WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/BFA/W/115 
16 August 2004 
 (04-3212) 
Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration  
   
 
 
DIVISIONAL REPORTING ON OBJECTIVES AND EXPENDITURE 
 
2003 WT/BFA/W/115 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
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SENIOR MANAGEMENT--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3  
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL-----------------------------------------------------------------4  
ADMINISTRATION AND GENERA L SERVICES DIVISION ----------------------------------------5  
WTO CONDOMINIUM -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9  
ACCESSIONS DIVISION------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10  
AGRICULTURE AND COMMO DITIES DIVISION--------------------------------------------------- 13  
COUNCIL AND TNC DIVISION---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18  
DEVELOPMENT DIVISION--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20  
ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND STATISTICS AND LIBRARY DIVISION---------------------- 24  
TRADE INFORMATION CENTRE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 24  
EXTERNAL RELATION S DIVISION --------------------------------------------------------------------- 28  
INFORMATICS DIVISION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 32  
INFORMATION AND MEDIA RELATIONS DIVISION--------------------------------------------- 34  
INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING AND TEC HNICAL COOPERATION (ITTC) ------------------- 38  
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION --------------------------------------------------------------- 42  
LANGUAGE SERVICE AND DOCUMENTATION DIVISION------------------------------------- 46  
LEGAL AFFAIRS DIVISION-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 49  
MARKET ACCESS DIVISION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 53  
RULES DIVISION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62  
TECHNICAL COOPERATION AUDIT------------------------------------------------------------------- 67  
TEXTILES DIVISION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 70  
TEXTILES MONITORING BODY ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73  
TRADE AND ENVIRONM ENT DIVISION -------------------------------------------------------------- 76  
TRADE AND FINANCE DIVISION------------------------------------------------------------------------ 79  
TRADE IN SERVICES DIVISION-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 82  
TRADE POLICIES RE VIEW DIVISION ----------------------------------------------------------------- 85  
APPELLATE BODY AND ITS SECRETARIAT -------------------------------------------------------- 88  
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Senior Management  
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 2,312,000 2,180,715 131,285 
 Temporary Assistance 40,000 22,631 17,369 
     
B.  Administrative     
 Costs Permanent Equipment    
 Expendable Equipment    
 Contractual Services    
     
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs 0 1,875 (1,875) 
 Missions    
     Official 315,000 278,241 36,759 
     Technical Cooperation 115,000 34,758 80,242 
 Representation and     
     Hospitality 203,600 195,130 8,470 
     
     
Total  2,985,600 2,713,350 272,250 
 
* Including higher category staff. WT/BFA/W/115 
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Office of the Director-General
 
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 1,759,900 1,603,274 156,626 
 Temporary Assistance 200,100 52,533 147,567 
     
B.  Administrative     
 Costs Permanent Equipment 50,000 56,543 (6,543) 
 Expendable Equipment    
 Contractual Services    
     
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs 2,500 625 1,875 
 Missions    
     Official 160,000 213,861 (53,861) 
     Technical cooperation    
 Representation and     
     Hospitality 400 174 226 
     
     
Total  2,172,900 1,927,010 245,890 
 
* Including higher category staff.   WT/BFA/W/115 
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Administration and General Services Division  
  
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
   
A.  Work years* Salary 9,524,400 9,084,423 439,977 
Temporary Assistance 2,079,830 4,535,354 (2,455,524) 
   
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment 796,000 899,045 (103,045) 
Expendable Equipment 0 18,754 (18,754) 
Contractual Services    
    Office Automation 245,900 262,441 (16,541) 
   
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs 0 15,040 (15,040) 
Missions    
    Official 49,000 47,419 1,581 
    Technical Cooperation    
Representation and     
    Hospitality 1,200 1,193 7 
Miscellaneous    
    Training 430,000 345,024 84,976 
    Insurance    
    UN Bodies    
    
    
Total 13,126,330 15,208,693 (2,082,363) 
 
* Including higher category staff. WT/BFA/W/115 
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Administration and General Services Division
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
 
 (i) Ensure the efficient functioning of services in (a) all financial ma tters, including budget 
preparation and control, accounting, and payroll, (b) human resources matters, (c) logistical 
issues related to the physical facilities, and (d) missions and other travel arrangements: 
 
• Carried out and monitored the cash flow of the Organization including recording of all 
financial proceedings on a daily basis, and execute the monthly payment of salaries of approximately 850 staff members (regular and temporary) as well as the subsistence 
allowances of staff on missions.  Pensions and medical insurance premiums were 
collected and processed for the WTO Pensi on Plan and the Van Breda International 
respectively. 
 
• Insured and maintained as appropriate the Centre William Rappard, and replaced 
equipment, furniture as well as gene ral office supplies when necessary. 
 
• Received and processed:  (a) contributions  totaling CHF 138,928,973 from Member 
countries to the WTO 2003 operating budget, (b) assessed contributions totaling CHF 506,441 from Observer countries in respect  to the services received in 2003 from 
the Secretariat. 
 
• Received and processed the Extra-budgetary funds. 
 
• Prepared the (i) Director-General's B udgetary and Financial Report for 2003, 
(ii) Divisional Reporting on Objectives and Expenditures for 2003 and (iii) Report on 
Extra-Budgetary Funds for 2003. 
 
• Assisted the WTO External Aud itors in their auditing task. 
 
• Prepared the 2004-5 Budget Estimates based on the inputs from the various Divisions. 
 
• Managed efficiently the human resources:  (a) filled 21 external vacancies, and 
five internal vacancies, (b) developed, review and implemented personnel policies 
dealing with external mobility, maternit y/paternity/adoption leave and succession 
planning, (c) organized and implemented training programmes for the WTO staff, 
(d) administered approximately 850 regular,  fixed-term and shor t-term staff members 
and 75 interns on an ongoing basis – contr acts, remuneration, career development, 
entitlements, social security, cessation of servi ce, and counseling, (e) maintained close 
co-operation with the Staff Counselor, and (f) managed WTO-specific pensions 
arrangements – organizing regular meetings  of the Management Board of the WTO 
Pension Plan. 
 
(ii) Monitor the decentralization budget as well as the Extra-budgetary funds and provide timely 
information to Divisions: 
 
• Ensured that expenditures of the WTO S ecretariat and the Appellate Body and its 
Secretariat are effected in accordance with  the budget approved by the WTO Members. 
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• Ensured that the Extra-budgetary funds were  administered according to WTO financial 
regulations and rules and in compliance with  the terms and conditions agreed with the 
donors. 
 
• Issued, on a quarterly basis, the budget stat us report to all Divisions and provided 
clarification upon request from the latter. 
 
(iii) Ensure the smooth administrative functi oning of the Committee on Budget, Finance and 
Administration: 
 
• Organized 17 formal meetings and 3 info rmal meetings of the Committee on Budget, 
Finance and Administration, including prepara tion of agendas and related documents to 
be distributed to the meetings as well as reports of the meetings. 
 
(iv) Provide information to the Senior Manageme nt to ensure a smooth and efficient functioning 
of the Organization. 
 
• Provided information, as and when re quired, to the Senior Management. 
 
(v) Assure administrative and logistical suppor t for regional technical co-operation activities. 
 
• A total of 98 regional and sub regional technical  assistance activities were held in 2003.  
It was necessary to ensure that all administ rative, financial and logistical coordination 
was administrated as efficiently as possible in order to obtain the highest percentage rate of implementation on the WTO Technical Assistance Plan for 2003 possible.  
Meetings were held on a regular basis in orde r to better coordinate logistical services to 
be provided as well as to update the Unit on all aspects of follow-up and 
problem-solving for these Regional and Sub Regional Technical Assistance Activities. 
 
• The Human Resources provided an additional post to the Logistic Unit in 2003.  This 
new post permitted the Unit to cope in due form with all the TA activities programmed 
and undertaken during the year and, in add ition, to extend close cooperation with the 
ITTC, external Institutions, Secretariats a nd/or International Organizations involved 
directly in the accomplishment of the Technical Assistance Plan for 2003. 
 
• The Logistic Unit could ensure the efficient functioning of services in all administrative 
and financial matters;  the preparation of TA  budgets;  the preparation, control and 
necessary follow-up of each of the regional ac tivities;  the preparation and dispatch of 
air-tickets, documentation and publications per activity;  the logistical issues mainly 
related to the physical facilities such as ba nk matters, DSA and TE to be handed over to 
participants in the field directly when taking part in missions. 
 
• The Logistic Unit staff took part in 29 WTO Regional Activities in 2003.  Their 
presence was officially requested by both the Director of the ITTC and by the 
Divisional staff directly responsible for the WTO subjects.  Thanks to this policy 
practice, many administrative, financial as well as logistical issues were solved in the field directly and speakers could focus on their subject presentations only without being 
disturbed. 
 
• In addition to the current regional and sub regional technical assistance activities 
carried out in 2003, the Logistic Unit was al so involved in some of the administrative 
arrangements and issues regarding the 5
th WTO Ministerial Conference held in Cancún, 
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accommodation of the WTO staff that was wo rking during the event as well as to the 
travel arrangements, accommodation and the delivery of DSA and TE amounts for the Least-Developed Country Officials who were sponsored by the Mexican authorities and the WTO Secretariat. 
 
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WTO Condominium  
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 26,491,000 24,175,739 2,315,261 
Temporary Assistance 155,000 70,978 84,022 
   
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Communications 2,307,000 1,922,455 384,545 
Building Facilities 2,974,90 0 3,074,053 (99,153) 
Permanent Equipment 1,065,000 1,400,357 (335,357) 
Expendable Equipment 592,000 451,019 140,981 
Contractual Services    
(a) Reproduction 75,000 71,773 3,227 
(b) Office Automation 0 47,661 (47,661) 
(c) Other 321,000 300,354 20,647 
   
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs 1,858,700 2,467,688 (608,988) 
Missions    
    Official 9,550 9,378 172 
    Technical 0 198,463 (198,463) 
Trade Policy Training Courses 662,600 486,565 176,035 
Representation and     
    Hospitality 25,050 26,801 (1,751) 
Publications 0 192,611 (192,611) 
External Auditors 50,000 27,379 22,621 
Ministerial Operating Fund 400,000 1,190,981 (790,981) 
ITC 15,374,000 15,224,000 150,000 
Other 83,000 79,600 3,400 
Unforseen 100,000 0 100,000 
    
     
Total 52,543,800 51,418,454 1,125,346 
 
* Including higher category staff. 
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Accessions Division
 
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 1,180,900 1,098,332 82,568 
Temporary Assistance 10,000 21,290 (11,290) 
   
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment 2,000 1,959 41 
Expendable Equipment  138 (138) 
Contractual Services    
   
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
Missions    
    Official 6,000 5,908 92 
    Technical Cooperation    
Representation and     
    Hospitality 800 258 542 
Miscellaneous    
    
   
Total 1,199,700 1,127,885 71,815 
 
* Including higher category staff.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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Accession Division  
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
 
Objectives : 
 (i) Pursue and facilitate negotiations between  WTO Members and states/entities requesting 
accession to the WTO by encouraging their integr ation into the multilateral trading system 
through the effective liberalisation of their trade regimes in goods and services;  and  
 
(ii) 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; 
 (iii) More specifically, the Division's objectives for the year 2003 were threefold:  1) to 
substantially advance, and possibly concl ude, advanced LDCs' and small economies' 
accessions like Cambodia, Nepal, Samoa, and T onga;  2) to commence politically high-profile 
accessions such as the Lebanese Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other LDCs;  and to 
advance the so-called "big" accessions like the Ru ssian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Saudi 
Arabia, Viet Nam, and Algeria. 
 
Assessment
: 
 
• During 2003, 18 formal and 43 informal m eetings of accession Working Parties were 
held.  Twenty-seven Working Parties were  active.  Two of these concluded their 
mandate before the Cancún Ministerial Conf erence and we thus achieved a major target 
we set for ourselves in 2003.  Some 21 r ounds of bilateral nego tiations were arranged 
and a total of 334 accession documents were issued.  One new request for accession, 
from the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, was received and is pending action by the General Council (as are requests from Iran, Libya, and Syria).  The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia obtained the establishment of a Working Party to 
effectively start its accession negotiations.   
 
