staff, standard costing has been used.
Standard costs are composed of a number of elements  under Salaries and Common Staff Costs;  they can
vary from year to year with changes in the cost of  living, conditions of service, places of recruitment,
number of expected retirements and home leave en titlements (authorized every second year).  Since
1 January 1999, the WTO Conditions of Service are applied.  These conditions of service include,
inter alia , the provision that "Salaries … shall be on a si ngle scale covering all levels of functions …"9
EVOLUTION OF STANDARD COSTS 2003-2005
34. The following table shows the evolution of standard costs from the 2003 budget to the
proposals for 2005, with details in paragraphs 35-39
Standard Costs for WTO staff CHF
2003 Budget2004 Budget
Proposals2005 Budget
Proposals
(a) Salary 121,100 123,400 129,500
(b) Contribution to the WTO Pension Plan 24,300 24,800 26,000
(c) Other common staff costs:
- sickness insurance 6,000 6,200 6,900
- rental subsidy    600    400    300
- separation grants 1,400 1,000    800
- family allowances 6,500 6,700 6,900
- education grants 4,600 4,600 4,600
- home leave travel 1,800 1,800 1,800
- various other staff costs (non-residents
allowances, language allowance,installation and repatriation grants andseparation payments)2,100
23,0001,800
22,5001,500
22,800
TOTAL 168,400 170,700 178,300
                                                     
 8 Not including the Appellate Body and its Secretariat.  Examination of the proposed budget for the WTO
Secretariat may be facilitated by consulting the fold-out table on the last page of this document in order to identify
project areas which cut across several budget section.
9 WT/L/282, Annex 2, Compensation Philosophy, paragraph 10.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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EVOLUTION OF OVERALL STAFF COSTS 2003-2005
35. With regard to salaries in 2004, changes in th e staff population as well as statutory entitlements
amount to an increase of CHF 2.6 milli on.  By its decision on 15 May 2003 (WT/GC/M/80), the
General Council, acting on a recommendation of the Committee on Budget, Finance and
Administration (WT/BFA/64), approved the methodology for future salary adjustments in the WTO.In addition, as called for in Staff Regulation 6.4, the General Council had previously approved the
Performance Award System on 8 February 2001 (doc ument WT/GC/M/63), which replaces the former
annual step-in-grade system which is in wide use in the Common System and which was formerly
applied in the GATT, and subsequently in the WTO.
36. Other elements included in the net increase for salaries of CHF 2.6 million are the full
funding of new posts which had been financed for six months in 2003, a provision for regradings, and
the decrease of CHF 1.45 million resulting from the re-evaluation of the overall staff profile. Inaddition, a vacancy factor was introduced which resulted in a decrease in the recommended provision
of CHF 900,000 (CHF 720,000 for salaries and CHF 180,000 for pension contributions).
37. With regard to 2005, statutory entitlements for salaries are estimated at the present time
10 to
amount to CHF 4.3 million and include the implications of (i) the met hodology for salary adjustments,
(ii) fully funding the proposed 2004 new posts , and (iii) the Performance Award System.
38. The reasons for the evolution of costs for pension contributions and other common staff costs in
both 2004 and 2005 are basically the same as those outlined with regard to salaries;  the re-evaluation of
the overall staff profile has resulted in a total decrease of CHF 0.44 million for these items.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that while the prov isions for salary adjustments, performance pay and
regradings impact on pension contributions, they  have no influence on other common staff costs.
39. The following table for 2004-2005 is a summary of the above-mentioned information:
                                                     
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Salary Pension
ContributionsOther
Common
Staff CostsTotal
CHF CHF CHF CHF
2003 approved appropriations 67,841,400 13,594,600 12,896,400 94,332,400
Fully Funding 2003 new posts 382,200 76,200 149,400 607,800
2003 New posts recruitment costs - - (226,200) (226,200)
Transfer of loss of earnings insurance (210,000) (210,000)
Profile Re-evaluation (1,447,200) (417,300) (20,700) (1,885,200)
Salary Increase 2004 1,794,000 363,000 2,157,000
Consolidation of posts 2003 1,075,200 369,600 - 1,444,800
Regradings 2004 155,000 31,000 186,000
PAS 2004 1,375,100 278,000 1,653,100
Medical Insurance 2004 383,000 383,000
Vacancy Factor deletion (720,000) (180,000) (900,000)
2004 Statutory 2,614,300 520,500 75,500 3,210,300
2004 Consolidation* 384,000 132,000 516,000
New Posts 2004 865,900 174,300 913,400 1,953,600
Total 2004 71,705,600 14,421,400 13,885,300 100,012,300
Salary Increase 2005 1,927,000 390,000 118,700 2,435,700
Fully Funding 2004 New Posts 865,900 174,300 320,800 1,361,000
2004 New posts Recruitment Costs (592,600) (592,600)
Statutory 2005 (338,000) (338,000)
Medical Insurance 2005 435,800 435,800
PAS 2005 1,487,000 301,000 1,788,000
Regradings 2005 160,000 32,000 192,000
2005 Statutory 4,439,900 897,300 (55,300) 5,281,900
2005 Consolidation* 384,000 132,000 516,000
New Posts 2005 587,600 118,300 619,700 1,325,600
Total 2005 77,117,100 15,569,000 14,449,700 107,135,800
* See annexes A-2 and B-2 which indicate a corr esponding decrease in temporary assistance for 2004
and 2005 respectively under consolidation column.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Section 1 - Work/Years
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffConsoli-
dationProposed Budget for
2003 94,332,400 3,210,300 1,953,600 516,000 100,012,300 2004
2004 100,012,300 5,281,900 1,325,600 516,000 107,135,800 2005
2005 107,135,800
2003 Budget CHF 93,300,400
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 90,066,280
2002 Expenditure CHF 82,326,076
2001 Expenditure CHF 79,639,611
(a) Salary
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffConsoli-
dationProposed Budget for
2003 67,841,400 2,614,300 865,900 384,000 71,705,600 2004
2004 71,705,600 4,439,900 587,600 384,000 77,117,100 2005
2005 77,117,100
2003 Budget CHF 67,073,400
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 65,122,230
2002 Expenditure CHF 58,815,042
2001 Expenditure CHF 58,181,890
40. The salary scale of the WTO staff and its annual adjustment is based on WTO Staff
Regulation 6.2.  The estimates represent the costs of salary for 591 work/years in the WTO Secretariat
in 2004 and 600.5 in 2005, not including the proposed consolidations.11  Compared to the 2003
budget, there is an increase of CHF 3.9 million, of which CHF 2.6 million are statutory in nature.Fourteen new posts are proposed for 2004 and 9.5 for 2005.  Details regarding the specific positions
proposed and justifications are provided separately.
(b) Contribution to th e WTO Pension Plan
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffConsoli-
dationProposed Budget for
2003 13,594,600 520,500 174,300 132,000 14,421,400 2004
2004 14,421,400 897,300 118,300 132,000 15,569,000 2005
2005 15,569,000
2003 Budget CHF 13,330,600
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 12,555,200
2002 Expenditure CHF 11,402,930
2001 Expenditure CHF 11,009,709
41. The contributions to the WTO Pension Plan are based on the Regulations of the WTO
Pension Plan, Articles 20 and 21.  The contributions of the participant and of the WTO correspond to
7.5 per cent and 15 per cent of personable remuneration, respectively.  Compared to the 2003 budget,
there is a total increase of CHF 0.83 million for 2004, as detailed in the table in paragraph 39.
42. The provision for 2005 shows an increase of CHF 1.15 million as detailed in the table in
paragraph 39, and includes the implications of the 9.5 new posts proposed for 2005.
                                                     
11 See Introduction, paragraphs 13, 14, 26 and 27.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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(c) Other Common Staff Costs
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 12,896,400 75,500 913,400 13,.885,300 2004
2004 13,885,300 (55,300) 619,700 14,449,700 2005
2005 14,449,700
2003 Budget CHF 12,896,400
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 12,388,850
2002 Expenditure CHF 12,108,1032001 Expenditure CHF 10,448,012
43. The estimate for Common Staff Costs includes provision for sickness insurance, family
allowances, language allowances, education grants, travel on home leave, installation grants, travel
and removal and other common staff costs such as, repatriation grants and rental subsidies.  Thesecosts have been calculated in accordance with the entitlements under the WTO Staff Regulations.
They are based on the actual situation with regard to the staff, including projected retirements and
turnover.
44. The 2004 common staff costs show an overall increase of CHF 0.99 million compared to that
of the 2003 Budget of which 93% are related to the proposed new posts in 2004.  The remaining 7%of the increase in the allocation is mainly relate d to (i) changes in the make up of the WTO staff
population, (ii) the impact of the results of the salary survey, and (iii) increased medical insurance
costs.
45. The 2005 common staff costs show an overall increase of CHF 0.56 million and is due mainly
to the proposed 9.5 new posts.
Section 2 - Temporary Assistance
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffConsoli-
dationProposed Budget for
2003 15,472,580 1,972,370 (516,000) 16,928,950 2004
2004 16,928,950 1,005,000 (516,000) 17,417,950 2005
2005 17,417,950
2003 Budget CHF 16,504,580
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 20,127,530
2002 Expenditure CHF 19,952,687
2001 Expenditure CHF 16,957,142
46. The allocation for temporary assistance covers freelance interpreters and translators,
consultants, secretaries, clerks, typists and other temporary staff.  It also covers the replacement of
staff on long sick or maternity leave.  The proposed 2004 allocation shows an increase of
CHF 1.5 millions compared to the 2003 budget.  The increase relates primarily to the need fortranslators, interpreters, support staff, and replacement of staff on maternity and extended medical
leave.  The table provided in Annex E gives a breakdown of the various elements of temporary
assistance.
47. The proposed allocation for 2005 shows an increase of CHF 0.5 million compared to 2004.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Part B - Administrative Costs
Administrative costs include the maintenance and in surance of the building and associated facilities,
permanent and expendable equipment, communication costs, costs related to the reproduction ofdocuments and those for informatics/office automation.
Section 3 – Communications
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 2,335,000 28,000 2,363,000 2004
2004 2,363,000 40,000 2,403,000 2005
2005 2,403,000
2003 Budget CHF 2,335,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 2,126,3702002 Expenditure CHF 2,235,785
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,901,509
(a) Telecommunications
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 748,000 30,000 778,000 2004
2004 778,000 20,000 798,000 2005
2005 798,000
2003 Budget CHF 748,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 741,150
2002 Expenditure CHF 663,579
2001 Expenditure CHF 558,116
48. The estimate of CHF 778,000 provides for all telecommunications charges as well as for the
rental of telephone lines.  The increase of CHF 3 0,000 over the 2003 Budget is primarily due to the
result of increase in the volume of communications, and the yearly subscription of the network of the
walkie-talkies to allow for rapid communication among WTO guards.
49. Compared to 2004, the proposed provision for 2005 shows an increase of CHF 20,000 based
pm expenditure trends in recent years.
(b) Postal charges
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 1,587,000 (2,000) 1,585,000 2004
2004 1,585,000 20,000 1,605,000 2005
2005 1,605,000
2003 Budget CHF 1,587,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,385,220
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,572,206
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,343,394
50. The estimate provides for the cost of postage, pouch services (through the United Nations)
and of freight and cartage.  The 2004 allocation is decreased by CHF 2,000.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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51. Compared to 2004, the proposed provision for 2005 shows an increase of CHF 20,000 based
on anticipated increases in both tariffs and volume.
Section 4 - Building Facilities
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 2,974,900 193,000 3,167,900 2004
2004 3,167,900 25,000 (59,000) 3,133,900 2005
2005 3,133,900
2003 Budget CHF 2,974,900
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 3,092,180
2002 Expenditure CHF 3,549,4482001 Expenditure CHF 2,628,811
(a) Rental of premises
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 292,400 20,000 312,400 2004
2004 312,400 312,400 2005
2005 312,400
2003 Budget CHF 292,400
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 297,160
2002 Expenditure CHF 229,191
2001 Expenditure CHF 49,485
52. This estimate provides for the rental of storage and parking space.  The increase of
CHF 20,000 is primarily due to rental of storage space for archives and documents.
53. The provision for 2005 remains at the same level as in 2004.
(b) Utilities
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 1,619,500 13,000 1,632,500 2004
2004 1,632,500 16,000 3,000 1,651,500 2005
2005 1,651,500
2003 Budget CHF 1,619,500
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,583,630
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,578,126
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,501,364
54. The estimate covers the cost of electricity, water and heating as well as the cost of contractual
cleaning for the whole of the Centre William Ra ppard (CWR).  The increase of CHF 13,000 over
the 2003 Budget is mainly due to the costs for cleaning and heating.
55. The credit for 2005 shows an increase of CHF 19,000, which is due to anticipated inflation.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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(c) Maintenance and Insurance
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 1,063,000 160,000 1,223,000 2004
2004 1,223,000 9,000 (62,000) 1,170,000 2005
2005 1,170,000
2003 Budget CHF 1,063,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,211,390
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,742,132
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,077,962
56. This provision covers the maintenance of the building, fire equipment, snow removal,
renovations, building insurance, sanitary equipment as well as security measures.  It is proposed that
the credit for 2004 be increased by CHF 160,000.  Unde r the terms of the Headquarters Agreement,
the Swiss authorities provide for basic maintenance while the WTO is responsible for the day-to-day
maintenance work of the CWR.  The net increase is primarily comprised of miscellaneous renovationand alteration required for the premises in the WTO and in the Rue-Rothschild, including masonry,
painting, floor covering replacement, electrical work primarily in connection with a stand-by
emergency generator for the informatics system.
57. The provisions for 2005 shows a decrease of CHF 53,000 compare to 2004, which is mainly
due to the decrease in costs for renovation and alteration of the WTO premises.
Section 5 - Permanent Equipment
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 3,653,600 (36,000) 126,000 (149,250) 3,594,350 2004
2004 3,594,350 6,000 (126,000) 85,500 (374,000) 3,185,850 2005
2005 3,185,850
2003 Budget CHF 3,653,600
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 3,789,590
2002 Expenditure CHF 3,254,866
2001 Expenditure CHF 3,678,215
58. This section covers the cost of permanent equipment items valued at over CHF 5,000 and/or
an expected life-span over five years.  It comprises both purchase and lease costs.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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CHF
2003 2004 2005
Office furniture (including replacements) 326,500 441,000 311,000
Computing and Informatics equipment 1,505,100 1,529,100 1,715,600
Audio visual equipment 255,000 38,000 38,000
Communications equipment 120,000 125,000 91,000
Office photocopiers reproduction machines, and furniture (lease) 55,000 63,000 60,000
Other (including official vehicle, security system, etc.) 80,000 115,250 86,250
Sub-total Purchase 2,341,600 2,311,350 2,301,850
Permanent Equipment (leasing arrangements i.e. Computers,
Reproduction, Security etc.) 1,312,000 1,283,000 884,000
TOTAL 3,653,600 3,594,350 3,185,850
59. For the next two years, a net overall reducti on in the proposed allocation need for permanent
equipment amounts to CHF 467,750.  This reduction is primarily due to permanent equipment
purchased through leasing arrangements, where as leases reach their date of maturity, the allocation isno longer required;  this reduction amounts to CHF 428,000.  Similarly, for the purchase of permanent
equipment, a reduction of CHF 39,750 is also foreseen; this position includes the permanent
equipment required for the 14 and 9.5 new posts requested for 2004 and 2005 respectively.
60. For the years 2004 and 2005, the programme for office furniture includes the replacement and
refurbishment of furniture resulting from normal usag e, as well as for furniture costs for the new
posts.  Computing and informatics needs include (i) the purchase of informatics equipment, hardware,
printers, scanners, CD-ROM readers, and software and computing costs for new staff, and (ii) the
leasing arrangement which is financing the development and implementation of the Performance
Award System
12 as well as software in relation to the decentralized budget and management of trust
fund activities.  Audio visual equipment includes (i) the purchase of Dictaphones (primarily used bytranslators), a digital camera, earphones, digital foot pedals and the upgrade of video editing
hardware, and (ii) the lease for the interpretation system for the new Trade Policy Courses training
rooms.  Communications equipment, covers the purchase of the required capacity extension for the
telephone switchboard, fax machines and portable telephones.
61. The lease for furniture and equipment concerns primarily office photocopiers and
reproduction machines.  Other requirements include the replacement of an official vehicle (primarily
to cater for the movement of staff between the WTO annexe and the Centre William Rappard) and an
emergency back-up generator primarily for the computer system to avoid loss or corruption of data.
                                                     
12 Implementation of the Performance Award System entails the development of an entirely new
computer programme to calculate salaries.  Under the former system, salaries were calculated with reference toa single salary scale and a staff member’s salary corresponded to his/her grade and step.  The new systemawards merit increases depending on the staff member’s evaluation.  These merit increases may be pensionableor non-pensionable, depending on whether the staff member is at the top of the salary range for his/her grade.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Section 6 - Expendable Equipment
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 1,394,670 (4,670) 1,390,000 2004
2004 1,390,000 5,000 35,000 1,430,000 2005
2005 1,430,000
2003 Budget CHF 1,394,670
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,377,400
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,303,197
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,306,440
62. The estimate for expendable equipment covers stationery and other general office supplies,
EDP supplies (toner for printers, spare parts), paper and other supplies for reproduction equipment,
electrical and other tools/supplies for the maintenance of the building, and uniforms for guards and
drivers.  For 2004, it is proposed to decrease the allocation by CHF 4,670 compared to that of
the 2003 Budget.  This is mainly due to decreased needs in terms of reproduction supplies.  Withregard to 2005, the proposed credit shows an increase of CHF 40,000 due mainly to inflation and
anticipated increase in building and EDP supplies.  The proposed allocation can be summarised as
follows:
CHF
Expendable Equipment2004 2005
Office supplies 280,000 293,000
EDP supplies (toner and other various supplies) 163,000 188,000
Reproduction costs (paper and supplies) 720,000 720,000
Building supplies 182,000 188,000
Other supplies 45,000 45,000
TOTAL 1,390,000 1,430,000
Section 7 - Contractual Services
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 3,997,600 (6,000) 14,000 (54,800) 3,950,800 2004
2004 3,950,800 (14,000) 9,500 156,000 4,102,300 2005
2005 4,102,300
2003 Budget CHF 3,997,600
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 3,935,940
2002 Expenditure CHF 3,542,780
2001 Expenditure CHF 3,845,552WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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(a) Reproduction
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 1,430,800 (800) 1,430,000 2004
2004 1,430,000 1,430,000 2005
2005 1,430,000
2003 Budget CHF 1,430,800
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,361,980
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,104,110
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,209,346
63. The estimate for reproduction includes costs related to all the rental of reproduction machines,
and the cost of copies on these machines in th e Documents Reproduction and Distribution Section.
The number of copies is estimated at 115 million pages.  Compared to the 2003 budget, the amount
foreseen for 2004 shows a decrease of CHF 800.  The allocation for 2005 remains at the same level as
in 2004.  The details are as follows:
CHF
Reproduction2004 2005
Cost of copies 250,000 250,000
Rental costs of reproduction equipment 1,150,000 1,150,000
Maintenance 30,000 30,000
Various other costs 0 0
TOTAL 1,430,000 1,430,000
(b) Office Automation/Informatics
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 2,245,800 (6,000) 14,000 2,253,800 2004
2004 2,253,800 (14,000) 9,500 146,000 2,395,300 2005
2005 2,395,300
2003 Budget CHF 2,245,800
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 2,292,6302002 Expenditure CHF 2,192,788
2001 Expenditure CHF 2,443,671
64. The 2004 estimates includes:  (i) credits for computer use at the International Computing
Centre (site maintenance, data storage, line charges and maintenance, data computer centre, dataencryption servers and licenses, etc.), amounting to CHF 1,275,600;  (ii) EDP insurance amounting to
CHF 22,000;  and (iii) costs for EDP maintenance, up-grades, purchase of software and cost of
licences amounting to CHF 956,200.  The increase in the proposed allocation amounting to
CHF 8,000 is primarily the result of the proposal for new posts.
65. The allocation for 2005 shows an overall increas e of CHF141,500.  The estimates include:  (i)
CHF 1,320,600 for the ICC, (ii) EDP insurance of CH F 23,000 and (iii) cost of EDP maintenance of
CHF 1,051,700.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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(c) Other
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 321,000 (54,000) 267,000 2004
2004 267,000 10,000 277,000 2005
2005 277,000
2003 Budget CHF 321,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 281,330
2002 Expenditure CHF 245,882
2001 Expenditure CHF 192,535
66. This estimate covers the maintenance and repair costs of official vehicles, petrol, oil and
related insurance costs, as well as maintenance costs for office equipment.  As the replacement of the
system for simultaneous interpretation in the conference rooms was implemented in 2003, it is
proposed that the 2004 budget be decreased by CHF 54,000.
67. The allocation proposed for 2005 shows an increase of CHF 10,000 related primarily to
anticipated insurance and maintenance costs.
Part C - Other Costs
Other costs cover staff overhead costs (training, in surance and costs related to shared common services),
missions, hospitality, Dispute Settlement Panels, the Permanent Group of Experts, Trade PolicyTraining Courses, public information activities, extern al auditors, contribution to the International Trade
Centre, and unforeseen expenditure.