• Particular emphasis was put on accelerating the accession process of LDCs, thereby 
contributing to the effective implementati on of paragraphs 9 and 42 of the Doha 
Declaration.  The accessions of Cambodia a nd Nepal were concluded.  Their accession 
packages were adopted by Ministers in Cancún.  This made them the first two LDCs to complete their accession process under the procedures established in 1995.  The 
accession of Tonga was advanced to the c oncluding stage and is expected to be 
finalized in 2004.  The accession of Samoa has progressed well and it is hoped that it 
can be concluded early next year. 
 
• Very good progress was made in the accessi on processes of politically high-profile 
accessions such as the Lebanese Republic and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with 
particularly successful and productive mee tings, and accession negotiations of several 
LDCs, including Bhutan, Cape Verde, Sudan, and Yemen, were initiated. 
 
• Politically and economically important acce ssions, such as the Russian Federation, 
Ukraine, Belarus, Saudi Arabia, Viet Nam and Algeria were further advanced.  In 
particular, the accession process of Saudi Arabia has moved to the final stages and the accession of the Russian Federation gained a new impetus after the circulation of a 
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• Eight missions were undertaken by Accessi ons Division staff and direct technical 
assistance was provided from Geneva to a number of acceding countries to help them put together the required documentation and enhance the quality of documents submitted to the Working Party.  All wo rk related to accessions incorporates 
considerable elements of technical assistance, both in terms of detailed issues of a 
technical nature and policy guidance to the acceding governments. 
 
• The Division was involved in the work of the Sub-Committee on LDCs related to 
accession.  It provided regular updates to  the Sub-Committee on progress achieved in 
the individual LDCs' accessions. 
 
• In parallel to the discussions held in th e Sub-Committee on LDCs, a new strategy was 
implemented in cooperation with Members to effectively accelerate the accession 
process of LDCs.  A greater emphasis was put  on informal meetings and consultations 
in order to reduce the number of Working Party meetings (i.e. Cambodia, Nepal, 
Samoa, and Tonga) and it was agreed that action plans including clear and detailed technical assistance requirements would be incl uded in the draft Working Party Report.   
 
• Six meetings of the Informal Group on Accessions were held in order to prepare for 
Working Party meetings.  Members were presented with a consolidated calendar of accession meetings for approval and given the opportunity to informally discuss 
strategies to be followed with regard to some  accessions.  Preparation for this process 
required consultations with members and acceding governments on an almost daily basis.  The process has been welcomed by WTO Members and acceding governments.   
 
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Agriculture and Commodities Division  
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 2,135,700 2,056,958 78,742 
Temporary Assistance 12,800 3,069 9,731 
   
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment 9,000 8,454 546 
Expendable Equipment - 292 (292) 
Contractual Services    
   
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
Missions    
    Official 35,000 29,544 5,456 
    Technical Cooperation - - - 
Representation and     
    Hospitality 800 0 800 
    
   
Total 2,193,300 2,098,317 94,983 
 
* Including higher category staff.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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Agriculture and Commodities Division
 
  Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003
 
 (i) To give effective assistant, as required a nd appropriate, in all matters related to the 
negotiations on agriculture under the Doha Development Agenda. 
 
• The negotiations on agriculture  are conducted by Special Sessions of the Committee on 
Agriculture.  Between January and July 20 03 five formal meetings of the Special 
Session were held.  Each of these meetings was preceded by an informal Special 
Session and consultations both between Members and at the request of the Chairman.  
Throughout the year the Chairman also held many informal consultations on specific issues to which different groups of participan ts, and in many cases all participants, were 
invited.  From July onwards the negotiations were continued at the level of the General 
Council. 
 
• Related work covered a wide range of activities including;  advice and briefing for the 
Chairman and delegations on procedural and s ubstantive matters;  preparation of papers 
used as guides by Members in consultations;  preparation of technical papers and 
non-exhaustive outlines used as guides by Me mbers in meetings and consultations;  
reports of meetings (TN/AG/R/6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 10/Corr.1);  preparation of draft Chairman's reports to the Trade Negotiations Committee;  and preparation and 
circulation of informal and formal documents submitted by Members.  In addition to 
organising the formal and informal Special Se ssions and the consultations, the Division 
assisted the Chairman in preparing the first and the revised first Draft of Modalities (TN/AG/W/1 and Rev.1) as well as his report to the Trade Negotiations Committee on the state-of-play in the negotiations (TN/AG/10 and Corr.1.).   
 
• In the preparations for the 5
th Ministerial Conference the Division assisted the 
Chairman of the General Council in his c onsultations on agriculture and in the 
preparation of the related sections of the dr aft Ministerial Declaration.  At Cancún the 
Division worked closely with the facilitato r for agriculture.  Two sessions of the 
working group on agriculture and over 25 othe r meetings and consultations between the 
facilitator and individual delegations and grou ps of delegations were held.  The input 
received during the meetings of the agriculture working group and from the consultations were used to prepare the ag riculture sections of the revised draft 
Ministerial Declaration (JOB(03)/150/Rev.2) .  After Cancún the Division continued to 
provide briefing on the negotiations to the Chairman of the General Council and senior 
staff of the Secretariat in their efforts to get the negotiations moving again and assisted 
in the preparations for and conduc t of the related consultations. 
 (ii) To actively contribute to the effective implementation of the existing WTO rules and 
commitments on agriculture, assist in enhanci ng the quality of implementation, and ensure 
that the work of the Committee on Agriculture in all areas, including in particular the process 
of multilaterally reviewing the implementati on of the commitments, is organized and 
conducted in an efficient manner. 
 
• In 2003, the Division serviced, in close co -operation with the Chair, four regular 
meetings of the Committee on Agriculture.  The activities included advice to the Chairman and delegations concerning all aspec ts of the work of the Committee;  the 
preparation of a revised Secretariat background paper for the purposes of the 
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processing and issuing of 184 agriculture notifications by Members;  the preparation of room documents and other Committee-related documents and four summary reports of 
the Committee meetings;  drafting of Chairman  statements;  preparation of the annual 
report of the Committee, as well as the report to the CTG in the context of China's 
Transitional Review Mechanism.  The Division participated in and contributed to a 
series of informal consultations on implem entation under the auspices of the General 
Council, including drafting of a report to the General Council concerning the follow-up 
to the relevant Doha recommendations on im plementation-related issues.  The Division 
assisted in organizing informal consultati ons and drafted a report to the General 
Council in the context of Special and Differe ntial Treatment proposal  referred to the 
Committee by the Chairman of the General Council. 
 (iii) To actively contribute to the effective impl ementation of the Agreement on the Application of 
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, addressi ng in particular the difficulties faced by 
developing countries. 
 
• In 2003, the Division serviced three regul ar meetings of th e SPS Committee, one 
special meeting and eight informal meetings.  The Division prepared texts to clarify different paragraphs of the Decision on the Implementation of Article 4;  one 
clarification was adopted by the Committee in 2003 and another should be adopted in 
March 2004.  The Division also prepared a decision to extend the provisional procedure to monitor the process of international ha rmonization, and the fifth annual report on the 
implementation of the procedure, both of which were adopted by the SPS Committee in 
June 2003.   
 
• The Division organized a special meeting on the operation of national SPS enquiry 
points.  To ensure the meeting addressed the real needs of Members, the Division 
circulated a questionnaire to all national e nquiry points and notification authorities.  
Appropriate speakers were invited, and the Di vision made a presentation on the relevant 
provisions of the SPS Agreement and on the replies to the questionnaire. 
 
• The Division revised its document summarizing all specific trade concerns raised in the 
Committee, a substantive and popular document which illustrates the use of the Committee as a practical way to resolve trad e problems.  Other documents prepared by 
the Secretariat included reports on the im plementation of special and differential 
treatment, on China's transitional review, and on the operation of the Standards and 
Trade Development Facility, 850 SPS notifica tions (including corrigenda, addenda and 
revisions);  and several other Committee documents. 
 
• In the framework of the Division's on- going working relationship with the SPS 
referenced standards organizations (OIE, IPPC and Codex), the Division has actively 
participated at annual meetings of these organizations in Rome and Paris, as well as at a 
number of regional meetings throughout the year. 
 (iv) To support, as required, the implementation of the Ministerial Decision on Measures 
Concerning the Possible Negative Effects of the Reform Programme on Least-Developed and 
Net Food-Importing Developing Countries.   
 
• The Division assisted in the annual mon itoring exercise of the Decision by the 
Committee on Agriculture, including by produc ing an updated paper on actions taken to 
implement the Decision which served as the basis for this exercise.  On several occasions, it provided advice to Members related to the implementation of the Decision.  
The Division also advised several Member s considering their application to the WT/BFA/W/115 
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Committee on Agriculture to be listed as a net food-importing developing country.  The Division organized an Inter-agency roundtable  with the participation of the World 
Bank, the IMF, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the FAO, 
UNCTAD and the World Food Programme to  explore the need for establishing a 
multilateral safety net to assist least-de veloped and net food- importing developing 
countries.  This work included, inter alia , advice to the Chair and the panellists and 
drafting of the report on the roundtable.  In the context of the follow-up to the implementation of the Ministerial Decision, the Division assisted in the drafting of the Chairman's periodic progress reports to the General Council.   
 
(v) To provide effective and effi cient services for dispute settlement  in the area of agriculture. 
 
• The Division provided the Secretary to, and assisted otherwise, the panels on European 
Communities- Export Subsidies on Sugar (complaints by Australia, Brazil and Thailand), Japan - Apples (complaint by the United States), Australia - Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (complaint by the Philippines) and Australia - Quarantine Regime 
(complaint by the European Communities).  Th e Division also assisted in the dispute on 
European Communities - Measures affecting the approval and marketing of biotech products (complaints by Argentina, Canada and the United States) and United States  
– Subsidies on Upland Cotton (complaint by Brazil). 
 vi) To provide technical assistance and cooperation. 
 
• The Division complied with the WTO 2003 Technical Assistance Plan.
1  Additionally, 
the Division responded to numerous specifi c requests from Geneva-based delegations 
and capitals for technical assistance, in cluding on transparency issues under the 
Agreements on Agriculture and SPS and on sp ecific implementation problems in the 
areas of market access, domestic support, export competition and SPS.  It also 
responded to requests for technical assistance on fishery issues.  It made a series of  
presentations in the framework of the WTO Trade Policy Courses (both in Geneva and, 
on SPS issues, at a course organized in Kenya) and the Geneva Week.  The Division organized a special meeting on the effective implementation of the SPS transparency provisions in the margins of the Octobe r 2003 SPS Committee meeting.  The Division 
has also provided input (analytical and speakers) to a number of SPS training courses 
organized by bilateral donors and national agencies. 
 
• The Division provided the Secretariat to the Standards and Trade Development Facility 
(STDF), established in 2002 to improve the co-ordination of technical assistance and capacity-building activities among FAO, OIE, WHO, World Bank and the WTO.  The overall objective of the STDF is to strengthen the capacity of developing countries to 
meet international standards.  The Division oversaw the preparation of two project 
proposals put forward by the WTO for possible funding under the STDF.  In its role as Secretariat to the STDF, the Division ma naged the development of a web site, a 
database on SPS-related technical assistance, contacts with potential donor agencies, and the revision and finalization of vari ous proposals submitted by other partner 
organizations and by the public.   
 
                                                     
 
1 WT/COMTD/W/95/Rev.3.  Two national SPS activitie s (Moldova and the Maldives) were postponed 
until 2004 at the request of the governments concerned. 
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(vii) To support senior management and other Divisi ons in matters related to trade in agriculture, 
forestry and fisheries products.   
 
• As every year, significant resources had to be devoted to support of senior management 
and the work of other Divisions (numerous br iefings;  many substantive inputs into and 
comments on documents prepared by other Divisions;  participation in internal 
meetings;  administrative matters;  etc.). 
 (viii) To co-operate, as appropriate, with releva nt international organizations, non-governmental 
organizations and other representatives of the private sector. 
 
• Throughout the year, the Division received many visitors and responded to requests for 
briefings, factual information, etc. fro m other intergovernmental organizations, 
parliamentarians, non-governmental organiza tions, representatives of farm and fishery 
communities and agro-industries and other privat e sector entities.  It participated in, and 
made presentations at 58 international mee tings, conferences or workshops (it turned 
down approximately 85 invitations, in many cases for lack of staff and/or financial 
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Council and TNC Division
 
  
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 1,530,900 1,512,618 18,282 
Temporary Assistance 1,600 38,168 (36,568) 
   
B.  Administrative     
 Costs Permanent Equipment    
Expendable Equipment    
Contractual Services    
    Office Automation    
    
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
 Missions    
    Official 10,500 10,426 74 
    Technical Cooperation    
Representation and    
    Hospitality 800 216 584 
    
   
Total 1,543,800 1,561,428 (17,628) 
 
* Including higher category staff. 
 
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Council and TNC Division  
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
  
(i) To ensure efficient management of all meeti ngs (regular, informal or special sessions, plus all 
associated consultations) of the General Counc il, the Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC), 
and the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), includi ng all tasks related to the preparation and 
conduct of such meetings and c oordination of follow-up activities. 
 
• This objective was fully realized with the m eetings and associated processes of all three 
bodies proceeding efficiently.  In addition, the Division continued to share in the servicing of the Special Sessions of the DSB.  In 2003, the Division organized, serviced and followed up on 7 formal General C ouncil meetings, including a meeting on 
Coherence in Global Economic Policymaking organized together with the Trade and 
Finance Division;  three dedicated discu ssions under the auspices of the General 
Council on cross-cutting issues in electronic-co mmerce;  six formal and two informal 
open-ended meetings of the TNC;  22 formal meetings of the DSB;  and nine formal 
and informal meetings of the DSB Special Session.  The General Council and TNC, in 
particular, also required many hours of sm aller informal consu ltations, which were 
serviced by the C-TNC Division.   
 
(ii) To ensure smooth running and timely completi on of substantive preparations for Sessions of 
the Ministerial Conference;  organize and run formal and working sessions at the Conference;  and co-ordinate Secretariat follow-up work stem ming from decisions taken at the Conference. 
 
• While the substantive results of the Canc ún conference were disappointing, there was 
widespread recognition that both the prepar atory process and the management of the 
conference were conducted efficiently, and th at the issues before Ministers were well 
prepared.  It is also noteworthy that Member s expressed a high level of satisfaction with 
the transparency and inclusiveness of the pr ocess.  Working with the Chairman of the 
General Council and the DG, as well as with  the Chairman of the Conference, the 
Division was responsible for the planning , co-ordination and management of the 
substantive preparatory work, as well as contri buting to the logistic preparation through 
participation in the Task Force.  After Cancún the Division worked closely with the 
General Council Chairman to fulfil the manda te he had been given by Ministers.  
Estimated total time spent in servicing inform al consultations related to the Ministerial 
Conference preparations and follow-up in 2003 was around 200 hours (this does not 
include time spent on preparation of these consultations). 
 (iii) To provide a high level of advice and support to  the Director-General and the Chairmen of the 
three WTO bodies above (and other members of se nior management) in connection with their 
responsibilities in these areas, including organizing and servicing consultation processes 
undertaken by them. 
 
• The Division continued to meet this obj ective to the satisfaction of the senior 
management and Chairs, contributing (in add ition to its regular work and the Cancún 
preparatory processes) inputs for use in informal ministerial gatherings and 
accompanying senior management to such meetings.   
 
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Development Division
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 742,300 724,504 17,796 
Temporary Assistance 26,600 97,716 (71,116) 
   
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment    
Expendable Equipment    
Contractual services    
    Office Automation 1,000 646 354 
   
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
Missions    
    Official 15,000 2,922 12,078 
    Technical Cooperation    
Representation and     
    Hospitality 800 - 800 
Miscellaneous    
    GTAP/Sponsoring    
    Other    
    
   
Total 785,700 825,788 (40,088) 
 
* Including higher category staff. 
 
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Development Division  
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
 
  Even though the existing "Development Divisi on" was created in March 2003, this report on 
the fulfilment of divisional objectives and work pr ogramme covers the full calendar year, since all 
bodies serviced by the new division already existed on 1 January 2003.  Moreover, the 'development' part of the objectives for 2004-2005 as set out in document WT/BFA/SPEC/100 remained applicable 
for the responsibilities entrusted to the Division in 2003.  
Assessment
 
 
• The Doha Ministerial Declaration places considerable emphasis on the development 
dimension of international 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 area is to facilitate that appropriate 
dialogue take place on all aspects of the deve lopment dimension, thereby ensuring that 
the needs and priorities of developing a nd least-developed countries receive adequate 
attention.  In fulfilment of these objectives the Division, which is  the focal point for 
development policy matters within the WTO,  serviced and facilitated meetings of the 
following WTO bodies: 
 
• Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) in Regular Session. 
• 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 Least-Developed Countries (LDCs)  
• Integrated Framework Working Group (IFWG)  
• Integrated Framework Steering Committee (IFSC) 
• Three other groups of WTO Members (the Informal Group of Developing 
Countries, the LDC Consultative Group and the African Group) 
 
• The CTD held four formal and two informal meetings in 2003, during which it received 
notifications regarding market access for developing and least-developed countries and 
continued its work related to technical coopera tion and training.  It also considered the 
report of the Joint Advisory Group on the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO;  
the declining terms of trade for primary co mmodities, and its implication to trade and 
development of primary commodity exporting countries;  the developmental aspects of having sustainable development appropriately reflected in the negotiations;  notification 
procedures for regional trade agreements  among developing countries;  and the 
development dimension of electronic commerce .  Regular contacts were kept with 
delegations, particularly developing country delegations, and with the other Divisions 
involved in the work of the CTD;  all of which helped to move the work forward.   
 
• In addition to a large number of inform al meetings, the Special Session of the 
Committee on Trade and Development met form ally only once.  These meetings were 
devoted to carrying forward the work programme on Special and Differential (S&D) 
treatment as mandated in paragraph 44 of th e Doha Ministerial Declaration.  After 
lengthy and protracted consultations, Members were able to agree to make recommendations for possible adoption on a package of 28 proposals which are contained in Annex C of the draft Cancún Mini sterial text.  However, these have yet to WT/BFA/W/115 
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be adopted by Members and it is expected that work on these issues will continue in 2004.  Even then the dedicated work carri ed out in the Special Session has helped to 
further the overall debate on the importance of  trade and development and the need to 
help developing countries integrate into th e multilateral trading system.  Accordingly, 
this work has been an important elem ent of the Doha Development Agenda. 
 
• The Committee on Trade and Development met formally three times in Dedicated 
Sessions to consider the specific concerns and proposals relating to small economies.  
In the run-up to the Fifth Ministerial Conference, Members considered and finalised their report to the Ministerial Conference.   In the meeting held after the Fifth 
Ministerial Conference, Members discussed how to proceed with the specific proposals 
made by the proponents.  It was then suggested that the proponents review their 
proposals in light of the comments they had received from other Members.  The issue of land-locked developing economies was also raised at this meeting.  Work therefore 
continues on the preparation of specific tr ade-related proposals which Members believe 
may address some of the concerns of small economies. 
 
• The Working Group on Trade and transfer of Technology held three formal sessions 
in 2003.  During the course of the year a number of submissions were made to the Working Group as part of its examination of the relationship between trade and transfer 
of technology.  Members also discussed a b ackground paper prepared by the Secretariat 
containing case studies relating to the relationshi p of trade and transfer of technology.  
Discussions were also held on the elemen ts of the Working Group's report to the 
General Council for reporting the progress of work to the Ministers at Cancún.  The 
deliberations of the Working Group have he lped to improve Members understanding of 
some of the critical issues and impediments to  the transfer of appropriate technology to 
developing countries. 
 
• The LDC Unit which was established in Februa ry 2003 as a focal point for all issues of 
interest to the LDCs was very quickly up and running.  The LDC unit has contributed to 
achieving the results which the Division had set itself, focusing specifically on the least-developed countries.  The Sub-Committee on LDCs met four times during the year and continued the implementation of the WTO Work Programme for LDCs.  It considered the following issues:  accessi on of LDCs;  market access for LDCs;  
enhancing the participation of  LDCs in the multilateral trading system;  trade-related 
technical assistance and capacity building initiatives for LDCs;  and mainstreaming the 
trade-related elements of the LDCS-III Progra mme of Action into the WTO's work.  In 
particular, the adoption of the WTO Work Pr ogramme for LDCs was an important step 
in responding to the LDC specific issues a nd concerns, and it will go a long way in 
assisting LDCs' integration into the multilateral trading system and the global economy. 
 
• As the IF Secretariat, the LDC Unit has played the central and coordinating role within 
the IF community and for all IF related ac tivities.  The IF Working Group held three 
formal meetings and one informal meeti ng.  The IF Steering Committee held three 
formal meetings during this period.  A meeti ng of the Heads of Agencies partners in the 
IF was also organized.  With the increase in exposure and in terest in the IF, the work 
and scope of the IF Secretariat has increased.  Indeed, one of the recommendations 
coming out of the major evaluation of the IF which took place in 2003 was the need to strengthen the IF Secretariat in light of th e expansion of the IF to additional LDCs, 
accompanied by increased IF activities and the need for greater coordination with the 
other involved organisations.  Clearly the IF has played an important role in helping 
some of the LDCs maximise the gains from the international trading system and in 
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• The Division also facilitated the meetings of (i) the Informal Group of Developing 
Countries, which met a few times;  (ii) th e African Group which on average met twice a 
week;  and (iii) the LDC Consultative Group which on average met every week.  In addition, the Division organised two 'Geneva Weeks' during which non-resident WTO 
Members and Observers were briefed on the state of play of work in the WTO 
including the preparations for the Cancún Ministerial Conference.  The Division's 
efforts in organising the Geneva Weeks helped mitigate some of the special challenges faced by the non-residents and were an importa nt step in enhancing their participation 
in the work of the WTO. 
 
• The Division provided regular reports and brie fs to senior management on issues within 
its responsibilities and as requested from time to time.  In addition, the division advised 
staff of missions to the WTO on issues within its responsibility.  Staff of the Division also represented the WTO at a numbe r of meetings organised by other 
inter-governmental organizations, includi ng the United Nations Conference on Trade 
and Development (UNCTAD), regional commissions of the United Nations, 
Organization for Economic Co-operation a nd Development (OECD), the World Bank, 
regional banks, where issues relating to tr ade and development were on the agenda.   
 
• The officers of the Division also carried out a large number of technical cooperation 
missions on trade and development issues as well as those related to the IF.  In all, 
26 such missions were carried out.  In add ition, the divisional officers provided inputs 
to a number of WTO training courses, both in Geneva and outside.  The divisional 
officers also participated in the first Tr ade Policy Clinic and in two Ministerial 
Meetings:  at Cancún and the LDC Trade Ministers meeting in Bangladesh.  It is also noteworthy that the Division prepared an e xhaustive brochure, diffe rent posters and a 
flash animation on the Integrated Framework, which was displayed at Cancún. 
 
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Economic Research and Statistics and Library Division
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 6,192,700 5,975,817 216,883 
Temporary Assistance 388,850 586,485 (197,635) 
    
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment 0 8,942 (8,942) 
Expandable Equipment    
Contractual Services    
    Office Automation 55,750 35,169 20,581 
   
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
Missions    
    Official 32,900 37,430 (4,530) 
    Technical Cooperation    
Representation and     
    Hospitality 800 0 800 
Miscellaneous    
      Library 581,900 564,348 17,552 
     UN Bodies    
     
   
Total 7,252,900 7,208,192 44,708 
* Including higher category staff. 
 