Section 8 - Staff Overhead Costs
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 2,304,200 659,800 73,500 143,000 3,180,500 2004
2004 3,180,500 13,500 49,900 196,000 3,439,900 2005
2005 3,439,900
2003 Budget CHF 2,304,200
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 2,843,560
2002 Expenditure CHF 2,340,291
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,915,307
(a) Training
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 480,000 40,000 520,000 2004
2004 520,000 190,000 710,000 2005
2005 710,000
2003 Budget CHF 480,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 440,730
2002 Expenditure CHF 479,5492001 Expenditure CHF 402,097WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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68. The proposed provision for training includes the costs of language training courses organized
by the United Nations, training with regard to informatics programmes, and management training for
WTO staff.  The 2004 proposed increase of CHF 40,000 concerns increased needs for informatics
training:  CHF 10,000;  management training:  CH F 15,000;  and language courses:  CHF 15,000.
69. The 2005 proposed increase of CHF 190,000 concerns increased needs for informatics
training:  CHF 60,000;  management training:  CH F 120,000;  and language courses:  CHF10,000.
(b) Insurance
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 1,205,700 674,800 3,500 13,000 1,897,000 2004
2004 1,897,000 83,500 2,400 6,000 1,988,900 2005
2005 1,988,900
2003 Budget CHF 1,205,700
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,599,990
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,195,248
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,064,380
70. This provision covers the costs of third party insurance, insurance covering the Organization's
permanent equipment as well as of insurance provided in the WTO Staff Rule 110.5 in respect of the
Secretariat staff, which concerns compensation for se rvice-incurred illness, injury or death.  It is
primarily increased costs for insurance for service-related illness, injury or death, as stipulated in StaffRegulation 8.2, which accounts for the increase in this credit.
71. Compared to 2004, it is proposed that the 2005 allocation be increased by CHF 91,900,
mainly for anticipated insurance increases.
(c) Joint Services
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 542,000 15,000 90,000 647,000 2004
2004 647,000 647,000 2005
2005 647,000
2003 Budget CHF 542,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 756,590
2002 Expenditure CHF 645,557
2001 Expenditure CHF 397,027
72. This estimate provides for the WTO's share in the running costs of the Administrative
Tribunal of the International Labour Organization, the Consultative Committee on Administrative
Questions, and the Joint Purchasing Unit.  It also covers the costs related to the provision of a medical
service in the WTO.  Compared to the Budget of 2003, there is an increase of CHF 105,000.based on
preliminary indications from the Joint Medical Service.  On moving to establish a WTO Medical
Service, however, it is anticipated that there will be a greater level of cost control and predictability.This development will also imply a redistribution of the allocation, but it is anticipated that total costs
will decrease.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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73. There is as well an increased demand being put on the Medical Service in the WTO as a result
of more staff, Trade Policy Training Courses, a larger proportion of staff in the WTO annexe, and a
higher number of interns. In addition, a doctor is now working on a 50 per cent basis rather than 20
per cent, which was deemed insufficient for the needs of the Organization.
74. The credit for 2005 remains at the same level as in 2004.
(d) Miscellaneous
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 76,500 (30,000) 70,000 116,500 2004
2004 116,500 (70,000) 47,500 94,000 2005
2005 94,000
2003 Budget CHF 76,500
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 46,250
2002 Expenditure CHF 19,937
2001 Expenditure CHF 51,804
75. These estimate covers administrative costs such as those related to the issuance of
laissez-passez  and passports as well as the advertising of vacancy announcements.  The increase in the
proposed allocation is in direct relation to the advertisement costs necessary for the proposed new
posts.
Section 9 – Missions
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 2,564,300 2,564,300 2004
2004 2,564,300 77,000 2,641,300 2005
2005 2,641,300
2003 Budget CHF 2,564,300
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 2,545,750
2002 Expenditure CHF 2,325,4422001 Expenditure CHF 2,139,059
76. It should be mentioned that the overall need for missions, whether they be consultations with
Governments, attending meetings of other international organizations (World Bank, InternationalMonetary Fund, OECD), undertaking consultations with, or providing technical co-operation
assistance to developing countries, continues to increase with the higher visibility and greater interest
in the WTO.  Technical cooperation with least developed and developing countries is covered from
two sources:  (i) the annual WTO budget, as well as (ii) trust funds.  These estimates covers the
payment of travel expenses, subsistence allowances and other incidental expenses.  While no changeis proposed for 2004, official travel is one of the limited number of allocations for which an element
for inflation is being proposed in 2005.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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(a) Official Missions
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 1,181,100 1,181,100 2004
2004 1,181,100 36,000 1,217,100 2005
2005 1,217,100
2003 Budget CHF 1,181,100
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,181,050
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,152,6022001 Expenditure CHF 1,028,206
(b) Technical Co-operation
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 1,383,200 1,383,200 2004
2004 1,383,200 41,000 1,424,200 2005
2005 1,424,200
2003 Budget CHF 1,383,200
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,364,700
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,172,840
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,110,853
Section 10 - Trade Policy Training Courses
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 4,297,500 (416,500) 3,881,000 2004
2004 3,881,000 3,881,000 2005
2005 3,881,000
2003 Budget CHF 4,297,500
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 3,177,140
2002 Expenditure CHF 2,935,7452001 Expenditure CHF 1,362,569
77. This estimate provides for four Regular Trade Policy Training Courses in 2004 and in 2005 in
Geneva.
13  The courses are open to officials from all developing countries, which have, or may have in
the future, responsibilities in the formulation and conduct of foreign trade policy.  The number of
participants in each training course is set at twenty-seven.  In addition, two special courses and two
introduction courses for LDCs, and three courses for Dispute Settlement, are foreseen.  A GenevaWeek is also foreseen for 2004 and 2005.  Compared to the 2003 budget, the provision for 2004 is
decreased by CHF 416,000.  The provision for 2005 remains at the same level as in 2004.
                                                     
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CHF CHF
2004 2005
Cost per
courseTotal Cost per
courseTotal
Four Regular Trade Policy Training Courses
  Lodging 230,000 920,000 230,000 920,000
  Subsistence 230,000 920,000 230,000 920,000
  Travel (to and from Geneva) 75,000 300,000 75,000 300,000
  Miscellaneous 10,000 40,000 10,000 40,000
Two special courses 180,000 360,000 180,000 360,000
Two LDC introduction courses 240,700 481,400 240,700 481,400
Three courses for Dispute Settlement 60,000 180,000 60,000 180,000
Geneva Week 679,600 679,600
TOTAL 3,881,000 3,881,000
Section 11 – Various
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 3,182,400 388,600 3,571,000 2004
2004 3,571,000 47,000 20,000 3,638,000 2005
2005 3,638,000
2003 Budget CHF 3,182,400
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 3,525,330
2002 Expenditure CHF 2,961,6462001 Expenditure CHF 3,488,472
(a) Representation and Hospitality
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 283,000 283,000 2004
2004 283,000 283,000 2005
2005 283,000
2003 Budget CHF 283,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 281,150
2002 Expenditure CHF 249,858
2001 Expenditure CHF 251,516
78. The allocation provides for representation allowances for the Director-General, and the
Deputy Directors-General.  Hospitality expenditure, mainly for working lunches and dinners, is
authorized in advance in each case by, or on behalf of, the Director-General and reimbursement is
made in accordance with WTO rules and procedures.  It is proposed to maintain the 2004 and 2005
provisions at the 2003 level.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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(b) Dispute Settlement Panels
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 1,287,000 1,287,000 2004
2004 1,287,000 29,000 1,316,000 2005
2005 1,316,000
2003 Budget CHF 1,287,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1, 167,690
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,169,5862001 Expenditure CHF 923,366
79. The credit covers the travel fees, per diem allowances and honoraria of panellists serving on
Dispute Settlement Panels.  Based on the present level of activities, it is proposed to maintainthe 2004 at the same level as in 2003, with an increase of CHF 29,000 suggested for 2005 for inflation
related to airfares.
(c) Permanent Group of Expe rts/Arbitration under GATS
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 2004
2004 2005
2005
2003 Budget Nil
2003 Expected Expenditure Nil
2002 Expenditure CHF 12,824
2001 Expenditure Nil
80. Under Article 24 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures which forms
part of Annex 1A of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization,  it was
agreed that a Permanent Group of Experts would be established by the Committee on Subsidies and
Countervailing Measures.  In addition, procedures have been approved by the Council for Trade in
Services (S/C/M/38) for the implementation of Article XXI of the General Agreement on Trade inServices (GATS) which provides for an arbitration process .  No amount is foreseen for 2004
and 2005.
(d) Appellate Body
81. The permanent costs of the Appellate Body and its Secretariat can be found in paragraphs 95
to 115.
(e) Library
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 581,900 27,100 609,000 2004
2004 609,000 18,000 15,000 642,000 2005
2005
2003 Budget CHF 581,900
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 576,970
2002 Expenditure CHF 592,190
2001 Expenditure CHF 565,436WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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82. The estimate provides for the purchase of books, subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers and
documentation on microfiches as well as for the binding costs of reference publications.  The increase
in the 2004 provision of CHF 27,100 compared with 2003 is primarily due to the increasing need for
and costs of subscriptions of periodicals and purchase of books.
83. It is proposed to increase the provision for 2005 by CHF 33,000 which is due to (i) inflation
(CHF 18,000) and (ii) anticipated increased n eeds for books and subscriptions (CHF 15,000).
(f) Publications
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 230,000 55,000 285,000 2004
2004 285,000 285,000 2005
2005 285,000
2003 Budget CHF 230,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 154,9502002 Expenditure CHF 199,076
2001 Expenditure CHF 198,884
84. The estimate provides for the production costs of publications.  Since 1999, the costs charged
to this line of the budget primarily concern publications provided free-of-charge to delegations.  These
costs include printing, artwork and the supply of paper.  Printing firms offering the lowest production
quotes are accepted.  In light of a continuing and growing deficit under the sale of publications under
Miscellaneous Income, which resulted from a widening free distribution of priced publications by
WTO divisions in the course of their official activities, it was decided that henceforth the cost of suchpublications should be included in a budget provision for activities financed from the regular budget
and in specific budget estimates for any activity financed from trust funds. The 2004 provision is
increase by CHF 55,000 compared to that of 2003.  The increase concerns mainly the credit for
publications provided free-of-charge to delegations.
85. The credit for 2005 remains at the same level as that of 2004.
(g) Public Information Activities
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 210,000 210,000 2004
2004 210,000 210,000 2005
2005 210,000
2003 Budget CHF 210,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 162,720
2002 Expenditure CHF 209,2682001 Expenditure CHF 217,772
86. The estimate covers the cost of all WTO promotional activities including the production of a
video presentation on the WTO Doha Development Ag enda Round, the costs related to making copies
of existing videos.  It also covers photo costs rela ted to the public information activities, information
and subscription costs for an ICC news service, the printing costs of information press material,
participation at international book fairs, as well as other miscellaneous costs.  For 2004 and 2005 it is
proposed to keep the same level of funding as in 2003.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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(h) External Auditors
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 50,000 50,000 2004
2004 50,000 50,000 2005
2005 50,000
2003 Budget CHF 50,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 44,630
2002 Expenditure CHF 18,909
2001 Expenditure CHF 70,000
87. The estimate provides for the travel costs and subsistence allowances in respect of the team of
auditors.  The estimate is maintained at the same level of funding for 2004 and 2005, as that of 2003.
(i) Ministerial Conference
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 400,000 300,000 700,000 2004
2004 700,000 700,000 2005
2005 700,000
2003 Budget CHF 400,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,000,000
2002 Expenditure CHF 400,000
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,127,041
88. It will be recalled that funds for previous WTO Ministerial Conferences have been provided
through both the regular budget as well as from extra-budgetary sources.  In 1997, the report of the
Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration (WT/BFA/32, paragraph 9) indicated that "the
Committee might consider [the] financing [ inter alia  of the conferences] through the regular
budget …  However, the financing … should be done  in a way that would avoid important budgetary
fluctuations."  In view of the global significance of WTO Ministerial Conferences, as well as actual
expenditure for the last two Conferences, it is proposed to increase the provision by CHF 300,000 for
the year 2004 (see Introduction, paragraph 11).  As for 2005, it is proposed to keep the same level of
funding as in 2004.
(j) International Organizati on for Standardization (ISO)
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 57,500 (500) 57,000 2004
2004 57,000 57,000 2005
2005 57,000
2003 Budget CHF 57,500
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 57,120
2002 Expenditure CHF 44,148
2001 Expenditure CHF 59,067
89. It will be recalled that the Ministerial Decision adopted by the Trade Negotiations Committee
on 15 December 1993 stipulated that the WTO should reach an understanding with ISO to establish
an information system with regard to notification by standardizing bodies accepting the Code of Good
Practice.  The provision of CHF 57,000 represents the support costs of publishing theWT/BFA/SPEC/100
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ISO/WTO Directory of Standardizing Bodies Accepting the WTO Code of Good Practice,  information
on standardizing bodies accepting the WTO Code in the ISO Bulletin,  and other administrative costs.
(k) Other
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 83,000 7,000 90,000 2004
2004 90,000 5,000 95,000 2005
2005 95,000
2003 Budget CHF 83,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 80,000
2002 Expenditure CHF 65,7882001 Expenditure CHF 75,390
90. Under this provision, an amount of CHF 50,000 is  proposed to cover bank charges and other
incidental charges and CHF 28,000 to cover related fees for the Global Trade Analysis Project
consortium.  In addition, it is proposed to continue a provision of CHF 10,000 for the purpose ofsponsoring individually, or jointly with other institut ions in Geneva, one or two day visits to the WTO
for outside specialists who are either resident in Western Europe or passing through on other business.
It is proposed to increase the allocation by CHF 7,000 for 2004, and CHF5,000 for 2005 which is due
to increased bank charges.
Section 12 - Unforeseen Expenditure
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 100,000 100,000 2004
2004 100,000 100,000 2005
2005 100,000
2003 Budget CHF 100,000
2003 Expected Expenditure Nil
2002 Expenditure CHF 48,000
2001 Expenditure Nil
91. It is proposed to continue the provision for unforeseen expenditure at the level of the 2003
Budget for 2004 and 2005.
Section 13 - Contribution to the ITC
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 15,374,000 751,250 16,125,250 2004
2004 16,125,250 181,200 16,306,450 2005
2005 16,306,450
2003 Budget CHF 15,374,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 15,374,000
2002 Expenditure CHF 14,654,857
2001 Expenditure CHF 13,874,831WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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92. The provision made under this section covers the contribution to the International Trade
Centre UNCTAD/WTO which was established in accordance with a decision taken by the
CONTRACTING PARTIES on 22 November 1967 (SR.24/14) and Resolution 2297 (XXII) adopted
by the United Nations General Assembly on 12 December 1967, effective 1 January 1968, to the
effect that the ITC would be operated jointly by UNCTAD and GATT on a continuing basis and in
equal partnership.  The WTO has since assumed the responsibilities of GATT in this respect(WT/GC/M/3, item 6).
93. New administrative arrangements, based on a decision of the WTO General Council in 1995
(WT/GC/M/3), have now been implemented.  The ITC budget is subject to the same preparation and
reporting procedures as the WTO budget itself.
94. It will be recalled that the Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration examined the
Preliminary Budget Outline for 2004  (ITC/BUD/45) at it's meeting on 14 May 2003 (WT/BFA/65).
The Committee took note of the budget outline at that time.  Details of the ITC budget proposal
for 2004 and 2005 contained in document ITC/BUD/47, will be examined separately in the
Committee.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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DETAILED BUDGET ESTIMATES
Appellate Body and its Secretariat
Permanent Costs14
Part A - Staff
Section 1 - Work/Years
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffConsoli-
dationProposed Budget for
2003 2,192,800 29,500 103,200 2,325,500 2004
2004 2,325,500 48,100 2,379,500 2005
2005 2,379,500
2003 Budget CHF 2,192,800
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 2,142,450
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,983,079
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,954,043
95. The standard costs for staff consists of three elements:  salary, contributions to the
WTO Pension Plan and other common staff costs.  The standard costs used are the same as for the
WTO Secretariat (see paragraphs 35 and 39).  The factors influencing the various elements of salary,
pension fund contributions and common staff costs are the same as described for the WTO
Secretariat.
(a) Salary
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffConsoli-
DationProposed Budget for
2003 1,579,100 29,000 76,800 1,684,900 2004
2004 1,684,900 40,300 1,725,200 2005
2005 1,725,200
2003 Budget CHF 1,579,100
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,597,490
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,405,362
2001 Expenditure CHF 1,130,151
96. The amount foreseen for 2004 shows an increase of CHF 105,800 compared to 2003.  This is
mainly due to statutory factors and consolidation of posts.
97. The credit for 2005 shows an increase of CHF 40,300 over the provision for 2004 due to
statutory factors.
                                                     
14 The presentation of the budget proposals for the Permanent Costs of the Appellate Body and its
Secretariat follows the same outline in terms of Parts and Sections as for the WTO Secretariat.  In certain instances,however, there is no identified cost.  Therefore, mention is made of only those sections under which costs havebeen identified.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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(b) Contribution to th e WTO Pension Plan
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffConsoli-
DationProposed Budget for
2003 314,700 9,000 26,400 350,100 2004
2004 350,100 7,800 357,900 2005
2005 357,900
2003 Budget CHF 314,700
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 308,610
2002 Expenditure CHF 258,889
2001 Expenditure CHF 205,539
98. The amount foreseen for 2004 shows an increase of CHF 35,400 over that of 2003, which is
mainly due to statutory factors as well as to the proposed consolidation of one post.  The amount
proposed for 2005 shows an increase of CHF 7,800.
(c) Common Staff Costs
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 299,000 (8,500) 290,500 2004
2004 290,500 5,900 296,400 2005
2005 296,400
2003 Budget CHF 299,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 236,3502002 Expenditure CHF 318,828
2001 Expenditure CHF 618,353
99. The above estimates represent the costs for the 13 regular positions currently in the Appellate
Body Secretariat.  In comparison with 2003, the overall cost shows a net decrease of CHF 8,500.  The
elements are the same as for the WTO Secretariat (see paragraph 43).
Section 2 - Temporary Assistance
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 36,000 36,000 2004
2004 36,000 36,000 2005
2005 36,000
2003 Budget CHF 36,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 49,910
2002 Expenditure CHF 52,254
2001 Expenditure CHF 123,330
100. It is proposed to maintain the provision for temporary assistance in 2004 and 2005 at the same
level as in 2003, which is used exclusively for to fund interns who provide valuable assistance while
at the same time gaining solid professional experience.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Part B - Administrative Costs
Section 3 – Telecommunications
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 6,500 6,500 2004
2004 6,500 6,500 2005
2005 6,500
2003 Budget CHF 6,500
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 5,6702002 Expenditure CHF 6,712
2001 Expenditure CHF 7,696
101. The provisions for telecommunications costs in 2004 and 2005 remain at the same level as
in 2003.
Section 4 – Building Facilities
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 18,000 18,000 2004
2004 18,000 18,000 2005
2005 18,000
102. The provisions for utility costs in 2004 and 2005 remain at the same level as in 2003.
2003 Budget CHF 18,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 15,000
2002 Expenditure CHF 13,790
2001 Expenditure CHF 14,193
(b) Utilities
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 13,000 13,000 2004
2004 13,000 13,000 2005
2005 13,000
2003 Budget CHF 13,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 10,000
2002 Expenditure CHF 11,000
2001 Expenditure CHF 11,000
103. The provisions for utility costs  for 2004 and 2005 remain at the same level as in 2003.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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(c) Maintenance and Insurance
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 5,000 5,000 2004
2004 5,000 5,000 2005
2005 5,000
2003 Budget CHF 5,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 5,000
2002 Expenditure CHF 2,790
2001 Expenditure CHF 3,193
104. The provisions for maintenance and Insurance costs in 2004 and 2005 remain at the same
level as in 2003.
Section 5  - Permanent Equipment
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 44,000 (21,000) 23,000 2004
2004 23,000 23,000 2005
2005 23,000
2003 Budget CHF 44,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 39,540
2002 Expenditure CHF 26,8712001 Expenditure CHF 59,264
105. The provision covers the supply of office furniture and equipment as well as for EDP
equipment.  Compared to the 2003 budget, a decrease of CHF 21,000 is proposed for 2004.  The
provision foreseen for 2005 remains at the same level of 2004.
Section 6 - Expendable Equipment
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 17,700 2,300 20,000 2004
2004 20,000 20,000 2005
2005 20,000
2003 Budget CHF 17,70 0
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 15,00 0
2002 Expenditure CHF 9,043
2001 Expenditure CHF 14,92 7
106. The provision mainly covers office and reproduction supplies.  It is proposed to increase the
provision for 2004 by CHF 2,300.  The provision foreseen for 2005 remains at the same level asat 2004.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Section 7 - Contractual Services
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 15,000 15,000 2004
2004 15,000 15,000 2005
2005 15,000
2003 Budget CHF 15,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 12,280
2002 Expenditure CHF 17,4142001 Expenditure CHF 15,703
(a) Reproduction
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 15,000 15,000 2004
2004 15,000 15,000 2005
2005 15,000
2003 Budget CHF 15,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 12,000
2002 Expenditure CHF 16,710
2001 Expenditure CHF 13,398
107. It is proposed to keep the provision at the same level of 2003 for 2004 and 2005.
(b) Office Automation/Informatics
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 2004
2004 2005
2005
2003 Budget Nil
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 280
2002 Expenditure Nil
2001 Expenditure CHF 2,305
(c) Others
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 2004
2004 2005
2005
2003 Budget Nil
2003 Expected Expenditure Nil
2002 Expenditure CHF 704
2001 Expenditure NilWT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Part C - Other Costs
Section 8 - Staff Overhead Costs
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 7,000 4,000 25,000 36,000 2004
2004 36,000 5,000 41,000 2005
2005 41,000
2003 Budget CHF 7,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 14,250
2002 Expenditure CHF 8,0062001 Expenditure CHF 52,184
(a) Training
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 25,000 15,000 2004
2004 25,000 5,000 30,000 2005
2005 30,000
2003 Budget Nil
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,020
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,850
2001 Expenditure Nil
108. The provision for 2004 is foreseen at CHF 15,000, which includes the costs of management
training for the staff.  For 2005, it is foreseen that the provision will be increase by CHF 5,000 over
that of 2004.