Trade Information Centre2 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 127,300 125,710 1,590
Temporary Assistance 2,000 46,161 (44,161)
 
B.  Administrative   
 Costs Permanent Equipment 30,500 1,607 28,893
Expendable Equipment  
  
C.  Other Costs Contractual Services 
  (b) Office Automation 18,090 
8,008 10,082
Missions  
    Official 2,250 2,245 5
Representation and  
    Hospitality 550 549 1
 Total 180,690 
184,279 (3,590)
* Including higher category staff. 
                                                      
2 Disbanded by the Director-General with effect from 27 October 2003. WT/BFA/W/115 
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Economic Research and Statistics and Library Division  
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
 
 Objectives
: 
 
Research functions 
 (i) To carry out work on the Doha Developmen t Agenda and maintain the continuing activities 
on development-related activities falling under the responsibility of the Committee on Trade 
and Development; ensure that the mandated work  on development-related activities within the 
framework of the WTO is carried out in accordance with the wishes of the Members. 
 
(ii) To provide the necessary background research and analysis on development-related issues in 
order to advance the Agenda in this area, incl uding in support of the work of other Divisions. 
 (iii) To carry out other research and analysis as required to meet the analytical needs of the WTO 
in the economic field. 
 Statistics functions 
 
(i) To provide within its regular programmes, timely, high-quality trade and related statistics, 
technical support and advice 
 
(ii) To support tariff negotiations 
 (iii) To implement WTO policies on Technical Assistance and Capacity Building   (iv) To improve internationa l co-operation and collaboration 
 Library services 
 
(i) To give greater access to the WTO Library and related web services.  (ii) To give the WTO Library a higher profile through an external Internet window. 
 
(iii) To improve the physical space, as there had been no renovations since 1977, with a view to 
providing a physical environment that responded to the current needs and number of users. 
 Realisation of Objectives and Work Programme for 2003
 
 
• The merging of the research, statistical a nd library services into the Economic Research 
and Statistics Division in 2003 has led to cl oser working relations among these three 
functions, building on synergies where a ppropriate and improved services for other 
parts of the Secretariat and the membership at large. 
 
• The Research Group in the Division, with the collaboration of the st atisticians, has been 
closely involved in launching an important new WTO publication, the World Trade 
Report.  This major report, which is now th e WTO's flagship report, has been widely 
acclaimed as a new and useful departure for the WTO Secretariat.  The researchers in the Division have continued to contribute other publications through its working paper WT/BFA/W/115 
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series, discussion papers and special studies.  The Research Group provided background research and analysis to negotia ting groups and other bodies, including the 
Negotiating Group on Non-Agricultural Market Access and the Committee on Trade and Development.  The Research Group has al so provided background analytical work 
for two dispute settlement cases, and con tinues to provide regular briefings upon 
request to the Office of the Director-General. 
 
• The Research Group has also worked clo sely with the Institute for Training and 
Technical Co-operation in developing outreach programmes with academics from developing countries.  These activities have included joint teaching, research networking and some joint research projects.  Output from these projects is being 
completed in 2004. 
 
• The Research Group has continued to mainta in close relationships with universities 
world-wide and with the research community in other organisations, including international organisations. 
 
• Within its regular programme of work , the Statistics Group has compiled and 
disseminated timely and high-quality trade a nd trade-related statistics for the annual 
Press Release on trade trends and developmen ts and for the World Trade Report. The 
Statistics Group also published the World Trade Statistics report.  The Group has also supported negotiating groups, in  particular the Negotiating Group on Non-Agricultural 
Market Access and the Special Session of the Committee on Agriculture, and has also 
responded to the statistical needs of several other bodies.  Applied tariffs and imports 
data in the CTS and IDB databases were regularly updated and disseminated via the 
Internet and CD-ROM to Members.  Th e Statistics Group continues to provide 
substantive support for the work of the Committee on Market Access, among other 
things, in an effort to improve the coverage  and quality of trade and trade policy data. 
 
• In the field of technical assistance and capacity-building, the Statistics Group has 
undertaken six regional workshops, covering most of the WTO's developing country 
membership.  These workshops have dealt with technical issues relating to IDB 
notifications and the use of IDB and CTS data  and software.  Enhanced versions of the 
IDB Internet Analysis Facility software, c ontaining additional repor ts and data export 
options, were developed and di sseminated to Members.  The development of a portable 
version of IAF has been further advanced. 
 
• The Statistics Group convened the Inter-A gency Task Force on International 
Merchandise Trade Statistics, and collaborat ed with other international agencies in 
compiling common data.  The Statistics Group has also participated in the Inter-Agency Task Force on International Trade in Serv ices, which seeks to improve statistics on 
trade in services.  The Group also continues to work on the Millennium Development 
Goal Indicators in co-operation with UNC TAD and the ITC.  The Group is also 
working with these two agencies to bu ild a common analytical database. 
 
• The Library has succeeded in providing great er access to users of the WTO library and 
related web services.  This has been done th rough enhanced bibliographic records, the 
further development of collections, prepara tion of bibliographies, and the establishment 
of new Internet links relevant to the curren t needs of the WTO.  The development of an 
external Internet window, which is inte nded to contribute to communication with 
governments, universities, academic organisati ons, and civil society, has been delayed 
due to resource constraints.  This importa nt project will continue as funds become 
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resource constraints, but some renovation work  has been undertaken.  Delays have also 
occurred in the installation of new shelving for the growing collection of books and of 
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External Relations Division
 
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 1,129,600 1,091,974 37,626 
Temporary Assistance 86,800 101,059 (14,259) 
   
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment 1,500 0 1,500 
Expendable Equipment    
Contractual Services    
    Office Automation 15,000 0 15,000 
   
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
Missions    
    Official 22,000 21,623 377 
    Technical Cooperation    
Representation and     
    Hospitality 800 800 0 
UN and Other Bodies    
    
   
Total 1,255,700 1,215,456 40,244 
 
* Including higher category staff. 
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External Relations Division  
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
  
(i) Stated Objective:  Continue to expand an d intensify relations with Non-Governmental 
Organizations (NGOs) as well as with Par liamentary Organizations, Parliaments and 
Parliamentarians. 
 
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs
): 
 
• Public Symposium:  A major 3-day symposium with some 700 participants from around 
the world was held at the WTO from 16 to 18 June.  Entitled "Challenges Ahead on the Road to Cancún", the symposium featured 22 work sessions, six of which were organized by the WTO and 16 by NGOs on topics of their choice.   
• Regional outreach activities:  Co-organized with civil society;  one institutional 
workshop in April in Geneva involving NGOs fro m different regions in the world;  and 
one regional workshop in May in Cape To wn, South Africa, for NGO representatives 
from the southern Africa region. 
• Numerous meetings between the DG and NGOs, both in Geneva and abroad, were 
prepared or participated in.   
• Organization of visits/meetings of NGO re presentatives and groups to WTO:  over 
100 visits took place, either bilateral or involving other Secretariat officials.   
• NGO briefings:  Ten regular NGO briefings we re organized on meetings of the TNC 
and the General Council. 
• WTO Introduction Days:  Geneva-based NGOs c ontinued to be invite d and participated 
actively in the two WTO Introduction Cour ses that were organized in 2003.   
• Participation in external seminars/workshops /symposia:  over 40.  This number does not 
include participation of other Secretaria t colleagues in similar external events. 
• WTO's monthly electronic news bulletin for NGOs has been replaced by a bi-weekly 
electronic WTO Update, further facilitating access to WTO information.   
• Numerous daily contacts:  information flows from and to NGOs through e-mail, 
telephone and fax. 
Relations with Parliaments and Parliamentarians
: 
 
• Successfully launched an outreach programme under the WTO Technical Assistance 
Plan.  Programme included specific activities for parliamentarians, notably regional workshops in Cape Town in May (for English-speaking African countries), Trinidad in July (for Caribbean countries), and Sao Paolo in August (for Latin American countries).  Published a major report in December on th e Cape Town and Trinidad workshops.  
Conducted national workshops for parliament arians in St Lucia (August), Namibia 
(November) and Moldova (November). 
• Deepened contacts with key parliamentary gr oupings, including the Inter-Parliamentary 
Union (IPU) and Commonwealth Parliame ntary Association (CPA), through 
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• Prepared and/or participated in meetings involving the Director-General, his deputies 
and parliamentarians (bot h in Geneva and in capitals):  assisted the Deputy 
Director-General's participation in the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO in Geneva in February;  assisted the Direct or-General's address to the WTO Symposium 
session on 'Parliaments and the WTO' in Geneva in June. 
• Prepared WTO's involvement in the IPU/ EP Parliamentary Conference on the WTO in 
Cancún in September.  This event included more than 300 parliamentary participants 
from throughout the globe.  WTO involvement included direct participation and delivery of a statement by the Director-General.  WTO involvement also extended to the preparatory process for the conference. 
• Participated in various international mee tings and seminars involving parliamentarians 
including sessions of the IPU/EP Steering Committee in Geneva in February and June and the 49
th conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Dhaka in 
October.  Organized and coordinated vi sits to WTO by numerous parliamentary 
delegations and committees.  Resumed prepar ation of the regular WTO newsbulletin for 
parliamentarians. 
 
(ii) Stated Objective:  Continue to enhance and strengthen relations w ith Inter-Governmental 
Organizations (IGOs) whose mandates are related to WTO activities to ensure greater institutional policy cohe rence and cooperation. 
 
Relations with Intergovern mental Organizations (IGOs
): 
 
• Negotiated a key statement on international tr ade issues at the March meeting of the UN 
High Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP).  This statement was eventually adopted and issued by the heads of all UN agencies and Bretton Woods institutions as a statement of the UN Chief Executives Board. 
 
• Continued as the focal point in the Secretar iat for coordination of WTO representation 
at international conferences and meetings of UN agencies and other IGOs.  Organized 
and coordinated meetings between the Direct or-General, his deputies and heads of UN 
agencies and other IGOs.  Contributed to numerous reports prepared by UN agencies and/or coordinated inputs from other Divisions. 
 
• Assisted the Director-General 's participation in interna tional and intergovernmental 
meetings including the meeting of the OECD Executive Committee in Special Session 
in Paris in March, the Spring session of the UN Chief Executives Board in Paris in 
April, and the OECD Ministerial Meeting also in Paris in April. 
 
• Assisted senior management participation in various intergovernmental meetings 
including the ECOSOC High Level Meeting with Bretton Woods Institutions and WTO 
in New York in April, the ECOSOC Substantive Session High Level Dialogue in Geneva in June, the UN High Level Dialogue  on Financing for Development in New 
York in October, and the Fall session of the UN Chief Executives Board in New York 
in October. 
• Participated in/observed meetings of various UN bodies and specialized agencies 
including the 22
nd session of the UNEP Governing Council/4th Global Ministerial 
Meeting in Nairobi in February and the 11th Session of the UN Commission on 
Sustainable Development in New York in Apr il.  Attended regular meetings of the High  WT/BFA/W/115 
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Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP), OECD Trade Committee and UN Task 
Force and Gender and Trade. 
 
(iii) Stated Objective:  Prepare and orga nize the registration and attendance of NGO 
representatives to the 5th Ministerial in Cancún, Mexico. 
 
• 1135 Non-Governmental Organizations requested registration for the 5th Ministerial 
Conference.  Following our internal assess ment procedure, 961 organizations qualified 
as eligible and 795 actually attended the C onference, represented by 1578 individuals.  
The number of requests and the number of attending NGOs are both the highest numbers ever seen during a WTO Ministerial Conference. 
• During the Ministerial Conference, register ed NGO representatives had access to a fully 
operational NGO Center with meeting rooms, office facilities and a large computer room.  The Center was run to the satisfaction of all it users. 
• ERD provided two WTO briefings per day for registered NGOs in Cancún. 
 
(iv) Stated Objective:  Continue to improve the efficiency of the WTO's Registry function. 
 
• Ensuring the effective continuation of the WTO's registry function.   
• Extensive collaboration with Stanford Univ ersity and the internal Working Group on 
Archives has been developed with a view to making the electronic archives of the 
GATT usable for research purposes. 
 
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Informatics Division
 
 
 
   Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 2,454,200 2,413,423 40,777 
Temporary Assistance 1,012,250 1,434,051 (421,801) 
    
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment 1,389,200 644,321 744,879 
Expendable Supplies 162,670 142,689 19,981 
Contractual Services    
    Office Automation 1,718,110 2,117,812 (399,702) 
    
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs 13,000 13,000 0 
Missions    
    Official  13,000 9,512 3,488 
    Technical Cooperation    
Representation and     
    Hospitality 800 0 800 
Miscellaneous    
    
   
Total 6,763,230 6,774,809 (11,579) 
 
* Including higher category staff.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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Informatics Division  
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
  
Objectives
: 
 (i) To fulfil the on-going core functions of the Division:  Research, management and 
enhancements of the Information and Comm unication Technology infrastructure and IT 
systems, and provide the best user support and training. 
 (ii) To enhance the existing IT Security Policy and implement it gradually.  (iii) To introduce IT facilities and services when a nd where required, one of which is the start of 
the automation of the Conference Services. 
 (iv) To achieve all the IT requirements for the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun.  (v) To complete the deployment/training for the Windows 2000/ Office XP environment.  
(vi) To provide additional services to Members,  Staff and the Public through the WTO IT. 
 Realisation of the objectives
: 
 
• The Infrastructure was regularly enhanced a nd maintained in a proactive manner.  The 
result was a very high percentage of networ k services availability (near 100%).  Nearly 
all the proactive maintenance has been performed outside working hours.  Support calls 
totalled a number of 8389, covering staff in CWR and Rue Rothschield. 
• Following the final IT budget allocation and prio ritisation of projects, all projects have 
been successfully implemented.  In addition,  as a new service to Delegates, wireless 
connectivity was introduced in CWR and th e new Conference room.  This enables 
Delegates to use their wireless-equipped lapt ops to access the Internet.  An information 
note was circulated to that purpose. 
• The Migration to the new WTO environment (except for AGSD) will be completed at 
the end of February 2004, instead of end December 2003.  The delay was mainly due to the fact that the migration had to be frozen during the Ministerial Conference and during critical periods of preparation of the Ministerial, where staff members were not available to be trained and migrated. 
• The IT Security Policy has been enhanced.  An IT Security group has been established 
covering all Divisions.  Two progress repor ts were made to the ICT Steering 
Committee.  An annual report was done in January 2004 to the ICT Steering Committee 
and the Director-General.  A new pass-phrase policy was implemented.  It has been a busy year, testing and applying security patches, due to the increased IT security threats 
affecting all companies and organisations. 
• All the IT requirements for the Cancún Ministerial Conference were prepared and 
successfully implemented. 
• ADSL Internet connectivity was provided to LDC missions. 
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Information and Media Relations Division
 
  
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 2,362,600 2,310,531 52,069 
 Temporary assistance 87,900 216,888 (128,988) 
    
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment 11,000 33,282 (22,282) 
 Expendable Supplies 0 1,384 (1,384) 
 Contractual Services    
     Office Automation 10,000 13,353 (3,353) 
     
    
C.  Other costs Staff Overhead Costs    
 Missions    
     Official 20,000 19,898 102 
     Technical Cooperation    
 Representation and     
     Hospitality 5,000 4,996 4 
 Miscellaneous    
     Library    
     Publications 193,000 113,065 79,935 
     Information Activities 210,000 175,518 34,482 
     
    
Total 2,899,500 2,888,915 10,585 
 
* Including higher category staff. 
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Information and Media Relations Division  
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
  
Objectives
: 
 (i) Acting on the mandate delivered by Member govern ments, to use all means at our disposal to 
better inform the public about the WTO through regular press contacts, a range of information 
and reference publications, and an  ever-growing internet service. 
 (ii) Explain clearly what the WTO does, how it functions and its mission for the future, focusing this 
year on the negotiations process launched at the Doha Ministerial Conference, and on the fifth WTO Ministerial Conference. 
 
Expected results
: 
 
• Greater public understanding of the WTO and an increase in support for an openness to 
trade. 
• Media and public awareness of the aims of th e Doha negotiations and the work of the 
fifth Ministerial. 
Assessment : 
 
• The positive change in public perceptions of  the WTO which coincided with the launch 
of the Doha Development Agenda  continued to manifest itself in the lead up to and in 
the aftermath of the Cancun Ministerial.  Th is has altered the tone of public comment 
on the WTO, shifting from outright criticism of the organization and its aims to focus instead on the impact of further delays in reaching agreement on the Doha Agenda.  
This significant shift in the focus and tone of  the debate on WTO issues is largely due to 
the existence of a better understandi ng among the general public, and among 
journalists, about the role and work of the or ganization.  The results of the first Global 
Accountability Report, by the UK charity On e World Trust were symbolic of this 
change in attitude.  The report gave high marks to the WTO for transparency, ranking it 
third on access to online information, eighth on member control and fourth overall 
among 18 inter-governmental organizations , transnational corporations and 
international NGOs. 
• A number of specific efforts in 2003 contributed to this new environment for public 
debate on the WTO, including:   
• a sustained level of contacts with the public through 145 information briefings 
at the WTO involving about 5,000 participants; 
 
• regular contact with journalists in Geneva through 97 press briefings,  news 
conferences and photo opportunities, as well as regular contact with the 
1,000 journalists around the globe who have registered to use our internet Media newsroom.  Most of them received weekly email bulletins on development at the WTO; WT/BFA/W/115 
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• the organization of media and informati on events at the Cancun Ministerial, 
where nearly 2,000 journalists were re gistered and participated in daily 
briefings by the  WTO; 
 
• more than 50,000 individuals have self-re gistered with our contacts database to 
receive regular email bulletins on WTO developments.  This is a highly 
influential list, comprised largely of  academics, consultants, government 
officials and students with a speci fic interest in trade issues; 
 
• there were over 50,000 public email enquiries and comments received by the 
the WTO over the year;  all messages which required an answer were addressed within a maximum of 24 hours; 
 
• the WTO distributed nearly 60,000 books and information brochures free of 
charge In English, French and Spanish to the public and to WTO Members during 2003. 
 Objectives
: 
 
(iii) Continue improvements in making WTO info rmation and publications available through the use 
of electronic media, including the WTO Internet site, CD-ROMs and related electronic media. 
 (iv) Make the WTO website more user friendly a nd easy to maintain through the use of the latest 
technologies for website maintenance and management.   
 
Expected results
: 
 
• Increase in the effectiveness of the webs ite as a means for dissemination of WTO 
information and data, with a continuing incr ease in the number of users worldwide.   
Assessment : 
 
• The number of visitors to the WTO website  continues to grow at the rate of 
15-20 percent per month.  There were 7.5 million visits to the website during 2003 
(about 650,000 per month from about 170 countries) and over 270 million hits 
(indicating a high level of navigation through the site).  Users of the site downloaded 
millions of pages of WTO publications a nd documents, including over 120,000 copies 
of the WTO Annual Report, about 110,000 c opies of the World Trade Report and about 
130,000 copies of the International Trade Statistics.  Though the volume of users and 
the quantity of information have continued to increase, the WTO webteam has been 
able to keep ahead of demand by developing technical solutions which facilitate use of 
the site, and by devising work methods that  keep ahead of demand, enabling them to 
update the English, French and Spanish webs ites simultaneously many times per day.   
Objective : 
 (v) Expand and build upon existing co-publishing agreements to increase dissemination of WTO 
print and electronic publications, improve editorial control and quality, reduce costs for printing and production. 
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Expected results : 
 
• A growing list of information, research  and reference publications meeting high 
standards for editorial content, style and presentation.   
• A continuing reduction in the cost of producing and distributing WTO print and 
electronic publications, mainly through the increased use of co-publishing agreements 
with commercial publishers of high reputation.   
Assessment : 
 
• A new annual publication, the World Trad e Report, was successfully produced and 
launched, while maintaining production sche dules for the full list of the 145 other books 
and brochures produced during 2003.  Most of the books produced were co-publications;  the costs for printing, ma rketing and shipping these publications were 
assumed by our co-publishing partners.  The estimated saving for the WTO in 2003 was 
a minimum of CHF 1.4 million.  Revenues from sales of publications, royalties and from trust funds (for books distributed free of charge for training activities) amounted to over CHF 700,000.  Further cost savings in  the production of books were achieved by 
making use of the internal Roneo printing facility. 
 
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Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation (ITTC
) 
  
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 3,534,400 3,247,136 287,264 
Temporary Assistance 436,100 699,564 (263,464) 
   
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Building Facilities    
 Communications 
    Postal Charges  
28,000  
15,280  
12,720 
 Permanent Equipment 44,000 33,518 10,482 
Expendable Equipment    
Contractual Services    
    Office Automation 0 38,496 (38,496) 
   
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
 Missions    
    Official    
    Technical Cooperation 1,195,000 989,659 205,341 
Trade Policy Training    
    Courses 3,634,90 0 2,509,632 1,125,268 
Representation and     
    Hospitality 15,800 15,189 611 
Publications 37,000 48,253 (11,253) 
Other 0 36 (36) 
    
   
Total 8,925,200 7,596,764 1,328,436 
 
* Including higher category staff.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation (ITTC ) 
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
  
 In document WT/BFA/SPEC/82 the Objec tives and Work Programme for 2003 of the 
Technical Cooperation Division (TCD) and of th e Training Institute (TI) had been presented 
separately.  It should be noted that, in Spring 20 03, the TCD and the TI were merged to create the 
Institute for Training and Technical Co-operati on (ITTC).  Though the objectives are recalled as 
initially agreed, the achievements of the year ar e presented in a consolidated manner, as ITTC 
achievements. 
 
Objectives
 (initially set for the Technical Co-operation Division): 
 
(i) Provide technical assistance to WTO Memb ers and Observers as mandated by the Doha 
Development Agenda;  Implemen tation (overall responsibility) of the New WTO Strategy for 
Technical Cooperation, and the development of  technical cooperation policy as appropriate;  
and developing policy for sustainable technical  cooperation and capacity building beyond the 
Doha negotiations. 
 
Objectives  (initially set for the Training Institute): 
 (ii) WTO training activities aim at assisting recipient countries in their understanding and 
implementation of agreed international trade ru les and to contribute towards human resource 
development.  This objective is achieved by  the organization of trade policy courses of 
various length and scope in Geneva, for official s mainly from developing countries.  These 
courses aim at widening the participants' understa nding of the multilateral trading system and 
international trade law, and of the activities, scope and structure of the WTO, in order to 
allow them to improve the effectiveness of th eir work in their own administrations;  Other 
objectives for 2003 were to pursue the numerous programmes initiated over the recent years, such as the distance-learning, trainers-training and university-networking projects, as well as 
the continuous fine-tuning of both the internal  and external evaluation processes for all the 
Institute's activities and of the didactic materia l;  Another important objective was to seek to 
maintain and improve wherever possible the quality of the training delivered in the context of 
the considerable expansion of its activities si nce June 2001.  This expansion has resulted 
from, on the one hand, the regrouping, under the Institute's umbrella, of activities formerly 
carried out by other divisions, and, on the other, the December 2001 Members' decision to 
double the number of regular Trade Policy Co urses already delivered by the Institute.  
 