(b) Insurance
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 5,000 4,000 9,000 2004
2004 9,000 9,000 2005
2005 9,000
2003 Budget CHF 5,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 12,000
2002 Expenditure CHF 4,308
2001 Expenditure CHF 4,187
109. This provision covers the costs of insurance provided in the WTO Staff Rule 110.5 in respect
of the Secretariat staff, which concerns compensation for service-incurred illness, injury or death.  It
is proposed that the provision for 2004 be increased by CHF 4,000, which is due mainly to statutoryfactor.  The provision for 2005 remains at the same level as in 2004.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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(d) Miscellaneous
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 2,000 2,000 2004
2004 2,000 2,000 2005
2005 2,000
2003 Budget CHF 2,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 1,230
2002 Expenditure CHF 1,8472001 Expenditure CHF 47,998
110. It is proposed that the provisions for 2004 and 2005 remains at the same level as in 2003.
Section 9 – Missions
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 10,000 10,000 2004
2004 10,000 10,000 2005
2005 10,000
2003 Budget CHF 10,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 9,680
2002 Expenditure CHF 3,5862001 Expenditure CHF 4,511
111. The proposed credit covers the costs of missions for the staff of the Appellate Body and its
Secretariat in 2004 and 2005 and are maintained at the current level.
Section 12 – Various
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Consoli-
DationOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 624,200 1,800,000 (103,200) 4,800 2,325,800 2004
2004 2,325,800 2,325,800 2005
2005 2,325,800
2003 Budget CHF 624,200
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 625,080
2002 Expenditure CHF 646,183
2001 Expenditure CHF 651,380
(a) Hospitality and Representation
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 1,000 1,000 2004
2004 1,000 1,000 2005
2005 1,000
2003 Budget CHF 1,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 990
2002 Expenditure CHF 362
2001 Expenditure CHF 632WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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112. The proposed credits for 2004 and 2005, which remains at the same level as that of 2003,
cover hospitality which is managed in accordance with WTO rules and procedures.
(d) Appellate Body Members
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 618,200 1,800 620,000 2004
2004 620,000 620,000 2005
2005 620,000
2002 Budget CHF 618,200
2002 Expected Expenditure CHF 618,900
2001 Expenditure CHF 638,8602000 Expenditure CHF 645,278
113. The general conditions of service for Appellate Body Members are set out in the decision of
the Dispute Settlement Body on the Establishment of the Appellate Body (WT/DSB/1) as well as in
the Appellate Body Members' contracts.  Compared to 2003, the credit proposed for 2004 is increasedby CHF 1,800.  The provision for 2005 remains at the same level as in 2004.
(e) Library
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffOther
inc/decProposed Budget for
2003 5,000 3,000 8,000 2004
2004 8,000 8,000 2005
2005 8,000
2003 Budget CHF 5,000
2003 Expected Expenditure CHF 5,190
2002 Expenditure CHF 6,961
2001 Expenditure CHF 5,435
114. The proposed provision covers minor miscellaneous and library expenditure under the
Appellate Body and its Secretariat.  It is propos ed that the credit be increased by CHF 3,000 in 2004.
The credit proposed for 2005 remains at the same level as in 2004.
(l) Appellate Body Operating Fund
Year Budget Inflation Statutory Unavoidable Increase
StaffConsoli-
dationProposed Budget for
2003 1,800,000 (103,200) 1,696,800 2004
2004 1,696,800 1,696,800 2005
2005 1,696,800
115. In view of the fact that no surplus exists in  the 2002 accounts to replenish the Appellate Body
Operating Fund (ABOF), and considering expenditu res in the past years, it is proposed that
replenishments of the ABOF for 2004 and 2005 be financed from the regular budget.  (see paragraph 8
of Introduction)WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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PART IIWT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Note:  The budget tables included are derived from the 2004-2005 budget estimates.
(i) salary costs are based on standard cost.
(ii) apportionment of the allocations for tem porary assistance, ED P projects and missions
will only take place after a review of the needs has been completed.  and
(iii) pending a decision on new posts, the re levant costs are included under the
Condominium Budget.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Senior Management
Staffing
Ungraded 5
Other Staff 6.5
Budget
PART SECTION CHF
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 1,419,100
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services*
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs 2,500
Missions**
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 203,600
 - Other
TOTAL 1,625,200
* Allocation for EDP reserve is managed by the EDP Steering Committee.
** Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Office of the Director-General
Staffing
Director 5
Other Staff 9
Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work years/Salary 1,727,600
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
Other
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 1,728,400
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Accessions Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• Pursue and facilitate the negotiations between WTO Members and states and entities requesting
accession to the WTO by encouraging their integration into the multilateral trading system
through the effective liberalisation of their trade regimes in goods and services;
• Facilitate and accelerate the accession of LDCs fo llowing the guidelines adopted by the General
Council in document WT/L/508;  and
• Act as a focal point in the overall efforts of WTO Members to achieve an open and liberal
multilateral trading system with wider scope and coverage.
Background
There are presently 25 accession working parties in operation, at different stages in the process.  Fourrequests for accession are pending action by the General Council (Afghanistan, Iran, Libya and Syria).
There are indications that some other countries will request accession.
Main Activities
• Facilitation of the work of accession working parties and assistance in bilateral and multilateral
negotiations between WTO Members and acceding governments.
• Technical assistance to all acceding governments at various stages - during the fact finding phase,
in preparing implementing legislation, through to the facilitation of market access negotiations in
goods, agriculture and services.  Technical assistance is provided through the Technical
Assistance Plan as well outside the Plan in response to specific problems posed by acceding
governments.
• The Division also undertakes missions to capitals of acceding governments to accompany
working party chairpersons.  These missions are policy-making rather technical assistance and, as
such, involve high-level meetings with Ministers, Parliament representatives, key government
officials, private industry, consumer groups and media.
Expected Results
• It is expected that 2004 and 2005 will again be busy for Accessions, because a number of
accession negotiation are likely to be concluded.
• Accessions likely to be concluded in 2004 include Samoa (LDC) and Tonga.
• Work on the accessions of the Russian Federation and Saudi Arabia will be intensified and will
require a significant increase in workload for the Division.
• Work will be on-going over 2004 and 2005 for accessions such as Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Lebanese Republic, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam and FR Yugoslavia.
• Work will be intensified for accessions such as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sudan (LDC) who held
their first Working Party meetings in 2003.
• Work on LDC accessions where no Working Party meetings have yet taken place will begin:
Bhutan, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Lao PDR and Yemen.
• As a result the Division expects to schedule around 2-4 working party meetings per month.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded from the regular budget:
All work related to accessions incorporates considerable elements of technical assistance,
both in terms of detailed issues of a technical nature and policy guidance to the accedinggovernments.
- by staff funded from trust funds:
The fast-track Grade 7 position continues to significantly enhance the Division's capacity for
technical assistance.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Accessions Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 7.4
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 1,036,560
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 1,037,360
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Administration And General Services Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• Ensure the efficient functioning of services in (a) all financial matters, including budget preparation
and control, accounting, and payroll, (b) human resources matters, (c) logistical issues related to thephysical facilities, and (d) missions and other travel arrangements.
• Monitor the decentralized budget as well as the Extra-budgetary Funds and provide timely
information to Divisions.
• Ensure the smooth administrative functioning of the Committee on Budget, Finance and
Administration.
• Provide information to the Senior Management to ensure a smooth and efficient functioning of the
Organization.
• Assure administrative and logistical support for the coordination of the national and technical
assistance activities.
Background
The Administration and General Services Division had been restructured in 2001 and is responsible forthe (i) functioning of the services of the Organization in respect of all financial matters, including budgetpreparation and control, accounting, and payroll, (ii) management of the human resources, and
(iii) logistical issues related to the physical facilities, and (iv) missions and other travel arrangements.  It
serves the Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration.  The Division is divided into (i) Budget
and Control Section, (ii) Finance and Accounts Section (iii) Human Resources Section, and
(iv) Infrastructure Section.
Main Activities
• The Division will continue to ensure that expenditure of the WTO Secretariat as well as of the
Appellate Body and its Secretariat is effected in accordance with the budget approved by WTOMembers.
• The Division will carry out and monitor the cash flow of the Organization.  It will record (i) all
the financial proceedings on a daily basis such as receipts of contributions, sales of publications
and souvenirs, (ii) execute the monthly payment of salaries and staff entitlements as well as the
subsistence allowances of staff on missions, and (iii) make payments to suppliers, Appellate
Body, the Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation and Extra-budgetary activities.  In
addition, the Division will replace equipment, furniture as well as general office supplies when
the needs arise in accordance to the approved allocation.  The Centre William Rappard will beinsured and maintained as appropriate throughout the year.
• The Division will manage the human resources of the Organization in compliance with the Staff
Rules and Staff Regulations.  It will (i) fill vacant posts and develop an on-line application system
to facilitate the processing of candidatures, (ii) develop and implement personnel policies, in
particular the Performance Award System (PAS) and the internship programme, (iii) classify
posts in accordance with the classification standards, (iv) organise and implement trainingprogrammes for staff, and (v) administer approximately 600 regular staff and approximately
300 short-term staff on an ongoing basis – contracts, remuneration, career development,WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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entitlements, social security, and cessation of service, and (v) provide counselling to the staff.  It
will also manage the WTO Pension Plan.
• The Division will prepare the Director-General's Budgetary and Financial Report, the Divisional
Report on Objectives and Expenditures and the Report on Extra-budgetary Funds for 2003
and 2004 and will prepare, in 2004, a revision of the Budget Estimates of the second year of the
biennium 2004-5, if necessary.  It will also prepare the Budget Estimates of the biennium 2006-7
in 2005.  It will assist the External Auditors to accomplish their auditing task.
• The Division will issue, on a quarterly basis, the budget status report to all Divisions and provide
clarification upon request from the latter.
• The Division will organise approximately eleven meetings of the Committee on Budget, Finance
and Administration each year, and will prepare the agendas and related documents to be
distributed ten working days prior to the meetings.  Members of the Division will work in close
consultation with the Chairperson on matters concerning the Committee or issues that may arise
and require to be brought to the attention of the Committee.  It will organise working groupswithin the framework of the Co mmittee to deal with specific issues upon requests from the
Committee and/or Senior Management.
• The Division will ensure that Extra-budgetary funds are administered in the same manner as
regular funds.
• The Logistic Unit will coordinate and provide necessary administrative and logistical support for
the national and regional technical assistance activities to be included in the technical assistance
plan for 2004.  Members of the Logistic Unit will carry out the coordination, preparation,execution and follow-up of over 100 regional activities to be conducted for Member and Observer
Countries in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern European Countries, Latin America and South
Pacific region.  The Unit will cooperate with ITTC, Divisions, Sections and staff responsible for
technical assistance as well as with Permanent Missions, Ministries and other Institutions to
provide accurate logistic services.  Based on logistical experience provided and results obtained in
previous years, the Unit will make all necessary efforts to improve, when necessary, the current
services both at internal and external level.
• Within the context of the next Ministerial Conference, the Logistic Unit will continue to
coordinate all the necessary services to be provided to the LDC Officials sponsored conjunctly bythe host country and the WTO Secretariat as well as to consider and work out necessary services
to be provided to the Delegations, Press and NGOs.  The Unit will carry out the preparation, in
coordination with the WTO Task Force team, of the Terms of Reference, which will be improved
and completed with necessary additional services and facilities.  The overall main objective willbe to guarantee better results to all parties involved.
• The Logistic Unit will make the necessary to obtain better conditions of work in two main feels:
consolidation of its staff contracts and reliable and performing informatics equipment.
Expected Results
• The cash flow of the organisation will be ensured:
• Monthly payments of salary and other staff entitlements will be effected for some 600 regular
and 300 temporary staff members of the organization.
• Pension and medical insurance contributions will be collected and processed for the WTO
Pension Plan and J. Van Breda & Co. International, respectively.
• Financial matters relating to missions (financed from regular budget or trust funds), such as
the processing of the PT8s and travel claims will be managed.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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• Assessed contributions from Member countries to the WTO operating budget as well as to the
Working Capital Fund will be received and processed.  Assessed contributions from Observer
countries in respect of the services received from the Secretariat will be received and
processed.
• Extra-budgetary Funds will be processed.
• Receipt of sales of publications and souvenirs will be processed.
• The decentralized WTO regular budget and Extra-budgetary Funds will be managed and
monitored:
• The divisional budgets will be prepared on a quarterly basis and notified to all Divisions, with
clarifications being provided upon request.
• The Centre William Rappard will be insured and maintained as appropriate and equipment,
furniture as well as general office supplies will be bought and replaced according to the
approved allocation.
• Expenditures on Extra-budgetary Funds projects will be authorised and monitored.
• The Director-General's Budgetary and Financia l Report, the Divisional Report on Objectives
and Expenditures and the Report on Extra-budgetary Funds for 2003 and 2004 will be
prepared and assistance will be provided to the External Auditors as required.
• An examination of the Budget Estimates of the second year of the biennium 2004-5 will be
undertaken in 2004 and the Budget Estimates for the next biennium 2006-7 will be prepared
in 2005.
• The human resources will be managed in accordance with the Staff Rules and Staff Regulations:
• The PAS will continue to be implemented as well as the internship programme.
• Some 20 external vacancies and 5 internal vacancies will be filled each year.  Staff will be
given advice on problems related to work and to life in Geneva.
• Policies addressing the principal needs of the Organization will be developed.
• Meetings of the Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration will be organized and related
documents and reports prepared.
• The Logistic Unit will expect better cooperation and understanding from ITTC, Divisions,
Sections and staff responsible for national and regional technical assistance activities.  The Unitwill also expect that administrative timeframe procedures and rules, which permit the good
coordination, preparation, execution and follow-up of the activities, will be taken into dueconsideration and will be respected carefully by all the colleagues.  If such would be the case, the
proposed objectives could be reached in a satisfactory manner.  The Unit will also expect good
cooperation, understanding and necessary discipline from the outside parties who directly benefit
from the technical assistance activities.
• The Logistic Unit will also expect a good and prompt understanding, management, follow-up and
results from the Administration to obtain better conditions of work mentioned in the Logistic Unit
objectives.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded by regular budget:  13,044
- by staff funded by trust fund:  15,060WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Administration and General Services Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 97.6
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 12,167,240
Temporary Assistance 2,076,400
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
 - Training 520,000
 - Joint Services 15,000
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 1,200
 - Other
TOTAL 14,779,840
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Condominium Costs
Condominium costs relate to (i) expenditure for the WTO as a whole;  (ii) costs which are not readily
identifiable according to division;  and (iii) costs which will be apportioned at a later stage.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Condominium Costs
Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 28,810,500
Temporary Assistance* 1,732,750
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTSCommunication
Building facilities2,335,000
3,167,900
Permanent Equipment 1,197,250
Expendable Equipment 587,000
Contractual Services
 - Reproduction 75,000
 - Office Automation
 - Other 267,000
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff overheads
 - Insurance 1,897,000
 - Joint Services 619,000
 - Miscellaneous 114,000
Missions*
 - Official 1,181,100
 - Technical Co-operation 1,198,200
Trade Policy Training Cources 679,600
- Representation and Hospitality 26,200
Various
 - External Auditors 50,000
 - Priced Publications 63,000
 - Ministerial Operating Fund 700,000
 - Other 62,000
Unforeseen Expenditure 100,000
Contribution to ITC 16,125,250
TOTAL 60,987,750
* To be subsequently apportioned among divisions.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Agriculture and Commodities Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
The overall objective of the Agriculture and Commodities Division is to assist Members in
implementing WTO rules and commitments relating to trade in agriculture and food products and in the
ongoing negotiations on agriculture.  More specifically, the Division will:
• Provide effective assistance, as required, in all matters related to the negotiations on agriculture
under the Doha Development Agenda.
• Support the smooth implementation of existing WTO rules and commitments on agriculture under
the Agreement on Agriculture and ensure that th e work of the Committee on Agriculture in all
areas, including in particular the process of multilaterally reviewing these commitments, isorganized and conducted in an efficient manner.
• Actively contribute to the effective implementation of the Agreement on the Application of
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, including in particular by addressing the difficulties faced by
developing countries.
• Support, as required, the implementation of the Decision on Measures Concerning the Possible
Negative Effects of the Reform Programme on Least-Developed and Net Food-Importing
Developing Countries (NFIDC Decision).
• Provide effective and efficient services for dispute settlement in the areas of agriculture and SPS.
• Provide technical assistance and co-operation with regard to all matters under the Division's
purview.
• Support senior management and other Divisions in matters related to trade in agriculture, forestry
and fishery products as well as on SPS matters.
• Co-operate or liaise, as appropriate, with relevant international organisations, non-governmental
organisations and other private sector representatives.
Background
The Agriculture and Commodities Division is responsible for discharging the Secretariat tasks relatedto the current negotiations on agriculture and th e implementation of existing rules and commitments
in the areas of agriculture, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and trade in fishery and forestry
products.
The negotiations on agriculture have been mainly conducted in the framework of formal and informal
meetings of the Special Session of the Committee on Agriculture and related consultations in a variety
of formats.  The direction of work over the next year will depend, inter alia , on the outcome of the
meeting of the General Council that is to take place by 15 December.  With the establishment of a
framework for modalities for the further commitments  being the next step to be achieved, intensive
negotiations will be needed subsequently to reach consensus on the figures for reductions in support
and protection and to finalize the negotiations on rules-related elements.  The Division will
administratively, organizationally and substantively assist, as necessary, participants and the Chair inall that work and also support, at the appropriate time and as required, participants in the preparation
of their draft schedules of concessions.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Implementation of the Agreement on Agriculture and the NFIDC Decision are overseen by the regular
meetings of the Committee on Agriculture.  In 2004, the Committee will meet at least three times to
review issues raised by Members and the notifications supplied by them on their commitments
relating to tariff quotas, domestic support, export subsidies and export restrictions.  In addition,
notifications are made relating to the levels of food aid Members' provide.  The Division is frequently
asked to assist Members in the preparation of these notifications and all drafts received are carefullyreviewed and finalized before circulation.  Over 160 notifications were received in the year to
1 September 2003.  In addition, the Division prep ares notes, background papers and other documents
related to the work of the Committee as required.
The SPS Committee normally meets three times a year to oversee the implementation of the SPS
Agreement and to give Members an opportunity to discuss SPS-related measures and activities.  In
addition to formal meetings, the Division also organizes workshops and special meetings focused on
the specific provisions of the Agreement which are of greatest concern to developing countryMembers.  The Committee has been a very effective forum for discussion, has considerably improved
the understanding of the Agreement among Members and observer countries, and has helped avert a
number of disputes.  About 715 notifications of new or revised regulations were circulated in the year
to 1 September 2003.  The Division is often consulted by Members in the preparation of these
notifications, and carefully reviews each notification before finalizing it for circulation.
The Division is also involved in disputes alleging violation of the Agreement on Agriculture or the
SPS Agreement, either providing the secretary for the dispute settlement panel or providing expertise
to the substantive discussions of the panel.  There are currently five disputes involving the Division:
• European Communities:  Export subsidies on sugar brought by Australia (DS265), Brazil
(DS266) and Thailand (DS283);
• United States:  Subsidies on upland cotton brought by Brazil (DS267);
• Australia:  Measures affecting the import of fresh fruit and vegetables brought by the
Philippines (DS270);
• Australia:  Quarantine regime for imports brought by the EC (DS287);  and
• European Communities:  Measures affecting the approval and marketing of biotech
products brought by Canada (DS292), the Un ited States (DS291) and Argentina (DS293).
Disputes involving agricultural products tend to be  complex and politically sensitive.  In addition,
disputes under the SPS Agreement require the identification and involvement of scientific experts to
advise the Panel.  Panel reports are invariably appealed and recourse to Articles 21:5 and 22:6 of the
DSU have also been common.  Panels and arbitration are, therefore, particularly time-consuming andthe Division must allocate sufficient resources.
An increase in dispute settlement activity in 2004 is expected, particularly if there is insufficient
progress in the agriculture negotiations.  Also, the new disputes in the SPS area are particularly
complex and sensitive.  Therefore, the Division will need to allocate additional resources to this area.
Technical co-operation is another important element of the Division's overall activities.  Technical
and policy advice is given to Members and acceding countries on the wide range of issues covered by
the SPS Agreement and the Agreement on Agriculture and related commitments.  In the SPS area,
developing countries are, in particular, facing difficulties with the technical requirements underlying
the SPS Agreement.  In agriculture, a major part of the technical assistance activities relates to the
ongoing negotiations, and as noted above, once a modalities for the further commitments areestablished, many participants can be expected to seek assistance in the preparation of their schedules.
In both areas, the demand for assistance from Members has grown rapidly in recent years, and further
growth in demand in expected in 2004-2005.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Main Activities
• The Division will support, in close co-operation with the Chairperson, the agriculture negotiations
by servicing the Special Session and other formats for negotiations.  This activity will include
taking care of all administrative and organizational aspects of formal and informal meetings and
consultations, technical and other advice to the Chair, advice and assistance to participants,
including through background papers, assistance in the preparation of draft proposals, the
preparation of summary reports and briefing notes, and other tasks as required.