I. Achievements
 
 
• The ITTC has endeavoured to address a ll trade policy issues and concerns of 
developing and least developed countries, low-income countries, and countries in 
transition, and to facilitate their fuller partic ipation in the multilateral trading system.  A 
key objective in designing activities has been to build human and institutional capacity 
so as to ensure sustainability.  Techni cal assistance and training activities have 
increasingly gone beyond straightforward explanations of WTO provisions and 
negotiating issues to include practical exercises, simulations and interaction between the 
experts and the participants including on shar ing experiences, best practices and lessons 
learned.  In order to achieve the objective of building and enhancing sustainable human 
and institutional capacities, emphasis was put on creating and strengthening local 
capacity.   WT/BFA/W/115 
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• Technical assistance and training activities in 2003 comprised regional and national 
seminars/workshops, training courses, technical  missions and briefings on all aspects of 
the WTO Agreements and negotiation issues.  In all, 451 activities were carried out 
in 2003. 
• A beginning was made to an enhanced progr amme of collaboration with the academic 
community:  workshops for university professors  working in the field of international 
trade were held in several regions, either in connection with the regional trade policy 
course programme or as stand alones.  Likewise, 2003 saw the launch of two other 
initiatives:  the first ever trade policy clin ic conducted in Sierra Leone;  and the 
outsourcing programme.  The trade policy c linic is designed to give particular 
assistance to countries emerging from periods of strife or other situations where their capacity to integrate the multilateral trading system is particularly vulnerable.  Needs 
assessment is critical to this concept.  Th e outsourcing programme has two components:  
outsourcing to institutions and outsourcing to individual cons ultants.  This programme 
is meant to assist the Secretariat in carrying out its responsibilities in technical 
assistance and training, and to amplify its limited resources. 
• The Secretariat's efforts to create a culture of co-operation with other providers of 
TRTA, whether international, regional or b ilateral continued unabated, and a number of 
MOUs enshrining such co-operation were developed and signed in 2003. 
• Some other achievements in 2003 were: 
• The Joint Integrated Technical  Assistance Programme (JITAP
).  In 
February 2003 the JITAP Phase II was offici ally launched to provide concrete 
and practical benefits on human and ins titutional capacity building.  A total of 
16 African countries were beneficiaries under JITAP Phase II, namely Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte  d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, 
Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senega l, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, and 
Zambia. 
 
• Trade Policy Courses .  In 2003, one hundred and twenty eight Fellows have 
been trained in the context of Trade Policy Courses (TPCs).  Four TPCs took place in Geneva.  Two TPCs were held in English, one in Spanish, and one in 
French.  Overall one hundred and five participants from developing and least 
developed countries as well as economies in transition attended these courses 
which lasted twelve weeks each.  A Re gional TPC, conducted in English, was, 
for the second time, organized jointly by the WTO and the University of 
Nairobi.   
 
• Other Geneva-based Training Activities .  Two Introduction courses, three 
Specialized courses on Dispute Settlement, two Specialized courses (on Trade Negotiations and on Trade in Services), a training week on WTO for representatives participating in the In ternship Programme, two introduction 
days for acquainting national delegates ne wly arrived in Geneva with the WTO 
and its functioning.  Substantial progr ess continued to be made on harmonizing 
training material on the WTO.  It is expected that the ITTC training support 
library will become effectively operational in the course of 2004. 
 
• WTO/OECD Trade Capacity Building Data Base (TCBDB ).  In 2003, the WTO 
and the OECD updated the web-based Tr ade Capacity Building Data Base 
with 2001, 2002 and part ial 2003 activities reported by 39 bilateral donor 
countries and multilateral agencies.  It  contains over 8000 activities.  The  WT/BFA/W/115 
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TCBDB is available for consultation by any interested party at the following 
Internet address:  http://tcbdb.wto.org.  Based on the detailed information 
available in the TCBDB, the WTO and the OECD produced in July 2003 the Second Joint Report on Trade-Related T echnical Assistance and Capacity 
Building.  This report shows, in volum e and value terms, projects and activities 
being delivered in response to the Doha  mandates by TA-providers (countries as 
well as multilateral and regional institutions). WT/BFA/W/115 
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Intellectual Property Division
 
  
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years Salary 1,796,300 1,658,352 137,948 
Temporary Assistance 40,200 67,217 (27,017) 
    
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment 3,000 3,225 (225) 
Expandable Equipment    
Contractual Services    
    
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
Missions    
    Official  37,400 31,317 6,083 
    Technical Cooperation    
Representation and    
    Hospitality 800 388 412 
    
   
Total 1,877,700 1,760,499 117,201 
 
* Including higher category staff. 
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Intellectual Property Division  
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
  
1. Intellectual Property
 
 (i) Provide efficient service to the regular a nd Special Sessions of the TRIPS Council, in 
particular to facilitate completion on schedul e of the negotiations and work programmes 
established at Doha, and to any disput e settlement panels that may arise. 
 
• The most important achievement of the TRIPS Council in 2003 was the decision on the 
implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health 
which was adopted by the General  Council on 30 August 2003 in the light of a 
statement made by the Chairman of the General Council at that time, on the basis of 
recommendations from the Council for TRIPS.  Also, the Council for TRIPS adopted, 
in February 2003, a decision on "Implementation of Article 66.2 of the TRIPS Agreement" which gives effect to pa ragraph 11.2 of the Doha Decision on 
Implementation-Related Issues and Concerns .  Work was pursued both in the Council 
and in preparations before a nd at Cancun on a range of other issues.  Important progress 
was made towards Cancun decisions on non-viol ation and situation complaints in the 
TRIPS area and on an issue relating to special and differential treatment, but given the 
overall outcome of the Cancun meeting, this  was not embodied in formal decisions.  
The Division also serviced consultations held by or on behalf of the Director-General 
on the issue of the proposed extension of Article 23 GI protection.   
• The Special Session of the Council for TRIPS made significant progress, with the 
tabling in April 2003 of a draft Chairman's text.  This reflected a significant measure of 
common ground on some aspects and crystallized options for others.  Further progress, 
both in Special Session and in subsequent c onsultations, both before  and at Cancun, was 
impeded by continuing differences on certain basic issues. 
(ii) 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. 
 
• During the course of the year, the Division participated in 20 technical cooperation 
seminars and similar events outside Geneva.  Division officers were also involved in an 
increasing volume of technical cooperation activ ities in Geneva itself, such as the WTO 
training courses, as well as the usual direct assistance to delegations and capital-based 
officials. 
(iii) Maintain and develop lines of communication with other inte rgovernmental 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. 
 
• The Division has ongoing working relations with a range of intergovernmental 
organizations, including WIPO, WHO, UNAIDS, WCO, UPOV, CBD, FAO, OIV, and 
a number of regional industrial property offices.  NGOs have become increasingly 
active and interested in areas relating to  the TRIPS Agreement and the Division 
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practitioners' organizations, public interest  groups, industry associations and the 
academic community. 
(iv) Contribute to other Secretariat activities relating to intellectual property rights, including 
preparations for the next Ministerial meeting. 
 
• The Division assists and gives advice on IP matters to other parts of the Secretariat, 
notably senior management and in connecti on with accessions, development, electronic 
commerce and trade policy review.  In regard to the Cancun Ministerial, see under point 1 above.   
2. Competition Policy and Government Procurement
 
 
(i) Provide efficient service to the Working Groups on the Interaction between Trade and 
Competition Policy and Transparency  in Government Procurement. 
 
• Each of these working Groups held two formal meetings as well as a number of 
informal meetings during the first part of the year.  These meetings focused on some substantive areas where some delegations had outstanding concerns in connection with 
the possible launching of negotiations. 
(ii) Provide efficient service to the Committee established under the plurilateral Agreement on 
Government Procurement and to disput e settlement panels that may arise. 
 
• At the Committee's two formal meetings a nd at an intensive series of informal 
meetings, major progress was made with the renegotiation of the 
non-market-access-related provisions of the text of the Agreement.  The participants in 
these negotiations agreed on a new target for the completion of this work of spring 2004.  Parties also discussed the initiation of the components of the negotiations related to the expansion of coverage and elimination of discriminatory measures under 
the Agreement. 
(iii) Provide enhanced technical cooperation a nd information/advice more generally to WTO 
Members. 
 
• In 2003, the Division significantly stepped up the level of its technical cooperation 
activities in the areas of competition policy and government procurement.  These included the organization by the Division, sometimes in cooperation with other intergovernmental organizations, such as th e World Bank and the IDB/INTAL, of five 
regional Workshops in the area of competition policy and three in the area of 
government procurement, as well as a Ge neva symposium for delegates on each 
subject.  In addition, the Division supplie d resource persons for the competition and 
procurement components of nine more gene ral WTO training courses or similar events 
held outside Geneva.  The Division also participated in fourteen other technical cooperation events outside Geneva, including a series of regional Workshops organized 
by UNCTAD in the field of competition policy.  The Division further provided resource 
persons for a large number of training activ ities in Geneva and continued to provide 
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(iv) Maintain and develop lines of communicati on with other intergovernmental organizations, 
business, the NGO community, the academic world, etc. 
 
• The Division maintains close working relati ons with a range of intergovernmental 
organizations, with interests in the areas of competition policy and of government 
procurement, including UNCTAD, the World Bank, the OECD and regional 
development banks, and communicates regular ly with organizations of practitioners, 
academia and certain non-governmental organi zations with interests in these areas. 
(v) Contribute to other Secretariat activities on competition policy and government procurement 
matters, including the preparations for the next Ministerial Conference 
 
• In addition to the normal support that the Division gives to senior management and 
other parts of the Secretariat (including economic research, trade policy review, services, accessions), the Division serviced pr eparatory work under the auspices of the 
General Council for the Cancun Ministerial C onference in these two areas, as well as 
the work at Cancun itself.   
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Language Service and Documentation Division
 
  
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Professional* Salary 15, 778,300 14,656, 484 1,121,816 
Temporary Assistance 10,619,900 12,372,177 (1,752,277) 
    
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment 239,500 256,788 (17,288) 
Expendable Equipment 640,000 522,209 117,791 
Contractual Services    
    Reproduction 1,355,800 1,135,296 220,504 
    Office Automation 179,700 117,624 62,076 
   
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
Missions    
    Official 15,000 10,145 4,855 
    Technical Cooperation    
Representation and     
    Hospitality 800 800 0 
    
   
Total 28,829,000 29,071,524 (242,524) 
 
* Including higher category staff.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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Languages Services and Documentation Division  
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
  
General
 
 (i) Continue to provide langua ge and documentation services in an efficient and timely way, 
overcoming complexities resulting from the location of part of the division outside the Centre 
William Rappard (over 70 regular and tempor ary staff members in the Annex in Rue 
Rothschild). 
 
• The Division succeeded in achieving this genera l objective to a very high degree.  Once 
again, no structural backlog has been allo wed to develop and doc uments have normally 
been circulated in a timely fashion despite  the additional complexities arising from the 
services concerned being split between the main  building and the rue Rothschild annex.  
Contributing factors have been:  (a) the enhancement of the Documents Management 
System, (b) full deployment of digital voice recording technology, and (c) the acquisition of more powerful scanners to re route drafts between the two buildings. 
Conference services
 
 
(ii) Streamline and facilitate registration pro cedures for Ministerial Conference.  Enhance 
conference services in Members' Home Page .  Improve electronic posting and updating of 
calendar of meetings, including contribution to a joint inter-agency calendar.  Particularly, 
contribute in the logistic areas under its purview to the smooth running of the Cancún Ministerial Conference. 
 
• With the cooperation of the Mexican Orga nising Committee, LSDD embarked upon an 
ambitious programme to replace the traditional paper-based registration of Members and Observers by an on-line system.  Thanks  to this system, more than five thousand 
participants attending the Ministerial Conference were registered on-line all over the world.  Badges were prepared and printed befo re the arrival of participants in Cancún, 
which considerably reduced waiting times for ba dge distribution.  Additional benefits of 
the system were realised in the security and protocol area, as well as in the preparation 
of the Official List of Representatives.  Thus, the objectives relating to the registration procedures for the Ministerial Conference and for the smooth running of the Conference in 
the logistical areas within the Division's sp here of competence were fully attained.  The 
experience gained in the development and implementation of an on-line accreditation 
system will now be very useful for the development of an in-house system (ongoing 
objective for 2004). 
• During 2003 work continued on the improve ment of conference services.  The 
Members website provides access to the weekly schedule of official WTO meetings
 and 
also serves as a dissemination point for miscellaneous documents  relating to upcoming 
conferences, seminars, symposia and workshops organized by the WTO Secretariat.  As 
mentioned above, the new facility "Documen ts for Meetings" includes a real-time 
calendar of meetings.  Meetings and asso ciated documents can now be displayed 
chronologically or by subject areas. 
• A prototype of the joint inter-agency calendar was prepared.   WT/BFA/W/115 
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Translation services
 
 (iii) Reinforce the in-house translation/revision capacity, mainly in the legal area.  Enhance 
communications infrastructure and applications.  Upgrade the TAS (translation assistance system) and other CAT tools. 
 
• These objectives have also been very largel y achieved.  The very heavy volume of 
dispute-settlement translation and revisi on has been successfully handled by the 
Division, as is evidenced by the fact that a ll the very tight deadlines have been met.  
In-house capacity is being reinforced steadily  but necessarily slowly as new recruits are 
trained up.  As part of its programme to  enhance decentralised operations, LSDD has 
continued expanding the resources availa ble on the Telework Home Page on the 
Internet and on the Translation Page on the Intranet:  WTOTerm (LSDD's trilingual 
glossary), resources for machine-assisted transl ation users (an effort has been made on 
refining and expanding translation memories), and text-synchronization technology (Documents Online for Translators).  A dditional licenses of Trado's Translators 
Workbench were purchased so as to expand cap acity in the machine assisted translation 
area.  A study to replace the TAS was started, the results of which are being implemented. 
Documentation services
 
 (iv) Provide improved services to Members, observers  and the public at large.  Special attention 
will be devoted to the training of specialists on legal research  online and of junior trade 
officials on the rudiments of on-line documentation management and retrieval. 
 
• Several enhancements were introduced durin g 2003 to the Members' Web Page and to 
Documents Online:  to facilitate the re trieval and downloadi ng of information, 
improvements were introduced to the section "Hot off the Press" and to the "Browse" 
facility in Documents Online.  However, the most important realisation was the 
launching of "Documents for Meetings" – a f acility enabling delegati ons to retrieve and 
download all documents associated with a m eeting.  The associations of documents and 
meetings are valid for all formal meetings he ld since 1 January 2003.  This facility also 
provides delegations with a r eal-time calendar of meetings. 
• Training courses on documentary research were introduced during the special sessions 
of the "Geneva Week".  The expansion of these courses was hampered by the lack of a 
proper training room and the use of the Members' room for the registration of participants attending the Cancún Ministerial Conference.   
Unforeseen Realisations
 
 
• At the request of several divisions enhancements were introduced to the derestriction 
module of Documents Online.   
• Several applications had to be modified  because of the migration to Windows 2000. 
 
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Legal Affairs Division  
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 2,101,200 1,938,712 162,488 
Temporary Assistance 97,900 270,104 (172,204) 
   
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment    
Expendable Equipment    
Contractual Services    
   
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
Missions    
    Official 13,000 12,562 438 
    Technical Cooperation    
Representation and     
    Hospitality 800 180 620 
Miscellaneous    
    Panels 1,287,000 987,522 299,478 
    Experts 0 24,600 (24,600) 
     
   
Total 3,499,900 3,233,681 266,219 
 
* Including higher category staff. WT/BFA/W/115 
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Legal Affairs Division
 
  
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003
 
  
Panel Composition and Panel Work  
 
(i) Give legal advice regarding composition and operation of WTO dispute settlement panels and 
generally support the drafting of panel re ports in an appropriate and speedy way. 
 
Expected Results : 
 
• The division was expected to service approximately  15 panels during the year 2003 
(including 21.5 and 22.6 procedures). 
Actual Results : 
 
• The division was involved in thirteen panel (or arbitral body) compositions in 2003.  
Six panels (or arbitral bodies) were co mposed in 2003 based on the work of the 
division:  EU-Tariff Preferences, Uruguay-Tax Trea tment;  US-Cotton Subsidies;  
Canada-Wheat;  US-Internet Gambling;  and US-1916 Act (a 22.6 Arbitration).  In 
addition, substantial work was done on seven more panel compositions, which were still 
underway at the end of the year.  These were:  EC-GMOs;  EC-GIs;  EC-Sugar 
Subsidies;  EC-Chicken Customs Classification;  Australia-Quarantine Regime, 
Australia-Fruit and Vegetables;  and US-Florida Excise Tax on Orange Juice.   As for 
panel work, the division provided legal counsel and legal drafting assistance to the following eleven WTO panels and arbitral bodies in 2003:  US-Steel safeguards, 
Argentina-Preserved Peaches, US-Textile Rules of Origin;  Mexico-Telecoms;  
EU-Tariff Preferences, US-Internet Gambling;  Canada-Wheat;  US-Cotton Subsidies;  
Uruguay-Tax Treatment;  Japan-Apples;  and US-1916 Act (a 22.6 Arbitration).   
General Legal Advice to the DG, Other Secretariat Divisi ons, and WTO Bodies  
 
(ii) Give sound and timely legal advice to the Office  of the Director-General, to other Secretariat 
divisions, to the DSB and other WTO Bodies, and to the Joint Appeals Body. 
 
Actual Results : 
 
• The division provided a wide range of legal advice in the following areas (with an 
indication to whom in parentheses):  China/Chinese Taipei representational issues (DG);  TRIPS and Public Health Decision (IP);  HS Waivers (Market Access);  Notification and Consultation Requireme nts on RTAs (Development);  ILOAT 
litigation (HR);  Necessity Test (TSD);  Stanford Archiving Project (DG):  JAB 
operations (HR);  pension fund (HR);  and final documentation on newly acceding 
Members (Accessions).  In addition, the divi sion prepared the following internal legal 
analyses for future use by WTO dispute settle ment panels and the Secretariat:  legal 
value in WTO dispute settlement of actions taken by WTO bodies and related issues;  
WTO jurisprudence with respect to amicus curiae , third party rights, and consultation 
and panel requests.  The division also did legal analysis and comment on the activities 
of the International Law Commission.  The division provided legal advice to the 
Council Division on the operation of the DSB and also advised the DSB Chairman on 
several difficult legal issues that arose during the course of the year, particularly the  WT/BFA/W/115 
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operation of Annex V of the SCM Agreem ent in the context of the dispute on 
US-Cotton Subsidies.  Finally, the division staffed the DSU-Special Session throughout 
the year and provided ongoing advice to its Chairman. 
Technical Cooperation and Assistance  
 
(iii) Participate in technical assistance activities, mainly in respect of dispute settlement training, 
and more generally help to fulfil the traini ng mandate of Article 27.3 of the DSU and the 
Doha Ministerial Mandate. 
 
Expected Results : 
 
• Division should be able to respond to all reasonable requests for training and teaching 
activities in the framework organizati on's technical assistance mandate. 
Actual Results : 
 
• The division participated in  thirty-one technical assi stance and capacity building 
activities during the year, primarily in the area of dispute settlement training.  These included seven regional seminars, four nationa l seminars.  four Trade Policy Courses in 
Geneva, three regional Trade Policy Courses, two Specialized Dispute Settlement 
Courses, four DDA courses, one regional capacity building seminar, two national Trade Policy Courses, two intellectual property cour ses (done at request of IP division), and 
two government procurement courses (done at re quest of IP division).  Of particular 
note were the two dispute settlement courses arranged for Mexico on short notice after 
Cancun as a gesture of thanks to Mexico for having hosted the Fifth WTO Ministerial. 
WTO Legal Publications  
 
(iv) 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. 
 
Actual Results : 
 
• The first edition of the WTO Analytical Index (covering WTO law and practice from 
1 January 1995 through 30 June 2001) was published in 2003.  The division also 
substantially completed the first annual update of the index (covering the period 
1 July 2001 through 31 December 2002).  The division was largely responsible for 
researching, drafting, and editing a detailed Training Guide on WTO Dispute Settlement, which will be published in 2004 as a Handbook on WTO Dispute 
Settlement by Cambridge.  The division also did substantial work in 2003 to keep the 
Status of WTO Legal Instruments current a nd to bring the Dispute Settlement Reports 
series up to date.  Finally, the division drafted sections of the WTO annual report 
dealing with dispute settlement. 
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Depository Functions of the DG and Operati on of the WTO Dispute Settlement Registry  
 
(v) Perform the DG's depository functions in  respect of all WTO agreements and WTO 
accessions, and maintain an up-to-date dispute settlement registry. 
 
Actual Results : 
 
• All depository and dispute settlement registry  tasks were performed on an accurate and 
timely basis in 2003.   
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Market Access Division  
  
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
   
A.  Work years* Salary 1,752,400 1,675,594 76,806 
 Temporary Assistance 33,050 21,635 11,415 
     
B.  Administrative     
 Costs Permanent Equipment 2,000 - 2,000 
Expendable Equipment    
Contractual Services    
    
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
 Missions    
     Official 25,000 14,693 10,307 
     Technical Cooperation    
 Representation and    
     Hospitality 800 375 425 
     
     
Total  1,813,250 1,712,296 100,954 
 
* Including higher category staff. 
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Market Access Division
 
  Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003
 
 
 
To provide efficient service to the following WTO Bodies:  (i) Council for Trade in Goods 
 
• The CTG oversaw the multilateral trade ag reements covering the goods sector and took 
actions where required on issues raised by the CTG subsidiary bodies, which included 
examining and approving requests for waiver s and waiver extensions, adopting the 
terms of reference under which regional trade agreements were to be examined in the 
CRTA, and taking note of Members' compliance with relevant notifi cation obligations.  
In addition, the CTG continued to review the operation of the TRIMs Agreement under 
Article 9, took note of the phasing-out of remaining TRIMs, and carried out China's 
Transitional Review. 
• The Division also continued to carry out the WTO's work on trade facilitation
, both 
within the framework of the Goods Council and other fora.   
• With respect to the CTG, the Division serviced the Council in its execution of the Trade 
Facilitation Work Program Members had a dopted in December 2002.  Two formal 
meetings were held in March and July, with nine written s ubmissions (one of which was 
prepared by the Secretariat) supporting the discussions.  The Division further assisted 
the CTG chair in organising a series of info rmal consultations with  delegations ahead of 
the meetings on how to approach the subj ect matter.  Three additional informal 
exchanges were held in preparation for the Council's Annual Report to the General 
Council on the basis of drafts prepared by the Division.  The Division further supported the CTG's work on trade facilitation by providing information and advice on the subject 
to the chairman, delegations and ob server organisations on many occasions. 
• The Division further serviced a number of activities on trade facilitation outside the 
Goods Council.  Assistance was provided for several initiatives launched under the auspices of the General Council within th e framework of its work on modalities for 
possible negotiations on trade facilitation.  The Division serviced a series of informal consultations on this question in June, July  and August, and assisted in reporting on 
their outcome to the General Council and HODs meetings.  Assistance was also given 
to the facilitator dealing with trade facilita tion and to senior management at Cancun.  
Support was further provided for the post- Cancun consultation process, where the 
Division serviced a series of informal exchanges on how to move forward in the area of trade facilitation.  The Division also r esponded to numerous specific requests for 
briefings and information from other divisi ons, Geneva and capital based delegations, 
other international organisations and privat e parties.  Three regional seminars were 
organized in Africa, Asia and Latin America, in addition to several teaching and training commitments both in Geneva (Trade Policy Courses, Geneva week etc) and in 
the field (participation at several semi nars and workshops organized by other 
intergovernmental organizations or NGOs).  The Division also worked on establishing 
and maintaining good relations with other in ternational partners and the public by 
engaging in several inter-age ncy and working group meetings on trade facilitation, and 
by providing information and training material to academic institutions.  Service was 
further provided by regularly updating th e WTO's trade facilitation web site.    WT/BFA/W/115 
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(ii) Committee on Import Licensing  
 Receiving , processing and reviewing notifications r eceived under various provisions of the 
Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures;  improving the compliance of Members with 
notification obligations;  conducting the re view of the implementation of China's 
commitments in the import licensing area under Se ction 18 of its Protocol of Accession and 
reporting the results of the review to the Council for Trade in Goods;  monitoring and 
reviewing the implementation and operation of the Agreement;  Providing information and 
advice to acceding countries, delegations, private parties and other Divisions in the Secretariat 
on matters relating to import licensing : 
 