• The Division will service, in close co-operation with the Chairperson, annually at least three
regular meetings of the Committee on Agriculture as well as informal meetings of the Committee
and informal consultations among Members.  It will ensure that the broad range of notifications
required by the Committee and submitted by Members can be reviewed in an operationally
effective manner.  The Division will assist the Committee and individual Members in
systematically and substantially addressing the general and specific implementation issues that are
likely to continue to emerge from the Committee's review process.  The Division will provide anydocumentation, background papers or other support requested by Members.
• The Division will provide appropriate support for monitoring the implementation of the SPS
Agreement and assist the SPS Committee and its Chairperson in addressing generic, technical and
other implementation matters as they arise.  It will provide all services required for the
organisation of three to four regular meetings of the Committee plus the informal meetings and
consultations.  In this context, the Division will produce notes, draft guidelines, draft decisions,summary reports, etc, as required.  The Division will assist, as necessary, in addressing the
various implementation concerns raised by developing country Members.
• As in the past, the Division will provide the Secretary and/or expert advice to Panels established
to examine disputes involving the Agriculture and SPS Agreements.  As noted above, severalpanels are already under way and there is likely to be a further increase in the number of panels
in 2004 in both the SPS and agriculture areas.  Th e level of resources devoted to this activity will
have to be increased accordingly.
• Technical assistance will be provided (i) on an almost daily basis at headquarters to Geneva-based
delegations and visitors, (ii) by way of telecommunication with capital-based officials, and
(iii) through missions to capitals and elsewhere (national and regional seminars, workshops, etc.,
including in co-operation with other international organizations).  While there is a growing
demand for the Division to be involved in technica l assistance, the Division's ability to participate
in missions will be subject to the workload rela ted to servicing the negotiations, the regular
meetings of the Committees and disputes.
• Information and advice in the areas of fisheries, forestry, tropical products and other
natural-resource based products will be provided, as required, to Members, acceding countries,other relevant international organizations and the private sector.
• With respect to all matters for which the Division is responsible, the work programme will
include technical, legal and policy advice to senior management of the Secretariat and substantive
inputs into the work of other Divisions, as well as liaison and co-operation, as appropriate, with
other international organizations and the private sector, including through participation in
meetings and conferences, lecturing, commenting on external papers, discussions with visitors,
and telecommunications.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Expected Results
• To the extent that the negotiating environment pe rmits and within the limits of the responsibilities
of the Division, the successful conclusion of the agriculture negotiations.  This will not onlyadvance reform in trade-related agriculture policies but contribute to the Doha Development
Agenda more generally as well as to enhancing confidence in the WTO system.
• Continuing the smooth implementation of the Agri culture and SPS Agreements, including by way
of assisting Members in exercising their rights and discharging their obligations and by helping to
ensure that the Committee on Agriculture and the SPS Committee conduct their regular work in abusiness-like, effective manner.
• Orderly resolution of agriculture-related trade disputes.
• A greater practical understanding of the WTO system as it relates to agriculture.  This will, among
other things, help Members to better use the opportunities for economic development created
through the Agreement on Agriculture and the SPS Agreement.
• A better appreciation of the benefits of agriculture trade reform.  This will also be achieved
through technical assistance to Members and acceding countries as well as our contacts and
cooperation with other international intergovernmental organizations, NGOs and the privatesector.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities in the Division, as a percentage
of the Division's time:
- by staff funded from the regular budget:  25%
- by staff funded from trust funds:  10%WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Agriculture and Commodities Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 15
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 1,974,400
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 1,975,200
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Council and TNC Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• To ensure efficient management of all meetings (regular, informal or special sessions, plus all
associated consultations) of the General Council, the Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC), and the
Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), including all tasks related to the preparation and conduct of such
meetings and coordination of follow-up activities.
• To ensure smooth running and timely completion of substantive preparations for the next Session of
the Ministerial Conference;  organize and run both the formal and working sessions at the Conference;
and co-ordinate Secretariat follow-up work stemming from decisions taken at the Conference.
• To provide a high level of advice and support to the Director-General and the Chairpersons of the
4 WTO bodies above (and other members of senior management) in connection with their
responsibilities in these areas, including organizing and servicing consultation processes undertaken by
them.
Background
The Division was formed on 1 January 2002 by merging the existing Ministerial Sessions and GeneralCouncil Divisions, with a view to achieving cost and efficiency savings by combining the related
functions of servicing the newly-established TNC and the General Council.  The Division also has the
responsibility of servicing the Ministerial Conference and the DSB, including servicing (in conjunctionwith the Legal Affairs Division) the negotiations taking place in Special Sessions of the DSB.
Throughout 2003, the Division has had a continuous and increasing workload involving a large number
of meetings at both formal and informal levels and consultations, and providing support to the
Chairpersons of the bodies it services as well as to the Director-General and senior management.  This
increasing workload is due not only to the creation of the TNC, but also to the growing volume of dispute
settlement cases requiring more frequent meetings of the DSB.  Another major factor is the clear long-
term trend of increased informal consultative processes, responding to Members' calls for greatertransparency and inclusiveness in the WTO's work, particularly at the level of the General Council and
TNC.
Many of the Division's main tasks in 2003 were geared towards preparations for the Fifth Ministerial
Conference at Cancún in September 2003 -- at the level of both the General Council and the Trade
Negotiations Committee -- and ensuring the smooth running of the formal and working sessions of theConference and facilitating efforts to produce a successful outcome.  The Division has a substantial
commitment to assisting the General Council Chairman and the Director-General in carrying out the
work they were mandated to do by Ministers with the aim of putting the negotiations back on track by
15 December 2003.
It is more difficult to forecast at this stage what the 2004 and 2005 level of activity will be in and around
the TNC, and in the activities of the General Council in connection with the Doha work programme.
However, since Ministers at Cancún reaffirmed all their Doha commitments – which include the
timetable for the Round – it is safe to assume that there will be continuing heavy demands on the Division
in relation to consultative processes and meetings in connection with the Doha agenda during 2004.
Furthermore, although the timing of the Sixth Session of the Ministerial Conference is undetermined asyet, under the WTO rules it should take place no later than September 2005.  It could of course take place
earlier than this.  It would in any case be imprudent to assume that preparation for this event will not have
to begin in 2004, and as in the past this process will represent a major commitment for the Division.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Main Activities
• Servicing an increasing number of meetings of the WTO bodies for which the Division is
responsible, including all tasks related to the preparation, conduct and follow up of these meetings.
• Providing close support for the consultative activities of the Chairman of the General Council in his
activities on issues under consideration in that body.
• Providing close support to the Director-General in his work as Chairman of the TNC.
• Servicing the preparatory process for the Ministerial Conference.
• Organizing and servicing the formal and working sessions at the Conference, as well as any
consultative processes which may be necessary.
• Co-ordinating Secretariat follow-up of decisions and work programmes from the Conference,
including assisting the Chairman of the General Council and the Director-General in carrying out
work mandated by Ministers.
• Maintaining frequent contact with delegations on all issues within the purview of the bodies for
which the Division is responsible.
• Responding to requests for briefings, information, advice and assistance on technical, substantive
and procedural matters from delegations, other government officials, Secretariat staff and the
public at large.
• Maintaining the Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Governmental Panelists for the DSB.
• Assembling the annual volumes of the Basic Instruments and Selected Documents (BISD).
Expected Results
• Efficient functioning of the General Council, the TNC, and the DSB.
• Efficient and timely management of the preparations for and conduct of the substantive business of
the next Session of the Ministerial Conference.
• Preparation of all issues to be placed before Ministers, such as to facilitate effective decision-making.
• Expeditious co-ordination of Secretariat follow-up of decisions and work programmes from the
Conference.
• Provision of appropriate advice and support to the Director-General and the Chairpersons of the
4 WTO bodies serviced by the Division (and other members of senior management) in connection
with their responsibilities in these areas.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded from the regular budget: 250
- by staff funded from trust funds: 0.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Council and TNC Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 10,5
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 1,419,100
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 1,419,900
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Development
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• To carry out work on the Doha Development Agenda and maintain the continuation of development-
related activities falling under the responsibility of the Development Division;  and to ensure that theregular work on development-related activities within the framework of the WTO is carried out in
accordance with the mandate given by the Members.
• The Division houses the LDC Unit which is the focal point for all LDC issues within the WTO
Secretariat.  From this function derives the Division's objective to address any policy matter of
interest to LDCs  falling within the scope of the WTO.
Background
The Doha Ministerial Declaration places considerable emphasis on the development dimension ofinternational trade relations, in order to ensure that the needs and interests of developing countries are
recognized and addressed within the multilateral trading system.  An important aspect of work in this areais to facilitate that appropriate dialogue take place on all aspects of the development dimension, thereby
ensuring that the needs and priorities of developing and least-developed countries receive adequate
attention.  In addition, the LDC Unit serves as the Secretariat of the Integrated Framework for Least-
Developed Countries (IF).  IF community consists of six multilateral organizations, the LDCs and the
donor community.  This function alone generates a considerable workload which is increasing as thenumber of functions and countries under the scope of the IF are increasing.  Developmental issues being
horizontal in nature, a good deal of the development-related work also takes place through the work
programmes carried out by other WTO bodies.  At the same time, the Development Division constitutes
the focal point for development policy matters within the WTO, and is entrusted with a number of
specific responsibilities, detailed in the next section.  This work will increase substantially as we movecloser to the completion of the Doha Round of negotiations.
Main Activities
• The Division is responsible for servicing the following bodies:
• Committee on Trade and Development (CTD).
• Special Session of the Committee on Trade and Development.
• Dedicated Session of the Committee on Trade and Development.
• Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology.
• Sub-Committee on LDCs.
• Integrated Framework Working Group (IFWG)
• Integrated Framework Steering Committee (IFSC).
• Other ad-hoc bodies such as the LDCs' Consultative Group and the African Group.
• The CTD is the oversight body on development-related policy matters, including technical assistance
and training activities.  It also receives reports from the Sub-Committee on Least-Developed
Countries.  The Special Session deals with special and differential treatment questions arising fromthe implementation mandate and the Doha Declaration, and reports on different aspects of its work to
the General Council and to the Trade Negotiations Committee.  The Dedicated Session addresses the
Doha-mandated work programme on small economies and reports to the General Council.  The
Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology carries out the work programme on technology
transfer agreed to in Doha.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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• The Sub-Committee on LDCs is the WTO body that gives particular attention to the special and
specific problems of LDCs.  In the context of the Doha Development Agenda, the Sub-Committee is
overseeing the implementation of the WTO Work Programme for LDCs.  Special Seminars are also
organised for the LDCs from time to time.  The Integrated Framework for LDCs is an international
initiative through which the IMF, ITC, UNCTAD, UNDP, the World Bank and the WTO combine
their efforts with those of least-developed countries and donors to respond to the trade
development needs of LDCs.  The Integrated Framework Working Group (IFWG) is responsiblefor the overall management of the IF, including monitoring and evaluation of field resources and
oversight of the IF Trust Fund.  The Working Group consists of representatives of the six
multilateral organizations, and two representatives each from LDCs and donor countries, selected
on a rotating basis.  The IFWG is chaired by the WTO.  The Integrated Framework Steering
Committee (IFSC) oversees the work of the IFWG and provides policy direction, assesses
progress and ensures total transparency in the IF process.  The IFSC is a tripartite arrangement
with representation from the six multilateral organizations, donors and LDCs.  All WTO Membersand Observers can participate in the IFSC.
• In the context of the IF, servicing the IFSC and the IFWG includes all the normal secretariat
functions related to the activities and deliberations of the IFSC and the IFWG.  Additionally the
IF Secretariat is responsible for record keeping and report presentation.  An added and critical
function is a communication function aimed at keeping the IF community apprised of
developments and activities.
• The Division maintains contact with non-reside nts and organises the "Geneva-week" for such
delegations.
• Servicing the above bodies includes the provision of background documents, minutes and regular
reports of activities.  Seminars are also organized under the auspices of the CTD and other bodies, on
trade and development-related matters.
• The Division reports to and briefs senior management on issues within its responsibilities as they
arise or on request.  Staff of the Division are often called on to provide advice to staff of missions to
the WTO as well as official visitors from capitals on issues within the responsibility of the Division.
• Staff of the Division are often required to represent the WTO at meetings of other inter-governmental
organizations, including United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD),regional commissions of the United Nations, Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), the World Bank, regional banks, etc.  on trade and development issues.
Staff are also required to carry out technical cooperation missions on trade and development
issues and to lecture to WTO training courses.  The LDC Unit also participates in IF relatedmeetings upon invitation from LDCs, donors or other agencies.
Expected results
• The work of the Division is expected to advance the Doha Development Agenda in areas relating to
development, both in terms of negotiations and other aspects of the work programme.
• The work of the Division should also contribute to a deeper understanding of trade and
development linkages, helping to strengthen the development impact of the WTO agreements, andto assist developing countries to integrate more fully into the WTO system.
• The Division's work should promote a fuller understanding of trade issues, especially in relation
to development, thereby contributing to the qua lity of debate and negotiations and to the
fulfilment of the objectives of the WTO.
• In its function as focal point for all issues of in terest to the LDCs, the LDC unit will contribute to
achieving the above results focusing specifically on the least-developed countries.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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• As IF Secretariat, the LDC Unit will continue to play the central and coordinating role within the
IF community and for all IF related activities.  Wi th the increase in exposure and interest in the
IF, it is anticipated that the work and possibly the scope of the IF Secretariat will continue to
increase in the future.  The IF is currently being evaluated.  Expected results will to some extent
depend on the outcome of the evaluation.
• The work of the Division is also expected to help in concluding the work being carried out under the
Doha Development Agenda in relation to development issues.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded from the regular budget:  500 hours
- by staff funded from trust funds:  3,000 hours.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Development
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 6.5
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 925,500
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 926,300
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Economic Research And Statistics
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
Research functions
• To ensure the quality and relevance of background research and analysis on development-related and
other relevant issues aimed at advancing the work of the Organization, including in support of the work
of other Divisions;
• To continue to develop the Division's published output, with particular emphasis on maintaining and
improving the quality of the WTO Secretariat's new flagship publication, the World Trade Report,
together with the Working Paper, Discussion Paper and Special Study series;
• To deepen research contacts and partnerships with the academic community, particularly in developing
countries, as part of the Secretariat's capacity-building efforts;
Statistics functions
• To improve the coherence, analytical value, coverage and accessibility of statistics compiled and
disseminated by WTO;
• To improve the availability, coverage, comparability and complementarities of statistics compiled and
collected at national and international levels, through, inter alia , promotion of co-operation and work
sharing among international organizations;
Library services
• To secure access to the Library's database and related web pages through the Internet, with special
attention to the needs of academics and developing country Members, through providing access to
the general catalogue, bibliographies, pertinent links and free electronic publications (contingent on
a budgetary provision);
• To improve access to the collections through enhanced bibliographic records;  develop new
collections;
• To develop bibliographies and Internet links relevant to the current needs of the Organization;
• To continue to provide in-depth information and documentation in an efficient and timely way to
the Secretariat, the Member countries, academics and the public at large;  follow closely the
ongoing substantive work of WTO staff in order to respond more specifically to their immediate
requirements.
Background
Research Functions
The research functions of the Division are focused in the first instance on development-related questions.
The purpose of this support work, whether in terms of the Division's own work programme, requests
from delegations, or the needs of WTO bodies, is to provide necessary background information andanalysis.  The emphasis is on elucidation, not advocacy.  This work seeks to deepen understanding of
issues, to enrich debate and contribute to a better informed perspective from which Members may discuss
and negotiate on matters of importance in the development domain.  In addition to development-related
research and analysis, the Division covers broader aspects of analytical work focusing on economic
questions relevant to all aspects of the WTO's mandate.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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The division has also become increasingly engaged in capacity-building activities through forging links
with the academic community in developing countries, aimed at supporting research, undertaking joint
research and facilitating access to information and data resources for research activities.
Statistics Functions
Under the supervision of the Chief Statistician, the statistical functions of the Division are performed
by three sections – the International Trade Statistics (ITS) Section, the Integrated Data Base (IDB)
Section;  and the Systems Development and Production (SDP) Section.  The ITS Section collects,
collates and completes merchandise and services trade statistical series.  The IDB Section manages
data bases containing trade and trade policy data.  The SDP Section undertakes systems development
and statistical information production services.
Library Services
The WTO Library is the institutional memory of the GATT/WTO and provides the WTO Secretariat,
Government representatives, academics, students, and the public at large with timely information in the
area of international economics and international trade law, and on WTO-related emerging issues.  The
Library has three sections:  the Main Library, the Statistical Library and the Archives dating back
to 1946.  The Library receives 8000 visitors a year and numerous external requests from other librariesand academic researchers.
Main Activities
The three core areas of activity of the Division – research, statistics and library – are related areas
providing services to the rest of the Secretariat, delegations and the broader public.  Only someaspects of the Division's work can be planned forwar d with precision.  Other aspects of the Division's
work are inevitably unforeseen, given the shifting and unexpected needs of various parties served by
the Division.  The staff of the Division comprises over 50 regular and temporary staff, supported by a
significant intern community.  The numerical strength of the Division is generally sufficient to meet
the Division's regular responsibilities.  From time to time, however, ad hoc  requests for services or
support will put some strain on the Division's work, leading to extra working hours.
Research Functions
• Staff of the Division provide analytical support to WTO bodies upon request.  The demand for such
support varies with the activities of other Divisions and cannot always be foreseen.  The Division has
been active recently in supporting negotiations on non-agricultural market access and in providingeconomic analysis in dispute settlement cases.
• The Division regularly briefs senior management upon request on economic and trade policy
developments.  Inputs are usually geared to specific activities (mostly travel-related) of senior
management.  Members of the Division are also called upon to provide advice and information to
staff of diplomatic missions to the WTO as well as official visitors from capitals.
• Staff of the Division are often required to represent the WTO at meetings of other inter-governmental
organizations, including United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD),
regional commissions of the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), the World Bank, regional banks, etc.  on trade policy issues.:
• Staff also represent the WTO at international conferences, seminars and workshops on issues related
to trade and the WTO.  These may be seen as outreach activities to help explain the nature of WTOwork and processes, intended to develop support for the WTO's objectives among academics,
business and other sections of civil society.  Participation in such meetings may also provide
information which helps the substantive work of the Division.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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• Staff are required to carry out technical cooperat ion missions as part of the technical assistance
activities of the Secretariat.  With increased emphasis on capacity-building, the Division takes a
leadership role, in close cooperation with the Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation, in
establishing partnerships with academics (especially from developing countries).  These
partnerships seek to support research by disseminating information and research resources, and
also undertake joint research projects with institutions and academics from developing countries.
• The Division maintains contacts on research-related activities with other organizations and the
academic community more generally.  In this respect, particular efforts are being made to forge
partnerships with the academic community in developing countries in order to enhance the capacity
of Members to identify and defend their national interests more effectively in the WTO.
• The Division is responsible for producing the World Trade Report, which is the Secretariat's
flagship publication.  The Division also maintains a Discussion Paper series, a Special Studiesseries and an electronic Working Paper series.  Discussion Papers are short studies on topical
trade policy issues.  Special Studies are longer in-depth studies and the Working Paper seriesrepresents work-in-progress.  Members of the division are responsible for a large proportion of the
output in these series, but also manages them for other authors inside and outside the Secretariat
who may wish to contribute.
Statistics Functions
• Statistics staff compile data on trade in goods and services for WTO publications, Members, the
WTO Secretariat, and the general public at large.
• Staff also operate the Integrated Database (IDB), and the Consolidated Tariff Schedules (CTS)
database to support tariff negotiations and regular trade policy work.  This includes the processing
of submissions, updating the CTS database, developing the link between CTS and IDB, ensuring
the effective functioning of the software infrastructure, and developing analytical tools for
Members such as the IDB/CTS Internet File Transfer Facility, the IDB Internet Analysis Facility,
and the IDB CD-ROM.
• Staff provides support and technical advice to Members in the area of trade and tariffs, including
tariff simulations.  In close cooperation with the research staff, statistical staff support the work of
the Negotiating Group on Non-Agricultural Mark et Access (NAMA).  They also support the
Committee on Market Access and other Committees as required.
• Staff assist WTO Members in complying with ID B notification requirements and improving their
capacity to exploit IDB/CTS information, as required in the context of ongoing negotiations andfor the formulation of their trade policy, thr ough technical assistance in Geneva and in the
capitals.
• Staff co-operate with other institutions to improve the quality, coverage, and comparability of
statistics on international trade in goods, services and tariffs.  These functions are partly metthrough the Inter-Agency Task Force on International Trade Statistics  (convened by WTO) and
the Inter-Agency Task Force of Statistics on International Trade in Services .
• Staff participate actively in major international st atistical meetings and related collaborative work,
such as the United Nations Statistical Commission and the Inter-Agency Co-ordinating
Committee on Statistical Activities.
• Staff also collaborate with other international ag encies and represent the WTO as the lead agency
for the compilation of trade indicators for the UN project on the Millennium Development Goals.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Library Services
• Staff service the needs of clients (the Economic Research and Statistics Division and other divisions,
delegations, researchers and the public at large) through the preparation of bibliographies, researchand analysis of information on different web sites of relevance to the WTO, and training for users on
the online public access catalogue etc.
• Staff purchase books and subscribe to periodicals, statistics, grey literature, documents, and
electronic sources as well as other specialized information needed by the Secretariat for its work.
This requires close knowledge of current and emerging issues in the WTO.
• Staff provide clients specialized in-depth information and documentation on request, including
assistance in the search for information inside or outside the WTO (other libraries, Internet, on-linedata bases, etc.).
Expected results
Research Function
• The work of the Division may be expected to advance the Doha Development Agenda in areas where
background analysis and research are called for, both in terms of negotiations and other aspects of the
work programme.
• The work of the Division should also contribute to a deeper understanding of trade, growth and
development linkages, helping to strengthen the effectiveness of the WTO as an institution.
Analytical support work should also promote a fuller understanding of trade issues, especially in
relation to development, thereby contributing to the quality of debate and negotiations.
• Similarly, the Division's outreach activities on the research side should assist in improving
understanding of the WTO, and of its objectives, priorities and activities, both among the
membership and the public at large.
Statistics Function
• Specific actions are being undertaken with a review to reducing duplication and promoting
coherence of statistics disseminated by different WTO Divisions.
• Detailed statistical country profiles are being developed for internal use (Intranet).  Improved
coverage, presentation, and accessibility to core WTO statistics will also be attained through the
development of a new web platform.  The negotiations database to support tariff negotiations on
goods is also being further developed.
• Additional analytical facilities for the IDB/CTS, such as portable and multi-language versions of
the Internet Analysis Facility and additional reports and features are being developed.  EnhancedIDB coverage and the establishment of the IDB/CTS link at the tariff line level will also lead to
better levels of service.
• Staff will continue to provide timely, relevant, and quality statistics for WTO publications such as
the World Trade Report and the International Trade Statistics Report, and for the assessment ofWTO Members' contributions to the WTO budget.
• A common basis is being developed for storage and exchange of tariff and trade information with
ITC and UNCTAD, so as to exploit fully complementarities between the work of theseorganizations and the WTO, and to enhance the WTO's analytical capacity on market access
issues.
• Work is proceeding on the co-ordinated collection of detailed data on trade in services and
Foreign Affiliates Trade in Services statistics by international organizations.  Partners in theseefforts are the IMF, UN, UNCTAD, OECD and EUROSTAT.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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• Staff are engaged in the provision of guidance material (i.e.  a compiler's guide) to assist national
compilers in providing statistics on trade in serv ices relevant to GATS, as defined in the Manual
on Statistics of International Trade in Services.  This work is also being carried out in co-
operation with other international organizations.
• Efforts will be continued to establish a common data set on merchandise trade for international
organizations.  This work is being coordinated by the WTO.
Library Services
• Access to the Library's database and related web pages through the Internet will benefit the
Member countries especially the developing and least-developed countries, universities, specializedresearchers, and the public at large.  It will also add some tools to capacity building and increase the
transparency of the WTO.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded from the regular budget:  1,600
- by staff funded from trust funds:  3,000.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Economic Research and Statistics
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 49
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 6,170,000
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Library 609,000
 - Other 28,000
TOTAL 6,807,600
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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External Relations Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• Continue to enhance and strengthen relations with Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs),
whose mandates are related to WTO activities to ensure, within WTO's mandate, cooperation andpolicy coherence.
• Continue to expand and intensify relations with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as well
as with Parliamentary Organizations , Parliaments and Parliamentarians.
• Continue to improve the efficiency of the WTO's Registry function.
Background
• Increasing cooperation and communication betwee n the WTO and IGOs, and especially those
concerned with trade and development activities, has helped to clarify the role and work of therespective institutions.
• WTO activities have been of major interest to both legislators and civil society.:
• The interest of legislators has increased since the Seattle Ministerial Conference when for the first
time 100 parliamentarians present with their national delegations decided to establish aparliamentary dimension to WTO.  Since then, regular meetings have been organized in parallel
to Ministerial Conferences but also annually in Geneva by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)and the European Parliament (EP) with support of WTO.  In Cancún more than
300 parliamentarians attended the meetings organized by IPU and EP.
• With regard to NGOs the number of participants has been multiplied by more than 6 since
Singapore.
No. of Eligible NGOs NGOs who attended No. of Participants
Singapore 1996 159 108 235
Geneva 1998 153 128 362
Seattle 1999 776 686 1500 approx
Doha 2001 651 370 370
Cancún 2003 961 795 1578
• Since 2003, outreach activities are organized by WTO for the benefit of NGOs and
parliamentarians of developing countries.  These activities are prepared and attended by staff from
External Relations Division.
• The Registry which is responsible for the processing of incoming and outgoing mail, has
undertaken since 1996 the automation of the process.  It has developed what is called the Registry
Automation System (RAS) to record electronically all the official correspondence.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Main Activities
IGOs
• Follow-up on major UN Conferences and processes linked to the work of the WTO.
• Observe various bodies of the UN system and other IGOs, in particular OECD Trade Committee.
• Prepare for participation of the DG and DDGs to meetings of the UN system and other IGOs.
• In close cooperation with other Divisions provid e inputs, as appropriate, to the UN and other
IGOs reports.
• Serve as the focal point for receiving IGOs requests for observer status.
• Coordination of attendance at meetings:  act as the focal point in the Secretariat to ensure
coordination of attendance at meetings of other organizations.
NGOs
• Continue to meet and brief NGO representatives on WTO work and activities and develop
outreach for civil society representatives in developing countries.
• Respond positively whenever possible and attend conferences, seminars organized by NGOs to
respond when necessary to WTO opponents.
• Continue to organize various workshops and seminars and the annual WTO public symposium
(attracting every year more than 700 participants) where key issues related to WTO and the DDAare discussed.
• Continue to identify key issues of concern to NGOs and develop appropriate strategies.  In that
regard after Cancún, the time may have come to revisit the registration procedures and in
particular set up more precise criteria.  Permanent Registration of NGOs could also be an issue to
be addressed by Members.
Parliamentarians
• Continue to develop working relations with parliamentary institutions which can help to build
support for the WTO.
• Develop more outreach activities for the benefit of parliamentarians of developing countries.
• Work closely with the IPU and the European Parliament to follow-up the various meetings
organized to discuss a Parlia mentary dimension to the WTO.
• Develop contacts with key parliamentary delegations, staff and researchers and provide them with
regular updates on the WTO activities.
The organization of the 6
th Ministerial Conference to be held in principle in 2005 will impact on the
work of the External Relations Division responsible for the registration of NGOs and the preparationof many related events.  Depending on the decision taken by Members, the 2005 objectives will have
to be revisited accordingly.
Registry
• As correspondence increases regularly, more than 12000 incoming letters recorded by Registry
in 2002, a new phase of the Registry Automation System is being developed in order to scan all
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Miscellaneous
• Protocol:  in charge of official relations with Members including host country and protocol
matters in close liaison with the Office of the Director-General.  Maintain Directory and issueregular versions.  An Internet compatible version of the Directory is being developed to inform
Members more quickly on changes made in the list of Representatives to WTO.
Expected Results
• As the UN system has established a linkage between the objectives set up by the various UN
global conferences (Millennium Declaration, Financing for Development, World Summit forSustainable Development) and the Doha Developm ent Agenda, formal and informal contacts will
continue to be developed to follow-up on these Conferences with a view to ensure, within WTO's
mandate, cooperation and policy coherence.
• Closer relations with NGOs and parliamentarians and regular information exchanges help to
increase the understanding of the work of the WTO and the benefits of the rules-based
multilateral trading system and trade liberalization.
• Closer involvement of parliamentarians as elected officials with strong links to civil society
groups, from both developing and developed coun tries, can further enhance such understanding
and build more support for the WTO and the current Doha negotiations.
• The new phase of the Registry Automation System will ensure quicker dissemination of the
registry files to the Divisions concerned and facilitate archiving.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
Technical assistance in External relations is devoted to outreach activities for the benefit of
Parliamentarians and civil society of developing countries and countries in transition.  Estimated time:
3,000 hours.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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External Relations Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 8
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 1,110,600
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 1,111,400
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Informatics Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Background
A significant part of the resources of the Division is dedicated to the operational maintenance of the
infrastructure, the information systems and tools in production, and provide support and training to users.
In this regard, the objectives are the same every biennium, except that the number of divisional
information systems to maintain and staff to support grows constantly.  The other resources are dedicated
to the development of new applications with the participation of external consultants where necessary.
The various aspects of the IT Security Policy are gradually implemented and closely monitored by the ITSecurity Officer.
Approximately every four years, part of the resources are dedicated to the study, testing and migration to
new desktop and network environments.  This is undertaken as new technologies appear and older ones
are no longer supported by manufacturers.  Such a study will have to be started again in the second half
of 2005.
Main Activities
• Information Technology strategy and research to align the constant evolution of technology and the
needs of the Organization.
• The maintenance, operation and evolution of the existing infrastructure covering desktops, Local
Area Network, Intranet/Internet, E-Mail, video conference, meeting room PowerPoint presentations
and Divisional Systems.
• IT Security.
• The analysis, development and implementation of IT Projects requested by Divisions.
• The IT budget and expenditures, the IT asset management, the IT training and the users' support.
• The Support of special events (Geneva Week, High-Level meetings, WTO Ministerial Conference).
• The participation in inter-organization committees and Task Forces related to IT.
• Enhance remote access capabilities.Objectives
• To fulfill the on-going core functions of the Division:  Research, management and enhancements o f
the Information and Communication Technology infrastructure and IT systems, and provide the bes t
user support and training as well as services for the Secretariat and Members.
• To maintain and enhance Payroll and HR systems.
• To continuously enhance the existing IT Security Policy to protect against permanent and more
sophisticated threats as well as safeguard the Organisation's information assets, including disaste r
recovery and business continuity.
• To introduce IT facilities and services when and where required, one of which is the automation o f
the Conference Services (not started in 2003 for lack of funds).
• To achieve all the IT requirements for WTO Ministerial Conferences.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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• Participation in the establishment of new WTO Reference Centers, the update of existing ones and in
technical assistance activities requiring the use of IT.
Expected Results
• Within the expected budgetary allocations, it is most likely that all the tasks identified in the
objectives will be met.
Estimate of work hours in the current year allocated to technical assistance activities in your Division:
It is estimated that 50 days of technical assistance will be provided as part of the Division's contribution
to the creation of the WTO Trade Reference Centers.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Informatics Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 22.5
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 2,899,900
Temporary Assistance 1,573,800
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment 2,137,100
Expendable Equipment 163,000
Contractual Services
 - Office automation 2,253,800
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
 - Joint Services 13,000
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 9,041,400
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Information and Media Relations Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• An overall, multi-year objective of the Division is to be pro-active in providing information that fosters
public understanding and support for the role and work of the WTO.  The importance of this objective
was re-affirmed most recently by Members in the Doha Declaration:  "to promote a better publicunderstanding of the WTO and to communicate the benefits of a liberal, rules-based multilateral
trading system.".  Achievements under this objective are measurable through opinion surveys by
Members, through an increase in media coverage of the WTO and through better and more accuratereporting on the WTO.
• A second multi-year objective focuses on providing information which fosters greater transparency in
the operations and decision-making of the WTO.  This objective is linked to various WTO decisions
for greater transparency, including paragraph 10 of the Doha Declaration:  "we are committed to
making the WTO's operations more transparent, including through more effective and prompt
dissemination of information, and to improve dialogue with the public".
Achievements under this objective can be measured through a continued rise in the numbers of
individuals using the WTO website.  Our specific objective in this respect will be to achieve a monthly
average of 650,000 user sessions in 2004 and 700,000 in 2005, and to increase the database of
registered users to 65,000 for 2004 and 80,000 in 2005.
• The third multi-year objective is to continue the expansion and effective use of multiple means to
disseminate information worldwide, through information technologies and the use of conventionalmedia relations, publications, and presentations.  A major component will be publication of a new
detailed, trilingual guide to the WTO:  Understanding the WTO.  Achievements will be measurable by
the number of free publications distributed (print version and downloads from the website), books,
videos and CDs sold, and presentations made to visitors.
• A specific objective over the 2004-05 period will be to provide information to support the successful
conclusion of the Doha Agenda negotiations, and to prepare for, and handle media activities, at the nextministerial conference in Hong Kong, China.
Background
The Information and Media Relations Division is the point of contact between the WTO and itsvarious audiences, including the media and the general public.  As such it is a conduit for WTO
information emanating from many WTO Divisions.  Its responsibility is to interpret and present this
information in keeping with WTO key messages and communications objectives, using language
which is accessible and clear, and employing a range of print and electronic media for the broadest
possible dissemination.  It carries out this work in the three WTO working languages:  English,French and Spanish.  The division is organized along operational lines but with staff constantly
supporting each other's activities, according to th eir specialized knowledge and skills.  The broad
areas of activity are media relations, public information, print and electronic publications, and Internet
services.
The Division works with all line Divisions for dissemination of information.  It cooperates more
specifically on a regular basis with the office of the Director-General on news announcements, with
the Research Division on publications and with the Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation
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Main Activities
• The Information and Media Relations Division is committed to improving its outreach efforts to
the public through enhanced media contacts and through better distribution of our information,
research and  reference publications.  Special attention will be devoted to full explanations of the
negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda.
• A major activity for IMRD during 2004-2005 will be the next ministerial conference.  The
number of journalists doubled from Doha to Cancun (from 900 to 1,800), and is expected toincrease further in Hong Kong, China.  At the same time, demand for assistance from delegations
(especially from developing countries) in conducting press briefings and conferences has risensubstantially.  These developments call for a bigger Press Centre, more briefing rooms and
augmentation of the IMRD team servicing the ministerials.  IMRD will begin preparations for the
next ministerial at the appropriate time, including working intensively with the host government
for the best possible press facilities to meet the needs of a greater number of journalists,
facilitating the accreditation of journalists through making the internet process more user-friendly,and enhancing contacts between delegations and the media during the conference.
• IMRD will attend, and disseminate information concerning meetings of some 70 WTO bodies.
The number and frequency of meetings will increase, and the demand for information will grow,
as the work under the Doha Development Agenda gathers momentum and as we approach the
next ministerial conference in Hong Kong, China.
• Press officers will continue to build not only on existing relationships with journalists but to
extend their efforts to encompass those reporters who may be unfamiliar with the work of the
organization.
• In addition to the normal briefings on the work of  the WTO bodies, the division plans to continue
programmes targeted for journalists who may not have experience with WTO issues.  IMRD will
organize six 3-day information seminars during 2004-2005 for journalists from developing and
developed countries.  On average, 15 journalists will attend each seminar.  The German
foundation Friedrich Ebert Stiftung will finan ce the travel, hotel and per diem for about 10
journalists from developing countries for each seminar.  Developed-country journalists will attend
at their own expense.
• The Internet is becoming our most effective vehicle for distributing WTO information to the
general public worldwide.  The website now attracts an average of 600,000 visitors per month.This rose to a record 838,000 visitor during the period of the Cancún Ministerial.  The web team
will work to improve interaction with existing users of the website, to facilitate access to itscontent and to implement automation software which will make it easier for users to find exactly
the information they require.  IMRD will use Tridion Content Management System (CMS) to
stabilize staffing requirements in a climate of continuously increasing workload.  The
measurement of success will be to still have only a four-member team  working on the public
website by end 2005, and to have the CMS in operation for automated workflow of news items.
To measure the efficacy of the website, web-based user surveys will be conducted during 2004
and 2005, the results of which will be compared with a similar survey carried out in 2002.  Inaddition, IMRD will increase the number of contact database registered users to 65.000 by
end 2004 and 80,000 by end 2005.  The targets for average number of user sessions on the
website per month are 650,000 by end 2004 and 700,000 by end 2005.
• In concert with the Institute for Technical Cooperation and Training, IMRD will continue to
support WTO Reference Centres, particularly through the development of new information and
training tools available on CD-ROM and through  the Internet.
• IMRD will be working with other divisions throug h the publications committee, to determine the
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Development Agenda.  All information, both print and electronic, will be updated as necessary to
reflect developments in the regular work of the WTO, and to report progress in the Doha
Development Agenda.
• The IMRD Publications group will further expand on its private sector partnerships in the
publication and distribution of WTO materials aiming at an increase in the reach anddissemination of books (print and electronic versions) and CDs worldwide.  Such partnerships
have extended our reach in the distribution of publications and reduced printing/production costsby about CHF 600,000 annually.
Members of the Division will continue, and expand where appropriate, their contacts with the
public through IMRD-organized lectures and seminars for students, business groups, NGOs and
government officials.  Over 15,000 visitors to the WTO have attended these presentations in the
period  2001-2003, representing more than 450 groups and organizations.
• The use of video material to promote a better understanding of the WTO will continue through
production of a 20-minute virtual tour of the WT O and through the use of timely Video News
Releases for major events.  Developments in Internet technologies will enable the Division to
make a more effective use of webcasting to distribute its videos and electronic news release.
Distribution will also continue using video material on CD-Roms, particularly in support of
technical assistance activities.
Expected Results
• Greater public understanding of the WTO and an increase in support for liberalization of trade.
• Media and public awareness of the aims of the Doha Agenda and of developments in the
negotiations.
• Increase in the effectiveness of the website as a means for dissemination of WTO information and
data, with a continuing increase in the number of users worldwide.
• A growing list of information, research and reference publications meeting high standards for
editorial content, style and presentation.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:  3,680 hours
for:
• establishment of WTO Reference Centres;
• development of online training tools;
• development and maintenance of "technical assistance" website and web pages;
• providing daily news summaries and other information content to WTO Reference Centres.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Information and Media Relations Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 20.5
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 2,653,100
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions *
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 5,000
 - Publications 185,000
 - Public Information Activities 210,000
 - Other
TOTAL 3,053,100
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Background
The ITTC is the point of complex interaction of the Secretariat's duties and responsibilities.  As a
result, its scope of work embraces substantive policy as well as finance.
Technical assistance is a core function of the WTO Secretariat, mandated by Ministers.  WTO
technical assistance helps Members and Observers to understand the Agreements and participate
effectively in the Doha Development Agenda work programme.
Developing and least-developed countries have made clear that their continued participation in, and
support for, the negotiations is conditional upon the provision of adequate technical assistance and
capacity building.  Developed countries have acknowledged this conditionality by providing
additional resources.
The ITTC's overall responsibilities include developing policy as it relates to technical assistance and
capacity building;  serving as Secretariat contact point for donors, recipients and regional andinternational agencies;  designing annual technical assistance plans to be implemented by the
Secretariat;  co-ordinating and overseeing implementation of annual plans;  assisting with delivery of
activities;  providing Secretariat support for deve lopment-related Committees;  and, in co-ordination
with the Technical Cooperation Audit (TCA), en suring appropriate monitoring and evaluation of
WTO technical assistance efforts.
Main Activities
• Implementation of the WTO 2004 and 2005 Technical Assistance Plans.
• Design of the WTO 2005 and 2006 Technical Assistance Plans.
• Co-ordination of WTO technical cooperation/capacity building within the WTO Secretariat
Technical Assistance Management Committee (TAMC), with the WTO membership, and with other
multilateral agencies.Objectives
• Provide technical assistance to WTO Members and Observers as mandated by the Doha
Ministerial Declaration.
• Implementation (overall responsibility) of the New WTO Strategy for Technical Cooperation, and
the development of technical cooperation policy as appropriate.
• Developing policy for sustainable technical cooperation and capacity building beyond the Doha
negotiations.
• Improving participants' understanding of the multilateral trading system and international trade
law, and of the activities, scope and structure of the WTO.
• Assisting countries recipients of technical assistance in the implementation of agreed international
trade rules and to contribute towards human resource development.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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• Joint delivery of TA activities with the core Integrated Framework agencies.
• Management of the joint WTO/OECD Doha Development Agenda Trade-Related Technical
Assistance and Capacity-Building Database.
• Planning, organization and implementation of the following activities:  Technical cooperation
workshops and seminars (regional and national) covering all WTO-related activities;  Three-monthTrade Policy Courses (TPCs), regional and Geneva based;  Three-week Introductory Courses;
Specialized Courses (eg.  Dispute Settlement, Trade Negotiations, GATS);  One-day Introduction
Courses;  Training for trainers;  Distance-learning;  Cooperation with universities and other
academic institutions;  Coordinating and implementing WTO policy regarding externaloutsourcing of technical cooperation training activities and reporting on the operation of the WTO
outsourcing roster;  Improving didactic material and training techniques;  Servicing the Joint
Advisory Board on Training;  Assisting the Asso ciation of Former Participants to GATT/WTO
TPCs;  Developing, organizing and conducting other forms of courses if required.
Expected Results
• Expected results for the recipient countries of TA include:
• better understanding of WTO rights and obligations;
• identifying the opportunities arising from the WTO Agreements;
• enhancing capacity for implementation of Agreements;  and
• assisting efforts to enhance capacity to draw on the benefits of the trading system (in
partnership with key agencies and bilateral donors).
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded from the regular budget:  25 posts (24 full time, 2 half-time) X 12 months
- by staff funded from Temporary Funds:  9.5 X 12 months
Note :  All members of the ITTC devote 100 per cent of their time to technical assistance activities.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 25
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 3,208,400
Temporary Assistance 440,500
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building 28,000
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
 - Missions Technical 185,000
Trade Policy Training Cources 3,201,400
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 14,800
 - Dispute Settlement Panels 1,287,000
 - Publications 37,000
 - Other
TOTAL 8,402,100
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Intellectual Property Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
A. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Objectives
• Provide efficient service to the regular and special sessions of the TRIPS Council, in particular to
facilitate progress/completion of ongoing negotiations and work programmes, in the light of existing
mandates and any new decisions that may be taken by Members, and to dispute settlement panels in the
intellectual property area.
• Maintain and, if possible, increase assistance to WTO Members through technical cooperation, in
particular in conjunction with WIPO, and through the provision of information/advice more generally.
• Maintain and develop lines of communication with other intergovernmental organizations, the NGO
community, intellectual property practitioners and the academic community so that they have an
adequate understanding of the TRIPS Agreement and of WTO processes.
• Contribute to other Secretariat activities relating to intellectual property rights, including in regard to
geographical indications and other outstanding implementation issues in the TRIPS area.
Background
• The Intellectual Property Division is responsible for servicing the regular and special sessions of the
Council for TRIPS and also, jointly with the Legal Division, dispute settlement panels in theintellectual property area.  The TRIPS Council has had a heavy agenda of work resulting from its
built-in agenda and decisions taken at Doha, particularly in the areas of public health, geographicalindications and biotechnology/biodiversity/traditional knowledge, and this can be expected to
continue in 2004/05.
• Intellectual property issues arise in other areas of the work of the WTO, such as in regard to
implementation issues, special and differential treatment, TPR, and economic research.
• Given that the TRIPS Agreement is one of the most demanding WTO Agreements from the
implementation point of view, technical cooperation is particularly important.  Within its resources,
the Division seeks to provide such assistance as it can, focusing on those aspects on which it hasspecial knowledge and working wherever possible with WIPO and other relevant international
organizations.
• In the ongoing public debate about globalization and the role of the WTO, the TRIPS Agreement is a
frequent subject of discussion and views, for example in regard to such matters as its public healthimplications and the relationship of IP protection to the conservation and sustainable use of
biodiversity.  In accordance with the mandate given to the Secretariat by the General Council, the
Division seeks to ensure that such discussion is as well informed as possible about WTO matters.
Main Activities
• While further guidance on certain activities may be provided by the General Council by
15 December 2003, the main activities in the TRIPS Council are likely to include continuation of thework on geographical indications (presently taking place both in the special and regular sessions) and
on the complex of issues relating to biotechnology/biodiversity/traditional knowledge and folklore.In addition, the Council has to develop an amendment to the TRIPS Agreement to replace the
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and Public Health.  Further, the Council will continue its work on a range of other matters such as
reviewing national legislation, technical cooperation and transfer of technology under Article 66:2.
• In regard to technical cooperation, one of the tasks in 2004/05 will be continuing the implementation
of the Joint WIPO-WTO Initiative on Technical Cooperation in Favour of Least-DevelopedCountries.  The Division also plans to put emphasis on technical cooperation to facilitate
"operationalizing" the Decision on Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreementand Public Health and a number of regional workshops, to this end, are envisaged.  Further, Division
Members will continue to participate as required in other seminars and workshops in developing
countries and to provide advice to local delegations and visiting officials, and, in writing or through
oral communication, to capital-based experts.
• In regard to other IGO's, the Division has close cooperative relations with the WIPO, with which the
WTO has a cooperation agreement.  It also cooperates wherever possible with other IGO's such as
UPOV, the WHO and the CBD.  In regard to "civil society", the Division attempts to respond to the
strong interest of the NGO community, industry associations, intellectual property practitioners and
the academic community, by receiving visitors, responding to enquiries and participating in their
meetings where possible.
Expected Results
• The TRIPS Council should reach agreement by the middle of 2004 on an amendment to replace the
Decision of 30 August 2003 on the Implementation of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on theTRIPS Agreement and Public Health.
• Further, the Regular and Special Session of the TRIPS Council should complete/progress work in
other areas in accordance with any time-frames to be set by the General Council by15 December 2003.
• Assistance to developing countries so as to help them implement the TRIPS Agreement and the
Declaration/Decisions on TRIPS and Public Health in a way conducive to their national development
objectives.
B. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT
Objectives
• Provide efficient service to the Committee established under the plurilateral Agreement on
Government Procurement, in particular to facilitate completion of the renegotiation of the Agreementin accordance with the schedule decided by the Committee (1 January 2005) and the accession of
new Parties, and to dispute settlement panels that may be established.
• Provide efficient service to the further work on transparency in government procurement as may be
decided by Members.
• Provide technical cooperation and information/advice to WTO Members.
• Maintain and develop lines of communication with other intergovernmental organizations, business,
the NGO community, the academic world, etc.
• Cooperate with other parts of the Secretariat on government procurement matters.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Background
• The Division is responsible for servicing the plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement,
including its Committee, its schedules, the ongoing work on the renegotiation of the agreement and
(with the Legal Affairs Division) any dispute settlement proceedings that may eventuate.
• It is expected that guidance will be given by the General Council by 15 December 2003 on the
further work to be undertaken in the WTO on transparency in government procurement.
• The Doha Ministerial Declaration calls for enhanced technical assistance and support for capacity-
building in this area of transparency in government procurement and there is a growing interest ininformation on the plurilateral Agreement.
• A number of other IGOs are active in the area of government procurement, including the World Bank
and regional development banks, UNCITRAL, OECD and ITC and there is need to
cooperate/coordinate with them.
Main Activities
• Activity under the plurilateral Agreement can be expected to continue at a high level, particularly
with the target of completing the renegotiation of the Agreement (both text and coverage) by the end
of the year and the large number of WTO Members (presently 16) in the process of accession.  In
addition, the Division will also service (jointly with the Legal Division) any panels arising under the
Agreement.
• The main activities in regard to transparency in government procurement will depend on the
guidance to be provided by Members by 15 December 2003.
• Subject to such guidance, the Secretariat will carry out its technical cooperation activities in
accordance with the Plan submitted to the Committee on Trade and Development.
Expected Results
• The Committee on Government Procurement has set a target of spring 2004 for the completion, albeit
on a provisional basis, of the renegotiation of the text of the Agreement on Government Procurement
and of 1 January 2005 for the completion of the negotiations as a whole, including coverage.
• In regard to transparency in government procurement, the expected results will depend on the
decisions that should be taken by Members by 15 December 2003.
• The technical cooperation activities of the Secretariat should result in a better understanding on the
part of policy makers in developing countries of the possible options for enhanced multilateral
cooperation in the area of transparency in government procurement and, where requested, of the pros
and cons of accession to the GPA and the procedures and requirements for such accession.  In the
case of countries acceding to the GPA, Secretariat technical cooperation should assist them in their
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C. TRADE AND COMPETITION POLICY
Objectives
• Provide efficient service to the further work on the interaction between trade and competition policy
as may be decided by Members.
• Provide technical cooperation, in conjunction with UNCTAD and other intergovernmental
organizations where appropriate, and information/advice more generally to WTO Members, in
accordance with any further guidance to be provided by Members.
• Maintain and develop lines of communication with other intergovernmental organizations, business,
the NGO community, the academic world, etc.
• Contribute to other Secretariat activities on competition policy matters.
Background
• It is expected that guidance will be given by the General Council by 15 December 2003 on the
further work to be undertaken by the WTO on trade and competition policy.
• The Doha Ministerial Declaration calls for enhanced technical assistance and capacity-building in the
area of trade and competition policy.
• Competition policy issues arise in other areas of the Secretariat's work, including in connection with
WTO agreements already containing competition provisions, TPR, economic research, etc.
Main Activities
• The main activities in this area will depend on the guidance to be provided by Members by
15 December 2003.
• Subject to such guidance, the Secretariat will carry out its technical cooperation activities in
accordance with the plan submitted to the Committee on Trade and Development.
Expected Results
• The expected results will depend on the decisions that should be taken by Members by
15 December 2003.
• The technical cooperation activities of the Secretariat should result in a better understanding on the
part of policy makers in developing countries of the links between competition policy, trade and
development and of the possible options for enhanced multilateral cooperation in the WTO in this
area.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- Intellectual property 20%
- Government procurement 30%
- Competition policy 50%WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Intellectual Property Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 13,5
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 1,789,300
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 1,790,100
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Language Services and Documentation Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• General.  Continue to provide language, conference and documentation services in an efficient and
timely way.
• Conference services.  Enhance services provided during ministerial conferences.  Improve
applications dealing with the management of meeting rooms in Geneva and abroad.  Develop in-
house application to register participants for Si xth Ministerial Conference.  Enhance Members' Home
Page including the electronic posting and updating of the calendar of meetings.
• Documentation services.  Provide improved services to Members, observers and the public at large.
Special attention will be devoted to the replacement of Documents Online and its integration with
conferences and delegations' modules.
• Translation services.  Reduce excessive dependence on external resources by reinforcing the in-house
translation/revision capacity, mainly in the legal area.  Enhance communications infrastructure and
applications.  Upgrade and enhance translation assistance systems and other computer assisted
translation tools.
Background
In recent years, there has been an enormous increase in the demand for language, documentation and
meeting services.  From 1997 to 2002 the annual tran slation workload rose by about 75 per cent from
some 14 million to 24 million original words/year.  The total number of meetings has doubled (whilethe number of formal meetings has remained relatively stable, the number of informal, private and
bilateral meetings more than doubled).  The number of printing jobs has increased by about 75% and
the number of original pages for printing has more than doubled.  The projected level of activity
in 2003 should be similar to that in 2002.
On the translation side, LSDD has sought to meet  this increased demand in a cost-efficient way,
through more sophisticated equipment and new computer applications, and also by expanding itsvarious types of translation resources:  temporary in-house translators, SSC translators and external
contractual translators.  It is important to make a judicious mix of these various types of translation
resources together with regular staff in order to meet the essential objectives of quality, timeliness and
cost-effectiveness.  However, it is now apparent that reliance on external resources has reached the
point of creating inefficiencies due to the in-house revision bottleneck (in-house revision being theessential tool for quality assurance).  The need to strengthen the in-house translation/revision capacity
has been making itself felt, particularly in the highly sensitive area of dispute settlement, and the
necessity of converting temporary assistance into some additional posts at the required level is
therefore clear and pressing.
On the printing side, LSDD has also been very proactive (and successful) in seeking to handle this
increased demand in a cost-efficient manner.  Various measures implemented, (in particular
investment in new equipment, allowing more prin ting on demand and thus reducing stocks, electronic
dissemination and lighter paper) have enabled us to moderate and even reverse the trend.  Thus,
although the number of original pages sent for printing has increased steadily (by 265% between 1995and 2003), the number of printed pages has increased by only 65% (2003 over 1995), as opposed to
91% for the comparison 2001 over 1995;  and the number of mailings, which had increased by 25%
(1995-2000), has now actually decreased slightly (-1.30%) for the comparison 2003 over 1995.  All in
all, the total cost of a printed page has fallen from SwF 0.08 to approximately SwF 0.025.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Main activities
I. On-going Projects:
• Workflow Management.  Fine-tuning work processes to enable better coordination and integration of
translation and text-processing operations between Centre William Rappard and Rue Rothschild,
including telework by external collaborators.
• Document Management System (DMS).  Enhancement and refinement of several modules of the
DMS on account of additional requirements and users' needs.
• Documents Online.  Enhancement of research and consultation services for Members and Observers,
including tighter integration with the CRN and conference services.
• Translation Assistance Systems.  Fine-tuning of existing applications including expansion of
translation memories, and study of new developments and applications.
• Printing facilities.  Completing replacement of obsolete equipment for document reproduction with a
view to introducing all-digital, on-demand reproduction techniques.
• Provision of better infrastructure and communication facilities to staff and external collaborators
working outside of headquarters.
II. New Projects:
• Development of an in-house application to enable the on-line accreditation of participants attending
ministerial conferences (the Cancún application was developed largely by the host government).
• Development of new modules of the DMS, particularly those dealing with the management of
ministerial conferences.
• Provide for the replacement of Documents Online (the development and maintenance tools used for
the existing application will soon not be supported by the manufacturer).
• Expansion of training courses on matters relating to Online Documentation and Conference services.
• Exploration/introduction of new facilities in the area of text synchronisation, machine assisted
translation, voice and hand-writing recognition for internal and external translators.
• Further development of graphic arts production.  Introduction of a new module for transmitting
electronic and paper worklflow.
Expected results
• Improved service to Members and the Secretariat.
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Language Services and Documentation Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 141
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 17,522,800
Temporary Assistance 11,105,500
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment 260,000
Expendable Equipment 640,000
Contractual Services
 - Reproduction 1,355,000
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 30,884,100
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Legal Affairs Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• Assist WTO Members and the Director General in timely composition of dispute settlement
panels.
• Give legal advice to panels and generally support the drafting of panel reports in an appropriate and
speedy way.
• Give legal advice to the Office of the Director-General, to the organs of the WTO and to other
divisions, including servicing the JAB Secretariat and providing legal assistance to the
Administration and General Services Division.
• Participate in technical assistance activities, mainly in respect of training, and more generally help
fulfil the training mandate of Article 27.3 DSU and the Doha Ministerial Declaration.
• Prepare, publish and keep up to date the WTO Analytical Index and other publications such as the
Status of Legal Instruments, the DS Reports and the dispute settlement booklet.
• Perform the depository functions of the Director-General in respect of WTO Agreements.
• Set up and maintain a Dispute Settlement Registry.
Background
The first four objectives mentioned above are related to functions of the Secretariat and of the LAD
which have been constantly growing over the past years and which, post-Cancún, can be expected to
continue to grow in the immediate and medium-term future.
Main Activities
• The main activities all relate to the seven objectives mentioned above.  In addition, the LAD
increasingly gives informal legal advice to individual Members of the Organization and members of
the LAD staff advise other Secretariat personnel "à titre personnel" about their rights under the StaffRegulations and Rules.  In general, it can be said that demands for internal legal advice and for legal
advice to individual Members have been growing fast and probably will continue to do so.
Expected Results
• The Division expects to assist in the composition and to service approximately 12-15 panels during
the year 2004 (including 21.5 and 22.6 procedures) and a similar number in 2005.
• The Division should be able to respond to all reasonable requests for training and teaching activities
in the framework of technical assistance.  The demand for such services is constantly growing andcannot continue to be regarded as a mere "time-filler", when there are temporarily fewer panels to be
serviced.
• The Division should be able to dispense legal advice more efficiently and more in anticipation of
developments, rather than "after the fact".  This will depend, however, on WTO Members, committee
chairpersons and Secretariat staff (including management) bringing matters of potential legalconsequence to the Division's attention in a timely manner.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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• Updates to the Analytical Index will be prepared once a year.  A new edition will be published every
three-to-five years.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded from the regular budget;
- by staff funded from trust funds.
• The technical assistance function of the division is mandated by the Marrakesh Agreement (mainly
training, see Article 27 of the DSU) and the Doha Ministerial Declaration.  As in recent years, we
estimate that around 10-15 percent of the work of the lawyers in the division is devoted to technical
assistance.  This work continues to be shared among the lawyers of the division.  Since October 2002,
LAD has benefitted from the presence of one PSF staff member who divides her time more or lessequally between technical assistance and dispute settlement activities.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Legal Affairs Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 16
Divisional Budget
CHF CS E C T I O N
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 2,097,800
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 2,098,600
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Market Access Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
Council for Trade in Goods (CTG):
• The objectives of the CTG in 2004/2005 will, to a considerable extent, be linked to the activities
of its subsidiary bodies.  It oversees the multilateral trade agreements and ministerial decisions
covering the goods sector and takes actions, where required, on the issues raised by the various
committees which report to it.
• Such actions would include examining and approving requests for waivers and waiver extensions,
adopting the terms of reference under which free trade agreements are to be examined, and taking
note of the situation regarding compliance with relevant notification obligations.  The CTG mayalso address substantive matters on goods-related issues including the review under Article 9 of
the TRIMs Agreement and China's Transitional Review.
• Trade facilitation:  Based on the Cancun Ministerial statement and further guidance from the
General Council, the CTG is expected to cont inue its work on trade facilitation under the Doha
mandate, directing it to (a) review and, as appropriate, clarify and improve relevant aspects of
Articles V, VIII and X of the GATT, and (b) identify the trade facilitation needs and priorities ofMembers, particularly of developing and least-developed countries.  Work is also expected to
address technical assistance and support for capacity building in this area, based on Members'
commitment to ensuring such support.
Committee on Market Access:
• Make as much progress as possible on the ongoing exercise of introducing HS2002 changes to
schedules of concessions.
• Complete the exercise of introducing HS96 changes to schedules of concessions.
• Complete the transposition of the remaining schedules of concessions into the Harmonized
System.
• Work closely with the Statistics Division in respect of the IDB and the CTS databases.
• Participate in the WCO meetings of the Harmonized System Committee.
• Provide information and advice to acceding countries, delegations, other international
intergovernmental organizations, private parties and Divisions in the Secretariat on matters
relating to market access matters, including Article XXVIII.
• Process and circulate expeditiously notifications received.
Negotiating Group on Market Access:
• Following resumption of negotiations, reach agreement on the modalities for market access
negotiations.
• Establish a programme of meetings and work programme to proceed with the negotiations.
• Ensure the provision of technical assistance.
• Assist in the compilation and analysis of NTB notifications.
• Provide information and advice to Members on the negotiations.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Committee on Customs Valuation:
• Monitor Members' legislation and implementation of the Agreement.
• Continue to address the implementation issues re lating to customs valuation, in accordance with
paragraph 8.3 of the Doha Decision on Implementation-Related Issues and Concerns, and, as
necessary the tirets in paragraph 7 of document Job(01)/152/Rev.1.
• Provide information and advice to delegations, other international organizations, private parties
and other Divisions in the Secretariat on matters relating to customs valuation.
• Advising Members on technical assistance needs and availability of assistance and working with
other donors and providers to ensure provision of assistance.
• Organize and participate in technical cooperation missions to expedite implementation.
• Receive and process notifications of legislation.
• Participate in the meetings of the Technical Committee on Customs Valuation (at the World
Customs Organization) and other relevant bodies, as necessary.
• Monitor and administer aspects related to the Agreement on Preshipment Inspection.
Committee on Rules of Origin (CRO)
• As mandated in Part IV of the Agreement on Rules of Origin (Agreement), the main objective of
the CRO is to harmonize non-preferential rules of origin.  The CRO has been working on the
project to harmonize non-preferential rules of origin since 1995.  To date, the number of
outstanding issues is 138, out of which 94 core policy issues, in July 2002, were forwarded to the
General Council for discussion and decision.  The General Council, at its meeting in July 2004,extended the deadline for completing these 94 issues to July 2004 and agreed that the CRO
complete the remaining work by the end of 2004.
• Pursuant to Article 6.1 of the Agreement, the CR O is also to review annually the implementation
and operation of the Agreement.
Committee on Import Licensing
• Monitor Members' import licensing systems and the implementation of the Agreement on Import
Licensing Procedures.
• Review annually the implementation of China's commitments in the import licensing area.
• Review biennially the implementation and operation of the Agreement under Article 7.1 of the
Agreement.
• Receive and process notifications of legislation, replies to the Questionnaire, new import licensing
procedures and changes to existing licensing procedures submitted under Articles 1, 5, 7 and 8 of
the Agreement.
• Provide information and advice to delegations, other international organisations, private parties
and other Divisions in the Secretariat on matters relating to import licensing.
• Organise and participate in technical assistance missions.
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products
• Advance on the Non-Tariff Measures Work Programme.
• Review product coverage.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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• Review classification issues.
• Increase participation by adding new Members.
• Monitor and review implementation matters
• Review other matters relating to trade in information technology products.
• Organize workshops and technical assistance, as needed.
Other:
Quantitative Restrictions
• Monitor Biannual notifications of QRs in accordance with Decisions G/L/59 and G/L/60.
• Maintain and update QR database.
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness of information in notifications and, if necessary, verify with
delegations.
Tariff information available in the Market Access Division
• obtain from delegations the most recent tariff information available which is stored in the Library
of the Market Access Division.  Update the national tariffs with the amendments sent by Members
in paper form.
• make a compilation of all the national tariffs on paper and in electronic or other form that are kept
in the Secretariat in order to have a correct idea of what is available.
• Update documentation on latest tariffs received.
Background
Council  for Trade in Goods :
• The CTG was established pursuant to Article IV, paragraph 5 of the Marrakech Agreement
establishing the WTO.  It oversees the multilateral trade agreements and ministerial decisions
covering the goods sector and takes actions, where required, on the issues raised by the various
committees which report to it.
- trade facilitation
• Work on trade facilitation is based on paragraph 27 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration, as
reaffirmed in the Cancun Ministerial Statement.
Committee on Market Access
• The Committee on Market Access was established under Article IV, paragraph 7 of the WTO by
the General Council at its meeting of 30 January 1995, and its terms of reference are contained in
document WT/L/47.
Negotiating Group on Market Access
• The Negotiating Group on Market Access was established by the TNC at its meeting of
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Committee on Customs Valuation
• The Committee on Customs Valuation was established pursuant to Article 18 of the Agreement
on Customs Valuation.  The mandate for implementation-related issues and concerns related tocustoms valuation are contained in the Doha Decision on Implementation-Related Issues and
Concerns and in paragraph 12 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration.
Committee on Rules of Origin
• The Committee on Rules of Origin was established pursuant to Article 4.1 of the Agreement on
Rules of Origin.  The mandate for harmonization of rules of origin is contained in Part IV of thisAgreement.
Committee on Import Licensing
• The Committee on Import Licensing was established under Article 4 of the Agreement on Import
Licensing Procedures to provide a forum for cons ulting on any matters relating to the Agreement
or the furtherance of its objectives.  The mandate for the annual reviews on the implementation of
China's commitments on import licensing is contained in Section 18 of China's Protocol of
Accession.
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products
• The Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products
was established under the auspices of the Council for Trade in Goods, as provided for in the
Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Informa tion Technology Products (WT/MIN(96)/16) and the
Implementation of the Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products
(G/L/160).
Main Activities
Council for Trade in Goods
• Organize around six meetings a year of the Council for Trade in Goods (i.e.  preparation of draft
agendas, speaking notes, reports of meetings, informal papers, reports to the General Council etc.,and to the extent necessary coordinate activities of the subsidiary bodies of the CTG).
• Organize formal and informal consultations prior to meetings in order to resolve sensitive issues.
• Likely issues to be dealt with include:  China Transitional Review Mechanism, possible continuation
of work on the review envisaged under Article 9 of the TRIMs Agreement, update of the status ofnotifications under the WTO Agreements serviced by subsidiary bodies of the CTG;  other routine
matters passed on by the Market Access Committee.
• Continuing the smooth running of the CTG's regular work in a business-like and effective manner.
• To continue work on trade facilitation under paragraph 27 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration based
on the Cancun Ministerial Statement and further guidance from the General Council.
• Organize and participate in technical assistance missions on trade facilitation in developing
countries according to the 2004/2005 TA Plan.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Committee on Market Access
• Organize three to four formal meetings of the Committee (preparation of speaking notes, reports
of meetings, background papers etc).  Informal meetings will also need to be organized.
• Attend two meetings of the WCO Harmonized System Committee in Brussels.
• Verify electronically HS2002 submissions.
• Continue with the multilateral reviews of the status of HS96 submissions.
• Provide technical assistance in the preparation of HS2002 submissions.
• Keep the waiver situation under review.
Negotiating Group on Market Access
• Organize formal meetings of the Negotiating Group (preparation of speaking notes, summary
reports of meetings and minutes, background notes etc.) and convene informal meetings as
appropriate.
• Prepare papers and provide information on specific  issues in the context of capacity-building and
technical assistance.
• Undertake technical assistance missions on market access negotiations.
• NTBs database:  create a new database to aid in the negotiating process on NTBs in the non-
agricultural market access negotiations.
Committee on Customs Valuation
• Monitor and review annually the implementation of the Customs Valuation Agreement.
• Advise Members on the provisions of the Customs Valuation Agreement and the Preshipment
Inspection Agreement.
• Organize and prepare 4 – 5 meeting of the Committee on Customs Valuation a year (preparation
of draft agendas, speaking notes, reports of meetings, informal papers, reports to the Council forTrade in Goods, etc.  and assist the Chair with consultations among Members).
• Carry out work (background notes, Chair's consultations, reports of meetings, etc.) on
implementation issues in accordance with paragraph 8.3 of the Doha Decision on Implementation-Related Issues and Concerns and with paragraph 12 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration.
• Attend meetings, normally twice annually, of the Technical Committee on Customs Valuation
held at the World Customs Organization in Brussels.
• Organize and participate in technical assistance missions on customs valuation and PSI in
developing countries according to the 2004 and 2005 TA Plans (minimum 4 regional and4 national per year).
• Monitor the implementation of the Agreement on Preshipment Inspection.
• Ensure the efficient operation of the Independent Review Entity under Article 4 of the Agreement
on PSI in cooperation with the International Chamber of Commerce and the InternationalFederation of Inspection Agencies.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Committee on Rules of Origin
• Organize meetings of the Committee on Rules of Origin (preparation of draft agendas, speaking
notes, reports of meetings, reports to the CTG etc.  and assisting the Chairperson with
consultations among Members).
• Carry out work on the Harmonization Work Programme on non-preferential rules of origin.  A
number of intensive one-to-one, small groups, and open-ended informal consultations as well as
formal meetings will be held at both General Council and CRO level.  Members of the Division
will work in close consultation with the Chairman on specific issues with a high degree of
technical complexity and complicated policy implications.  Members of the Division will alsoprovide information and advice to delegations.
• Monitor and review, annually, the implementation of the Agreement on Rules of Origin in light of
the disciplines required by the Agreement.
• Attend meetings of the WCO Technical Committee on Rules of Origin in Brussels.
• Organize and participate in technical cooperation missions on rules of origin.
Committee on Import Licensing
• Organise meetings of the Committee on Import Licensing (preparation of draft agendas, speaking
notes, reports of meetings, reports to the CTG etc.  and assisting the Chairperson with
consultations among Members).
• Advise Members on the provisions of the Agr eement on Import Licensing Procedures and other
WTO Agreements relevant to import licensing.
• Organise and participate in technical assistance missions in developing countries according to
the 2004 and 2005 Technical Assistance Plans;  participate in in-house technical assistance
activities.
• Monitor and review the implementation of the Agreement and the compliance of Members with
the notification obligations.
• Review biennially the implementation and operation of the Agreement pursuant to Article 7.1
(preparation of factual reports for such reviews).
• Review annually the implementation of China's commitments in the import licensing area and
report the results of the reviews to the CTG.
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products
• Provide technical assistance and information to acceding participants.
• Review the implementation of the ITA.
• Continue the work, technical and otherwise, with respect to non-tariff barriers and classification
issues.
• For review of product coverage (ITA II), provide continuing support for the negotiations and the
follow-up if necessary.  In the event of an agreement, design a template to be used for schedules
and electronic verification of schedules.
Quantitative Restrictions
• Process information contained in the notifications in order to input it into the QR database.
• Contact delegations as necessary to verify and correct information contained in notifications.
• Advise delegations on how to fulfil their obligations under G/L/5l9 and G/L/60.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Expected Results
• The smooth running and implementation of the tasks assigned to the different bodies under the
responsibility of the Market Access Division.
Estimated Time Devoted to TA Activities 2004/05
calculated on the basis of one year = 2080 hours (i.e.  40 hours x 52 weeks)
- by staff funded from the regular budget:
TOTAL HOURS over two years 2004/2005 estimated at (5522 hrs x 2) 11,044 hours
- by staff funded from trust funds:  One PSF post i.e.  2080 hours
TOTAL HOURS over two years 2004/2005 estimated at (2080 hrs x 2) 4,160 hours
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TOTAL HOURS FOR MARKET ACCESS DIVISION 15,204 HOURSWT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Market Access Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 14
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 1,851,000
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 1,851,800
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Rules Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• Ensure the efficient functioning of the Negotiating Group on Rules, assisting Members to achieve
consensus, so that the Negotiating Group on Rules can make its contribution to achieving abalanced and meaningful overall result in the DDA.
• Provide the best possible Secretariat support to the increasing number of panels in the Rules area,
so as to facilitate the timely and professional resolution of disputes.
• Assist Members in using regular Rules bodies effectively to achieve transparency and clarity in
implementation of Rules agreements, including through development of recommendations
regarding anti-dumping practice and reaching decisions regarding extensions of developing
country transition periods for the phase-out of export subsidies.:
• Enhance the ability of Members to understand and implement in practice their rights and
obligations under Rules agreements, including through "hands on" expertise and technical
assistance to trade remedy investigating auth orities and practical advice regarding compliance
with subsidies disciplines.
Background
The Rules Division is responsible for all aspects, including dispute settlement, of the following areas
of the WTO's work:  Contingent trade remedies (anti-dumping, countervailing measures, safeguards),
subsidies disciplines, state trading enterprises (Article XVII), and trade in civil aircraft.  The bodies
serviced are:  Negotiating Group on Rules;  Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices, Committee on
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures;  Committee on Safeguards;  Committee on Trade in CivilAircraft;  Technical Sub-Committee of the Committee on Trade in Civil Aircraft;  Working Party on
State Trading;  Working Party on Subsidy Notifications;  Permanent Group of Experts;  Informal
Group on Anti-Circumvention;  Working Group on Implementation.
Main Activities
• The Division staffs the Negotiating Group on Rules with respect to the negotiations concerning
anti-dumping, countervailing measures, and subsidies.  This includes organizing and servicing
meetings of the Negotiating Group, consulting with the Chairman, delegations and managementon matters concerning the negotiations, preparing background papers and notes and such other
assistance as may be requested by participants.  The Division also follows related issues in other
fora, such as the steel negotiations at the OECD, through participation in meetings as an observer,
and providing expert advice as requested.  The Division also has a programme to provide
technical assistance to developing Members regarding the negotiations, through both Geneva- andcapital-based activities.
• The Division services dispute settlement panels relating to its areas of competence, through the
provision of both legal officers and secretaries.  Rules area panels constitute a major portion of all
WTO dispute settlement.  The current level of activity – an average of 4-6 simultaneous panels -
already consumes more staff time than any other activity, with almost all Division staff servicing,
in addition to other responsibilities, one or more panels.  The pressure this places on Divisionresources cannot be overstated.  The increasing number of panels in this area – projected toWT/BFA/SPEC/100
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average 6-10 simultaneous Rules panels for the foreseeable future – will consume an increasing
amount of staff time, and may not be possible to manage given resource limitations.
• The Division staffs numerous regular bodies.  In addition to normal activities in the areas of
notifications and transparency, reviews of national laws, practices, and actions, etc., there are a
number of concrete tasks that these bodies are expected to complete.  The Committee on
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, for example, was tasked by the Ministers at Doha with
considering and deciding whether to extend the transition periods for the phase-out of exportsubsidies for numerous Members, a task that must be repeated every year.  The Division also
participates in related activities in other bodies, for instance as an observer in meetings of the
Participants to the Arrangement on Guidelines for Officially Supported Export Credits at the
OECD, providing background information and expert advice as appropriate.  The Working Group
on Implementation continues to develop recomme ndations on anti-dumping practice for adoption
by the Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices.
• The Division will continue its programmes to assist Members to understand and properly
implement their WTO obligations in the rules area.   This consists primarily in helping Members
and acceding countries which use contingent trade remedies to do so in a WTO-consistent
manner, and helping developing Members understand how and to what extent they can achieve
their goals without providing prohibited subsidies.  To these ends, the Division:  (1) assists, as
requested, in the preparation of relevant legislation, including detailed review and written
comments on draft laws and regulations and (in some cases) direct assistance in the draftingprocess;  (2) assists, as requested, in establishing or improving domestic trade remedy systems to
ensure actions consistent with WTO rules;  (3) develops model laws and how-to manuals for
Members;  (4) provides detailed, practical training in the conduct of contingent trade remedy
investigations;  (5) consults with individual dele gations on specific aspects of interpretation and
application of the relevant agreements;  (6) provides information regarding the practice ofdifferent Members in implementing rules area agreements;  (7) continuously updates the database
of all contingent trade remedy actions taken since 1980;  (8) assists Members benefiting from
transition periods in identifying subsidy programmes that may be subject to prohibition once the
transition period ends and in devising strategies for phasing out or modifying them;  (9) assists in
preparing required notifications;  (10) cooperates with other international institutions (inparticular regional institutions such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)) in
organizing regional technical assistance on issues in the rules area.
• The Division will continue to participate in technical cooperation missions and other forms of
technical assistance (preparation of technical assistance aids such as flow charts, slides,summaries of the Agreements, Internet sites etc., and lecturing in various courses for developing
countries organized by the WTO, or in conjunction with other international organizations).
• The Division will assist Members in any new tasks they may decide to undertake, and will
address as appropriate, problems that may emerge in the areas of subsidies/countervailingmeasures, anti-dumping, safeguards, state trading, and civil aircraft.
Expected Results
• In the area of dispute settlement, the Division will make every effort to continue to provide timely,
competent advice and drafting assistance to enable panels to resolve Members' disputes.  However,
the continued increase in dispute settlement activities may make it difficult, if not impossible, to
provide all assistance requested by panels in a fully satisfactory and/or timely way, given insufficient
staffing resources.
• In the area of Rules Negotiations, the Division will assist Members in achieving consensus on
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• In the conduct of the on-going work of the bodies serviced by the Division, the Division will continue
to ensure the timely, smooth, and efficient functioning of these bodies.  In addition, the Division will
(1) provide expertise and assistance to enable Members to agree on practical recommendations for
anti-dumping practice, and (2) will provide technical expertise to enable developing Members to
implement WTO- consistent subsidy programmes.
• In the area of technical assistance and cooperation, insufficient staffing resources will probably make
it difficult for the Division to fully respond to all requests, following already reduced activity in
recent years.  Nonetheless, the Division will, to the extent possible, continue its work to enableMembers to operate trade remedy systems and subsidy programmes in a WTO-consistent manner.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
Technical assistance activities remain at a level below peak years (6,000 hours).  Regular staff -
+/- 3,000-3,500 hours.  L-staff (1 person as of 1 September 2003) – 500 hours.  Travel time
(approximately 1,000 hours, frequently on weekends) is in addition to these figures.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Rules Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 15
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 1,974,400
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
     COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Permanent Group of Experts
 - Other
TOTAL 1,975,200
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Technical Cooperation Audit Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• WTO operational Divisions and ITTC managers and staff regularly ask for and integrate
information and lessons learned generated by evaluations of TA assistance and training activities
carried out by TCA and the TA providers into policy and programme decisions.
Targets
• The M&E system is finalized and ready for Office-wide application.
• All TA activities, within the scope of WTO's M&E system, will have been evaluated either by
TCA or by TA providers on a regular basis and reported about through the BTORs.
• Recommendations emerged from the evaluation of TA activities are regularly followed up.
• COMTD will have discussed and endorsed the annual evaluation report prepared by TCA.
Background
The Unit, which was established three years ago, assumes responsibility for developing and refining
the M&E system, building up in-house capacity to evaluate TA and training activities anddisseminating the lessons learned within the Secretariat.  The functioning of the M&E system, on a
trial basis though, started generating information on the effects and impact of TA and training
activities for the Donors and beneficiaries, and Members in general.  The M&E system and related
procedures require regular maintenance and adaptation to reflect the needs and specificities of WTO
TA without making it too heavy and bureaucratic.
Main activities
• Priority will be given to the finalisation of the M&E concepts, tools and procedures for 2004.
• TCA will offer regular feedback and briefing services to the operational divisions and ITTC in
order to ensure that the M&E concepts are fully understood and properly applied.  Morespecifically TCA will assist the TA providers throughout the project cycle, i.e.  from needs
assessment and design, objective setting and formulation of indicators of achievement of TAs, tomonitoring and evaluation considerations.  This applies to all the products included in the Annual
Technical Assistance Plan.
• Development of a CD-Rom containing key info rmation on evaluation policies and procedures,
examples of best practices and other supportive materials.
• Evaluation of TA and training activities by TCA.  The number of such evaluations will depend on
the resources available for the Unit.  The aim is to conduct at least twenty on-site evaluations
annually.
• Pending on additional resources available, new ki nds of evaluation will be experimented with,
e.g.  ex-post evaluations regarding the impact of long-term trade policy courses on theparticipants' work and work environment.
• Evaluation materials, including the M&E system and procedures will be made accessible through
the Intranet of the Secretariat.
• Contacts with beneficiaries, donors and partner institutions.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Expected Results
By the end of the biennium:
• TA providers will not only deliver high quality TA and training but also pay more attention to
achieve the desired effects and impact.
• The M&E concepts and tools are regularly and properly used resulting in improved design of the
TA activities and evaluation reports (BTORs).
• The application of the monitoring and evaluation system for programme planning and
implementation will contribute to link TA and training activities to higher level divisional
objectives and results-based management.
• Evaluative information is regularly availabl e and consulted through the Intranet of WTO.
• TCA backup services, e-g- briefing, feedback, etc.  are regularly used by TA providers.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded from the regular budget: 100%
- by staff funded from trust funds: 100%.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Technical Cooperation Audit Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 123,400
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
      COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Trade Policy Training Courses
Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 124,200
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Textiles Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
The textiles Division provides:
• Counselling and technical advice to WTO Members and countries in the process of accession on the
Members' rights and obligations and on the process of the implementation of the ATC and on other
textile matters.
• Technical and secretarial service to the Textiles Monitoring Body.
• Service to DSU panels in cases related to the ATC.
• Information and advice to intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, private sector,
trade associations and academics.
The Textiles Division also maintains:
• Close liaison with other WTO divisions in all matters relating to the textiles sector and participates in
WTO training and technical cooperation functions.
• A broad knowledge base on political, economic and social developments in world textiles and
clothing trade and in government policies and actions in this area.
Background
• From 1974, textiles and clothing trade was largely governed by the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA).
A derogation from the GATT principle of non-discrimination, it provided the basis on which many
industrial countries established quotas through bilateral agreements or unilateral actions on imports of
textiles and clothing from more competitive developing countries.  The MFA expired on
31 December 1994 with the coming into force of the WTO and, under it, the new Agreement on
Textiles and Clothing (ATC).
• The ATC sets the rules for the phasing-out of the former MFA quota system through the gradual
integration of textile and clothing products into GATT rules over 10 years (1995-2004):  it is basedon a "rollover" of the existing MFA quotas into the WTO Agreement as the starting-point for the
transition;  as products are integrated into GATT rules, any quotas on these products must beremoved;  growth rates in the remaining quotas will be progressively enlarged as a means of
liberalization.  It also contains a special safeguard clause to protect against damaging surges in
imports during the transition.  The implementation is overseen by the Textiles Monitoring Body, a
standing body comprising the Chairman and 10 members.
• In 2004, the ATC will reach the last year of the 10-year transitional period, which will lead to the
termination of the ATC and the special rules governing the trade in this sector.  In that last year, a
comprehensive report on the implementation of the ATC during its third stage (2002-2004) will have
to be prepared by the TMB and transmitted to the CTG.
Main Activities
• The provision of technical advice and guidance on Members' rights and obligations in respect of
the application of the provisions of the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing;  (1) to WTO
Members in Geneva and in the capitals, and to countries in the process of accession;  and (2) to a
broad range of other organizations and individuals.  In 2004, the Division will respond, in
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process as well as any matters relating to the ATC which may arise in relation to the Doha
process.
• The secretariat service of the Textiles Monitoring Body, including participation in about
15 meetings during the year, providing advice and information to TMB members, and the
preparation of documentation and reports.  This includes the preparation of the TMB's
comprehensive report on the implementation of the ATC during the 3rd stage.
• The secretariat service to DSU panels on textile matters and on the implementation of the ATC.
This involves arranging meetings, processing submissions, providing information and guidance to
the Legal Division, to the representatives of the disputing Members and to the members of the
Panels, drafting the descriptive part of Panel's reports to the DSB and participating in the
preparation of the Panel's findings and conclusions.
• Advice to intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, trade associations and
academics on the WTO's structure, policies and programmes with particular reference to the
textiles and clothing sector and will provide these organizations and persons with information onthe ATC and its possible economic impact.  The Division also provides to these bodies
information and analysis of developments and trends in global textiles and clothing trade and on
the outlook for the future.
• Maintain liaison with other WTO Divisions by providing information on the provisions of the
Textiles Agreement, on global and regional textiles trade and related economic developments, as
well as on notification obligations and compliance therewith.
• Prepare and present detailed lectures on the provisions and implementation of the ATC and the
future of trade in textiles and clothing after the ATC, as well as on the economic, trade andpolitical aspects of textiles and clothing trade for the activities organized by the Training Institute
and for seminars of the Technical Cooperation Division.  Make presentations at meetings of other
public and private organizations and at numerous sessions with delegations from Members and
acceding countries visiting Geneva.
• Assist Members in the DDA process insofar as the textiles and clothing sector is concerned.
Expected Results
• To assist Members, both delegations in Geneva and their Governments in capitals, to meet their
obligations under the ATC;  to fully understand their rights in this regard;  and to participate in alldiscussions on this Agreement.
• To assist Members in better understanding the challenges and opportunities brought about by the end
of the ATC on 31 December 2004.
• To assist Members in better understanding the challenges and opportunities offered by the DDA
negotiations insofar as the textiles and clothing sector is concerned.
• To assist the TMB in carrying out the comprehensive report on the implementation of the ATC
during the third stage of the integration process, and assist the Chairman of the CTG, as well as WTO
Members, in carrying out its major review as required by Article 8.11 of the ATC.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded from the regular budget: 500
- by staff funded from trust funds: 250.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Textiles Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 3
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 493,600
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
      COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 494,400
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Textiles Monitoring Body
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• Contribute to the efficient functioning of the Textiles Monitoring Body (TMB) by providing full
service to it in carrying out its tasks during the last year of the implementation of the Agreement onTextiles and Clothing (ATC).
• Ensure the preparation and timely adoption by the TMB of its comprehensive report on the
implementation of the ATC during the third stage of the integration process (2002-2004).
• Ensure the timely processing and circulation of notifications and other communications addressed to
the TMB and reports adopted by it, to WTO Members for their information.
• Assist the TMB, in particular in the conduct of its examination of any disputes and unresolved
matters that can be referred to it by WTO Members.
• Preserve transparency on all matters related to the activities of the TMB.
Background
The ATC provides for a transitional period of ten years (1 January 1995-31 December 2004) for the
integration of the textiles and clothing sector into the general rules of GATT 1994.  Thus 2004 will bethe last year of ATC implementation, following which the ATC and all restrictions thereunder shall
stand terminated on 1 January 2005, on which date the textiles and clothing sector shall be fully
integrated into GATT 1994.
The ATC specifies that the task of the TMB is to supervise the implementation of this Agreement, to
examine all measures taken under the Agreement an d their conformity therewith, and to take the
actions specifically required of it by the Agreement.  Several provisions of the ATC define specific
requirements vis-à-vis  the TMB regarding the kind of action to be carried out or taken by it when
examining the matters referred to it in the c ontext of the particular ATC provision invoked.
As a standing body, the TMB has to meet regularly.  Since the TMB was established by the ATC,
with the expiration of the Agreement the TMB will also cease to operate as from 1 January 2005.
In conformity with Article 8.11 of the ATC, the TMB is required to prepare and adopt, at the latest by
the end of July 2004, a comprehensive report on the implementation of the Agreement during the third
stage of the ATC integration process (2002-2004).  This comprehensive report has to be transmitted to
the Council for Trade in Goods and is designed to as sist the Council in the conduct of its third major
review of ATC implementation, due to be held in the autumn of 2004.
Main Activities
• Organize and prepare the meetings of the TMB, which is scheduled to meet on a monthly basis.
• Provide full support to TMB members and their alternates in the preparation, conduct and follow-up
of the TMB meetings (preparation of draft reports and background documents, etc.).
• Propose a detailed structural outline for the comprehensive report to be drawn up by the TMB.
Based on the discussions to be held during the respective meetings, prepare the draft of the entire
comprehensive report covering all developments related to ATC implementation during the period
starting 1 January 2002.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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• Process and circulate all documents related to the TMB's activities (notifications and other
communications received, reports adopted) to WTO Members for their information.
• Assist WTO Members in complying with their obligations arising from the ATC.
• Provide technical assistance, when required.
• Assist newly appointed TMB members and alternates in assuming their functions, inter alia , by
providing background documents and detailed briefings to them.
Expected Results
• By exercising its supervisory role in accordance with the provisions of the ATC, the TMB will
contribute to ensuring the full and timely implementation of the Agreement, resulting in the full
integration of the textiles and clothing sector on 1 January 2005 into the general rules and disciplinesof GATT 1994.
• Compliance with the requirements defined for the TMB by the ATC.  A thorough review of all
notifications and other communications addressed to the TMB.  The conduct of a detailed
examination of all matters, including possible disputes that may be referred to the TMB;  making the
necessary findings, observations and recommendations, as appropriate.  Adherence to the deadlines
specified by the ATC and preserving transparency on all matters related to the work carried out bythe TMB.
• Preparation, timely adoption and transmittal to the Council for Trade in Goods of the TMB's
comprehensive report on the implementation of the ATC during the third stage of the integration
process, with a view to assisting the Council in its major review to be conducted in the autumn
of 2004.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:  200.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Textiles Monitoring Body
Staffing
Ungraded 1
Other Staff 1
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 246,800
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
      COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 17,000
 - Other
TOTAL 263,800
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Trade and Environment Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• To provide efficient service to the Regular and Special sessions of the CTE in pursuing the work
programme agreed by Ministers.
• To promote a better understanding of WTO rules among environment officials, as well as in "civil
society".  This applies also to WTO rules as they relate to matters covered by, or under negotiations,
in MEAs.
• To provide technical assistance.
Background
The 1994 Ministerial Decision on Trade and Environment called for the establishment of a Committee on
Trade and Environment (CTE).  A broad based mandate was agreed upon for the CTE, consisting, in
short, of identifying the relationship between trade measures and environmental measures in order to
promote sustainable development, and of making appropriate recommendations on whether any
modifications of the provisions of the multilateral trade system are required.  With the aim of makingtrade and environment policies mutually supportive, the CTE regular work programme addresses a
number of specific issues, including the effect of environmental measures on market access and
environmental benefits of removing trade restrictions and distortions (win-win-win situations).
Additionally, paragraph 32 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration instructs the Committee to give particular
attention to selected items of the work programme.
The work of the CTE Special Sessions is mandated by paragraph 32 of the 2001 Doha Ministerial which
calls for negotiations on the relationship between existing WTO rules and specific trade obligations set
out in MEAs;  the procedures for regular information exchange between MEAs Secretariats and the
relevant WTO Committees, and the criteria for the granting of observer status;  the reduction or, as
appropriate, elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers to environmental goods and services.
Main activities
• Service the Chairs and Members of the Committee on Trade and Environment, special and regular
sessions.
• Provide Secretariat support to any relevant dispute panels.
• Provide technical assistance and information/advice to developing countries, LDCs and transition
economies, including through technical cooperation missions and side-events organized at MEA
meetings.
• Maintain dialogue with NGOs, academia and private sector on issues of mutual interest.
• Cooperate with the Secretariats of multilateral environment agreements as well as with relevant
IGOs, including participation in meetings they hold.
• Respond to a well of correspondence.
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Expected results
• To contribute to the implementation of the CTE Work Programme, including work mandated under
paragraph 37 of the Doha Declaration.
• To contribute to the successful outcome of negotiations on paragraph 31 of the Doha Declaration.
• Raise awareness on the links between trade, environment and sustainable development.
• Enhance dialogue between trade and environment policy makers.
• In general, facilitate consensus-building in a politically sensitive area.
Technical Barriers to Trade
Objectives
• Provide efficient service to the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade.
• To provide technical assistance.
Background
The TBT Agreement deals with standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures
on goods.  Increasingly, these measures are considered to be important non-tariff trade barriers.  TheAgreement aims at minimizing these obstacles to trade, and has been gaining increased attention from
WTO Members and private business.  Discussions on TBT related matters are being held in the TBT
Committee and other international and regional organizations.  Coordinate and co-operate with these
relevant organizations is essential.
Main activities
• Service the Chair and Members of the TBT Committee.
• Carry out the work programme on conformity assessment procedures and TBT-related technical
cooperation resulting from the Third Triennial Review.
• Assist in the implementation of the transparency procedures under the Agreement.
• Provide secretariat support to any relevant dispute panels.
• Maintain contacts with and attend meetings organized by relevant international and regional
organizations.
• Provide technical assistance to developing countries, LDCs and transition economies.
• Preparation of training tools related to the activities of the TBT Committee.
• Organize workshops, information sessions and symposia on TBT related matters (procedures for
information exchange, conformity assessment procedures).
• Service WTO senior management and provide expert technical advice to other WTO divisions.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Expected results
• Effective implementation and operation of the TBT Agreement.  Smooth functioning of the
Committee.
• Hopefully, reduced implementation problems in developing countries, and to facilitate market access
of their exports as a result of benefiting from the Agreement.
WTO and ILO
Objectives/Background
• As noted by Ministers at Singapore Ministerial meeting in 1999, "The WTO and ILO secretariats will
continue their existing cooperation".
Main Activities
• The Trade and Environment Division keeps track of relevant developments and attends ILO meetings
notably the ILO Governing Body, the annual conference and the Working Party on SocialDimensions of Globalization, as the agendas may relate to trade matters.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded from the regular budget; 1,600
- by staff funded from trust funds. 1,100.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Trade and Environment Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 9
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 1,234,000
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
      COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions *
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - ISO 57,000
 - Other
TOTAL 1,291,800
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Trade and Finance Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• Under the Doha mandate:  (Para 12) – address implementation problems faced by Members in the
areas of TRIMs and BOPs;  (Para 20) – achieve explicit consensus on modalities for negotiations
on Trade and Investment;  (Para 36) – conclude the examination of the relationship between trade,
debt and finance and make recommendations;  (Para 44) – strengthen and make more precise,
effective and operational the S&D provisions in the TRIMs and BOPs Agreements.
• Ensure the effective implementation of existing WTO rules and commitments on TRIMs and
BOPs, and conclude the Article 9 review of the TRIMs Agreement.
• Under the Marrakesh Coherence mandate, strengthen the contribution of the WTO to achieve
greater coherence in global economic policymaking.  Strengthen institutional cooperation
between the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank.
• Service dispute settlement panels and proceedings in the Division's areas of responsibility.
• Provide technical assistance and cooperation in the Division's areas of responsibility.
Background
Until Members provide further guidance on how they wish to proceed with the DDA in areas covered
by the Division, the work programme remains unchanged from 2003.
Main Activities
• Servicing the Doha Working Groups on the Relationship between Trade and Investment and on
Trade, Debt and Finance, and work on TRIMs and BOP issues under the Doha Work Programme.Decisions by Members on how they wish to proceed with these activities in 2004-05 will
determine how much of the Division's time and resources need to be devoted to them.
• Servicing the Committees on TRIMs and BOPs, and the CTG on TRIMs issues deriving from
Articles 5 and 9 of the TRIMs Agreement.
• Service dispute settlement panels and proceedings in the Division's areas of responsibility.
• Provide technical assistance and cooperation in the Division's areas of responsibility.
• Support for senior management and cooperation with other divisions.
• Cooperation with relevant international or ganizations, NGOs, and the private sector.
Expected Results
• Technically, it is possible to conclude all of the objectives related to the DDA and the
Article 9 review of the TRIMs Agreement within the budget period, as well as to
strengthen cooperation in several areas with the IMF and the World Bank in support ofthe DDA.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- with further work on Trade and Investment – 30 per cent
- without further work on Trade and Investment – 5 per cent.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Trade and Finance Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 7
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 987,200
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
      COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - ISO
 - Other
TOTAL 988,000
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Trade in Services Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• The Trade in Services division consists of 1 Director, 11 Professionals and 4 Secretaries.  During
periods of heavy work load, including the negotiations (e.g.  submission of offers, technical
assistance, preparation of background information and servicing panels) it is often necessary to
recruit temporary assistance to ensure the fulfilment of all the tasks required in a satisfactory
manner.  Frequent use of interns is also important for conducting work on basic research and
statistics.  Although professionals in the division have individual sectoral responsibilities, there is
an continuous exchange of information across sect ors and issues between professionals in order to
ensure the efficient and coherent functioning of the division.  So often this places additional
demand on the time of professionals in the division.
• The services negotiations will be in its fifth and sixth year.  The objectives of the division,
although will essentially be the same as in 2003, will probably place additional demand on the
division due to its entry into an advanced ph ase.  Negotiations on new commitments in all
services sectors as well as negotiations on services disciplines under the GATS including the
clarification of some aspects of the agreement itself.  will require the full mobilization of the
resources of the division.  The negotiations of commitments will take place under the aegis of the
Special Session of the Services Council, while other aspects of work under the GATS will take
place in the regular meetings of the Council and its subsidiary bodies.  It is also possible, giventhat the negotiations will eventually enter into  an advanced phase, that Members decide to
establish additional subsidiary bodies devoted to certain sectors (e.g.  telecommunications) or
specific issues (e.g.  mode 4).
• The Division will therefore continue to provide su pport for the Council for Trade in Services and
other bodies established under the GATS:
• The Committee on Trade in Financial Services;
• The Working Party on Domestic Regulation (in developing disciplines under Article VI:4);
• The Working Party on GATS Rules (in developing disciplines relating to Subsidies and
Government procurement of services, and on safeguards where the negotiations were prolongeduntil March 2004);
• The Committee on Specific Commitments;
• Any additional bodies set up under the Council;
• Any dispute settlement panels involving services.
In addition, the Division will also:
• Provide support for the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements in its work relating to
Article V of the GATS, and for Working Parties on Accession of new Members in relation to
services.
• Continue to participate actively in technical co-operation and other forms of public explanation of
the GATS, and to provide advice and assistance to Geneva delegations.
• Monitor the implementation of the GATS in terms of notifications and implementation of existing
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• Extend the Division's knowledge of specific service sectors and make available the services
database presently being developed.
• Providing continuous technical and legal advice to delegations in the process of the request/offer
negotiations.
• Provide support and briefing to senior management on all matters relating to services.
• Maintain and extend contacts with private sector organizations.
Background
With the start of the submission of initial offers on 31 March 2003, the new round of negotiations has
moved into a higher gear with the commencement of negotiations on market-access commitments.
This is expected to entail a substantially higher level of activity for the Division in the form of
assistance to delegations on the technicalities of scheduling and negotiating procedures generally.
The fact that the negotiations are taking place will also give rise to a higher level of interest in GATS
matters among service industries and the public;  this will generate even greater demand for theDivision's participation in technical assistance and other forms of public presentation of the issues at
stake.  Activity of this kind is already a very important part of the Division's work, since the GATS is
still a new agreement and not well understood in ma ny quarters.  Work with  NGOs and IGOs will also
continue to constitute an essential part of the division's work.
Main Activities
• The most important activity of the Division will co ntinue to be the servicing of the Council and all
other standing bodies.  Since negotiations will continue to be in progress, and probably moved tohigher gear, it may be expected that there will be a heavy focus on matters such as the technicalities
of scheduling and the classification of services.  It must also be expected that the heavy programme
of meetings, of all bodies, which has been followed in 2002 and 2003 will be maintained in 2004
and 2005.  It should be noted that in addition to the negotiations proper and its administration of thenormal function of the Agreement, the division is carrying out a very heavy programme of technical
assistance.
• Dispute panels will also need to be serviced by sectoral experts and legal professionals.
• The Division's second priority, in terms of the time and resources devoted to it, is and will continue to
be technical cooperation.  The opening of negotiations has already stimulated a higher level ofrequest for assistance missions and we must assume that demand will increase further.
• Contacts with service industries and with the public generally, to explain the GATS and the purposes
of the current negotiations, will also be an important activity, especially in view of the
misunderstanding, not to say hostility, manifested by some NGOs and commentators.
• The fact that services are supplied electronically on a very large and increasing scale means that
electronic commerce will continue to call upon the Division's resources.
Expected Results
• It is not expected that the services negotiations will be completed according to the original
deadline.  Therefore, no definitive results can be expected from this major element of theDivision's work in 2004.  In 2005, expectations would have to be reviewed in the light of the
overall situation.  Otherwise, results will rather take the form of significant progress in the
negotiations, and in particular the request/offer process.  So far, 38 offers have been submitted
and many more are expected once the negotiations are resumed.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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• The results of work in the area of technical assistance will take the form of fuller participation in
the negotiations and in all aspects of trade in services by developing countries, especially the
smaller and less developed among them.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
Based on experience in 2002 and 2003, we should budget for least 400 working days  (i.e.
3200 hours) of technical assistance, including travel and preparation time and lectures given in
Geneva.  This figure represents about 20 per cent  of the working time of 11 professionals and the
director.  As suggested above, the experience of the past two years may not be a wholly adequate
basis for planning, since the intensification of the negotiations is likely to generate additional demand.
The figure given above should therefore be considered as conservative.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Trade in Services Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 15
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 1,974,400
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
      COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 1,975,200
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Trade Policies Review Division
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• The Trade Policies Review Division (TPRD) is the Secretariat's functional arm for the Trade Policy
Review Mechanism and the focal point on matters related to the relationship between the WTO and
regional trade agreements (RTAs).
• Pursuant to Annex 3 of the WTO Agreement, TPRD prepares reports, and provides the Secretariat
for meetings of the Trade Policy Review Body, at which  Reviews of Members are carried out.
Under Annex 3, the Division also prepares the Director-General's Annual Overview of trade policy
developments, plays a significant role in the preparation of the WTO Annual Report and, in thecontext of the Review process, is increasingly involved in technical cooperation activities,
particularly in respect of the Integrated Framework.  Within this mandate the objective is to provide
Members with coherent, analytical reports that contribute to the smoother functioning of the
multilateral trading system , by achieving greater transparency in, and an understanding of, the trade
policies and practices of Members.
• The Division also services the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) and, for the
negotiations on RTA disciplines and procedures as mandated in the Doha Ministerial Declaration, the
Negotiating Group on Rules.  The objective is to revitalize work on regional trade agreements and on
their impact on the multilateral trading system .  In this context, with almost all Members now party
to a regional trade agreement, there is a growing synergy, particularly with respect to transparency,
between the Division's work on RTAs and trade policy reviews.
Background
Trade Policy Review:  With 146 Members, under the frequency requirements of Annex 3 of the
Uruguay Round, the TPRB should be doing Reviews of some 23 Members a year (counting the EU as
one).  The Division is not close to being able to meet this target;  moreover, resources were cut in
the 2003 budget.  Unlike in the past, Reviews have now become demand-driven, especially on the part
of lesser-developed countries, with Members increasingly viewing them as an important element in
their domestic policy-making process and the Membership seeing them as a necessary element in
understanding their trading partners and in appropriately structuring capacity-building and technical
assistance programmes, especially for the IF.  Fu rther, the Director-General's Annual Overview has
taken on added importance.  In this overall context, the Division is badly understaffed.  Thus, for 2004only 13 Review dates – covering at most 17 Members – have been scheduled (down from an average
of 16 dates in previous years, due to 2003 budget cuts).  Lost ground will need to be recovered - and
there is growing demand for this – in 2004-2006.  Reviews take 8-10 months to prepare, which means
that recovery will need to start in 2004 and continue  in 2005;  in addition, work will need to begin
in 2004 on the first Review of China, which will be difficult and resource-intensive, and in 2005 work
will start on the first Review of Chinese Taipei.  The "normal" pattern – given the frequency demands
under Annex 3 for Members reviewed at least on ce – for 2005 requires the review of 18 Members
(with Cyprus, Hungary and Poland "dropping-out" because of their accession to the EU) without
counting Members not previously reviewed;  there is a similar demand in 2006.  In 2005 this will
require at least 16 Review dates;  in 2006 at least  17 Review dates will be needed.  It is on these
overall considerations that the budget requests for 2004 and 2005 for TPRD's Review work are based.
Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs).  In consequence of both the growing number of RTAs and the
ongoing work and results in the Rules Group of the DDA, the RTA Section of TPRD is increasingly
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of the CRTA's agenda.  The Section has now been requested to prepare (on a trial basis) factual
reports - as per the TPRM mechanism - on two regional groupings.  It is also under constant demand
for technical assistance.  Present resources are not sufficient to these increased needs (demands).
Main Activities
• During 2004, the Division will be bringing the Reviews of the following Members (in
chronological order) to the TPRB:  United States, Gambia, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Singapore,
Benin/Burkina Faso/Mali, Belize/Suriname, European Union, Republic of Korea, Norway,
Jamaica, Brazil, Switzerland/Liechtenstein.
• In addition, the Division will be completing the documents for publication for some six members
reviewed in 2003;  will begin preparation for reviews in the first-half of 2004 of 10 otherMembers;  and will be preparing the Direct or-General's Annual Overview of trade policy
developments in 2004.
• As explained under "Background" a somewhat heavier programme, entailing at least 16 Review
dates, will need to be scheduled for 2005.
RTAs
• The CRTA will hold at least three meetings during 2003 and it is expected that the Negotiating
Group on Rules will meet at least five times in formal session.  For each of these meetings TPRD willready the necessary documentation.  It is anticipated that both Groups will request substantive papers
on systemic matters, and that material will need to be drafted for the Fifth Ministerial Conference of
the WTO.  On RTAs, the Division will also provide technical assistance to developing countries and
transition economies, almost all of which are stepping up their degree of involvement in regionalarrangements.
Expected Results
• Timely completion of the work programme.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded from the regular budget – about five man years;
- by staff fudned from trust funds – about six man years.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Trade Policies Review Division
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 33
Divisional Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 4,195,600
Temporary Assistance
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
      COSTS Communication and Building
Permanent Equipment
Expendable Equipment
Contractual Services
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
Missions*
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 800
 - Other
TOTAL 4,196,400
* Allocation for missions to be apportioned at a later date.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Appellate Body
Objectives and Work Programme for 2004-2005
Objectives
• assist the Appellate Body in considering appeals from panel reports and arbitrations pursuant to the
provisions of the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Go verning the Settlement of Disputes
(the "DSU") by providing highly-quality, efficient, independent advice and support;
• participate, as appropriate, in technical assi stance and other training activities of the WTO.
Background
The Appellate Body was established in 1995 pursuant to  Article 17:1 of the DSU.  The mandate of the
Appellate Body is to hear appeals from panel cases.  The Appellate Body is composed of seven persons
of recognized authority, with demonstrated expertise in law, international trade and the subject matter of
the covered agreements generally.  The membership of the Appellate Body is broadly representative of
membership in the WTO.  Persons  serving on the Appellate Body must be available at all times and on
short notice to hear appeals in Geneva.  Individua l Members of the Appellate Body are also called upon
to act as arbitrators under Article 21:3(c) of the DSU.
As of 24 October 2003, the Appellate Body had i ssued 56 Appellate Body Reports, 16 Arbitration
Awards and 1 Arbitration Report (where the par ties settled the matter between themselves).:
The DSU stipulates in Article 17:7 that the Appe llate Body "shall be provided with appropriate
administrative and legal support as it requires."  The staff of the Appellate Body  Secretariat provides this
support.  The Appellate Body Secretariat is composed  of one Director, ten la wyers, one administrative
assistant and three secretaries.  The staff is usually  assisted by two interns hired for three-month terms,
and, from time-to-time, by lawyers engaged on short-term contracts as workloads require.
Main Activities
• The Appellate Body Secretariat provides legal and administrative support to the Appellate Body
Members in considering appeals from panel cases and arbitrations referred to individual Appellate
Body Members.  In addition, the Appellate Body Secretariat participates actively in technicalassistance and other training activities of the WTO.
Expected Results
• The workloads for 2004 and 2005 are impossible to predict with any accuracy give that the number
of appeals and arbitrations depends entirely upon decisions of the WTO Members over which the
Appellate Body Secretariat has no control.  However, our best estimate for 2004, based on currentpanel activity and past rates of appeal, is 10 to 14 appeals and 2 to3 arbitrations.  For 2005, we
would estimate 10 appeals and 3 arbitrations.  The A ppellate Body Secretariat will provide legal and
administrative support to the Appellate Body in considering appeals and arbitrations.
• The Appellate Body Secretariat is regularly called upon to contribute to the technical assistance and
training activities of the WTO.  Based on past activities, it is expected that the staff of the Appellate
Body Secretariat will participate in about 25 t echnical assistance missions and training activities
in 2004 and 25 technical assistance and training activities in 2005.
Estimate of work hours per year allocated to technical assistance activities:
- by staff funded from the regular budget – approximately 500 work hours for 2004 and 2005;
- by staff funded from trust funds – approximately 3,500 work hours for 2004 and 2005.WT/BFA/SPEC/100
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Appellate Body
Staffing
Director 1
Other Staff 12
Budget
CHF PART SECTION
2004
A.  STAFF COSTS Work Years/Salary 2,325,500
Pensions and Common Staff Cost
Temporary Assistance 36,000
B.  ADMINISTRATIVE
      COSTS Communication and Building
 - Communications 6,500
 - Building Facilities 18,000
Permanent Equipment 23,000
Expendable Equipment 20,000
Contractual Services 15,000
C.  OTHER COSTS Staff Overhead Costs
 - Training 25,000
 - Insurance 9,000
 - Other 2,000
Missions 10,000
Various
 - Representation and Hospitality 1,000
 - Appellate Body Members 620,000
 - Library 8,000
 - Appellate Body Operating Fund 1,696,800
TOTAL 4,815,800
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