• In 2003, the Division serviced two formal meetings of the Committee on Import 
Licensing.  The activities included the processing and issuing of 116 licensing 
notifications by Members and other Committee-related doc uments;  conducting 
informal consultations with delegations;  preparation of the annual report of the 
Committee;  preparations for the second review of the implementation of China's commitments in the import licensing area pursuant to its Protocol of Accession and 
reporting the results of the review to the Council for Trade in Goods;  sending 
reminders to delegations whose notifica tions were overdue;  assisting several 
delegations in preparing their notifications;  responding to specific requests for briefings and factual information from Geneva-b ased delegations and capitals, other 
intergovernmental organizations, the privat e sector and other Divisions on matters 
relating to import licensing;  and several pr esentations in the framework of the WTO 
Trade Policy Courses.   
(iii) Committee of Participants on the Expansi on of Trade on Information Technology Products 
 
• During 2003, the Committee held 4 formal meetings and a Workshop. 
 Advance the 
Non -Tariff Measures Work Programme, including work on EMC/EMI : 
 
• The Committee continued to address this impor tant aspect of its work at the formal 
meetings of the Committee during the year. 
• Work on the analysis and impact of the NT Ms continued.  In this respect, work on 
EMC/EMI continued as a pilot-project and a Workshop was held.  The Workshop proved very useful to the advancement of  the work on this particular NTM. 
• There were additional replies to the surv ey on EMC/EMI and the Secretariat updated 
the overview documents on the survey of  replies and the NTM Work Programme. 
 Increase participation by adding new Members
: 
 
• Four schedules were submitted to the Committ ee during the year for consideration.   
The Committee examined these proposals and we lcomed the participation of Bahrain, 
China, Egypt and Morocco during the year.  Thus, the number of participants became 61 at the end of the year. 
 Review 
Classification  Issues : 
 
• The Committee continued to address this matter at the formal meetings of the 
Committee during the year.  The Secretariat updated the Overview paper and 
participants continued their examination of the products on the respective lists. WT/BFA/W/115 
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 Monitor 
and review implementation matters : 
 
• The Committee reviewed the implementation of the ITA at ech of its formal meetings 
during the year. 
• Four documents on the status of implementati on were prepared and circulated so that 
the matter could be kept u nder review by participants. 
 Review other  matters relating to trade in  information technology products : 
 
• The Committee served as a forum for participan ts to raise any matter relating to the 
Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products. 
 Review Product Coverage : 
 
• The "review of product coverage" was addressed  under "other business" at each of the 
Committee's formal meetings.  It was not ed that consultations were on-going. 
(iv) Committee on Rules of Origin 
 
 Carry out the Harmonization Work Programme  on non-preferential rules of origin : 
 
• The Chair and Vice-Chair of the Committee, at the request of the Chairman of the 
General Council, held five sessions of in formal consultations with the Members 
concerned, in March, May, Ju ly, October and November 2003. 
• The integrated negotiating text was updated. 
 Provide services to the Committee on Rules of Origin : 
 
• The two sessions of the Committee were we ll prepared and successfully concluded.  
The minutes of these meetings are contained in G/RO/M/43-44 
 Provide information and advice to delegations, private parties and other divisions in the 
Secretariat on matters relating to rules of origin : 
 
• Two regional workshop (Oman and Fiji), one  national workshop (Yemen) missions was 
carried out during 2003. 
• Responding to requests from various parti es, relevant information was provided 
 Attend meetings twice  a year of the WCO Technical Committee on Rules of Origin in 
Brussels : 
 
• A staff member of the Division attended a meeting of the WCO Technical Committee 
on Rules of Origin. 
• The Technical Committee met only once in 2003 instead of twice as planned.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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(v) Committee on Customs Valuation  
 Monitoring 
Members'  legislation and implementation of the Agreement . 
 
 Receiving and processing  notifications of legislation : 
 
• During 2003, the Committee received six notifications regarding legislation and 
implementation of the Agreement.  One D ecision was negotiated and adopted granting 
an extension of the implementation date.   The Committee received two notifications 
containing responses to the Checklist of  Issues.  The Committee also addressed 
questions from India and Brazil on the Europ ean Communities' valuation policies, as 
well as questions from the United States and Guatemala on certain Mexican valuation 
practices and policies.   
• The Committee completed the 2003 Transitiona l Review in accordance with Section 18 
of China's Protocol of Accession.  It submitted its report on this Review to the Council for Trade in Goods in G/VAL/56. 
 Continue to address the 
implementation  issues relating to customs valuation : 
 
• In the context of the mandate from Minister s in Article 12 of the Doha Ministerial 
Declaration, the Committee held one additi onal formal meeting and several informal 
meetings to address the mandate in para graph 8.3 of the Implementation-Related 
Decision.  At the formal meeting, the Committee considered the response it received 
from the Technical Committee on the terms of reference for a technical examination of 
specific related issues.  The matter remain s unresolved because no consensus could be 
reached on completing the mandate. 
 Providing information and advice  to delegations, other intern ational organizations, private 
parties and other Divisions in the Secretar iat on matters relating to customs valuation :   
 
• Provided advice and information to delegati ons on a regular basis throughout 2003 on 
provisions of the Agreement on Customs Valu ation.  Answered queries from the public 
regarding the WTO rules on customs valuation, averaging about three queries a month, and assisted the ITTC and TPR Divisions on matters relating to customs valuation. 
 Advising Members 
on technical assistance needs and ava ilability of assistance and working 
with other donors and providers to ensure provision of assistance : 
 
• Explained to several developing and least -developed country Members the type of 
technical assistance the WTO could offer in order to assess their needs and where best 
they should seek assistance.  Worked with Members to formulate requests for national 
activities and in the development of programmes for two regional activities. 
 Organizing and participating  in technical co-operation missi ons to expedite implementation : 
 
• Organized two regional activities on customs valuation and partic ipated as expert 
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 Participate in WCO meetings of the Tec hnical Committee on Customs Valuation and other 
relevant tasks forces on capacity-building and technical assistance : 
 
• Participated as the WTO representative in th ree meetings of the Technical Committee in 
Brussels. 
 Monitoring and administering  aspects related to the Agreem ent on Preshipment Inspection : 
 
• As a standing agenda item in the Committee on Customs Valuation, carried out all work 
related to the two meetings of the Co mmittee where PSI was discussed.  Answered 
questions (about 8 during 2003) on the PSI Agreement from delega tions and the public, 
lectured trainees on the PSI Agreement, and assisted staff of the Trade and Environment Division in responding to queries on TBT and PSI. 
(vi) Committee on Market Access 
 
 Make as much progress as possible on the ongoing exercise of introducing HS2002 changes 
to schedules of concessions : 
 
• A briefing to delegations was provided by th e Secretariat on the procedures to introduce 
HS2002 changes to schedules and the HS2002 verifi cation exercise in order to facilitate 
their understanding of the process.  Add itionally, a HS2002 "collective" waiver 
extending the time-limit of the waiver until 31 December 2004 was approved by the 
Committee on Market Access.   
 Complete the exercise of introducing HS96 changes to schedules of concessions : 
 
• In 2003, one informal meeting was dedicated to the review of the HS96 situation based 
on an informal list prepared by the Secret ariat.  The HS96 exercise was completed for 
another six schedules, thereby reducing th e number of pending schedules from ten to 
four. 
 Complete the transposition  of the remaining two schedules of concessions into the 
Harmonized System : 
 
• Work continues on these two schedules.   
 Work closely with the statistics Division in respect of the IDB and the CTS database : 
 
• One example of such cooperation has been  the numerous technical assistance missions 
conducted together by the two Divisions.  Additionally, many documents have been 
prepared by the Statistics Division for th e non-agricultural market access negotiations 
using these databases.   
 Participate in the WCO meetings of the Harmonized System Committee : 
 
• Due to the intensive work load resulting from the negotiations on non-agricultural 
market access, it was not possible to attend the Harmonized System Committee meetings in 2003.    WT/BFA/W/115 
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 Address the two implementation  issues which currently figure on the agenda of the 
Committee : 
 
• These issues were transmitted to the Gene ral Council and TNC at the end of 2002 by 
the Committee on Market Access. 
 Provide information and advice to acceding countries, delegations, other international 
intergovernmental  organizations, private parties and Di visions in the Secretariat on matters 
relating to market access matters : 
 
• Information has been provided on an almost  continual basis regarding issues ranging 
from Article XXVIII procedures to developmen ts in the non-agricultural market access 
negotiations. 
 Process and circulate  expeditiously notifications received : 
 
• Notifications received in 2003 were particul arly numerous due to the non-agricultural 
market access negotiations.  They were a ll processed and circulated expeditiously.   
(vii) Negotiating Group on Market Access 
 
 Reach agreement  on the modalities for market access negotiations by 31 May 2003 : 
 
• Much time and effort was invested in tr ying to obtain an agreement on modalities for 
the market access negotiations on non-ag ricultural products by 31 May 2003.  
Unfortunately, agreement was not possible.   
 Reach agreement  on a 2003 programme of meetings a nd work programme subsequent to 
31 May 2003 : 
 
• The subject of programme of meetings or  work programme was not raised after 
31 May 2003 in the Negotiating Group on Market Access.  Instead, the Group worked intensively towards reaching an agreement on modalities in that period of time and up 
to the Cancún Ministerial meeting. 
 Ensure the 
provision  of technical assistance : 
 
• In the course of the Negotiating Group's wo rk there were four presentations by the 
Secretariat on the various technical issues arising from discussions on modalities.  Additionally, many technical assistance missions were carried out on NAMA matters.   
(viii) Technical Assistance Activities 
 
 In addition to the above activities, and in order to further the work of the relevant committee, 
the Market Access Division also carried out th e following technical assistance activities in the 
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MARKET ACCESS DIVISION 
2003 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE MISSIONS 
 
Subject Region Seminar Type 
 Date Duration 
Customs Valuation     
 Mauritius Regional March 10 days 
 Burkina Faso Regional and National December 5 + 5 days 
Trade Facilitation     
 Thailand Regional (APEC) February 3 days 
 Kenya Regional May 4 days 
 Sri Lanka Regional May 4 days 
 Ethiopia Regional June 5 days 
 South Africa Commonwealth June 2 days 
 Costa Rica Regional August 4 days 
 Chinese Taipei Regional (APEC) September 3 days 
 Chinese Taipei Regional November 3 days 
Notification obligations     
 China National September 3 days 
Rules of Origin     
 Fiji Regional November 2 days 
Customs Valuation and 
Rules of Origin     
 Yemen National October 3 days 
Customs Valuation and 
Trade Facilitation     
 Barbados Sub-regional February 5 days 
 Kenya Sub-Regional March 6 days 
 Oman Sub-regional October 5 days 
 Cambodia Sub-Regional November 5 days 
 St. Lucia Sub-Regional December 5 days 
Rules of Origin, 
Preshipment Inspection and Import Licensing     
 Oman Sub-regional October 2 days 
Non-agricultural market 
access     
 Malaysia Regional (ITC) January 2 days 
 South Africa Regional (ITC) March 3 days 
 Chinese Taipei Regional March 5 days 
 Sri Lanka Regional April 4 days 
 Australia Regional (IDLO) May 2 days 
 Georgia Regional June-July 3 days 
 Croatia Regional (ITC) July 3 days 
 Jamaica Regional (ITC) July 2 days  WT/BFA/W/115 
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Subject Region Seminar Type 
 Date Duration 
 Geneva Regional July 1 day 
 Egypt Regional August 5 days 
 Turkey Regional November 2 days 
Market Access and Trade 
Facilitation     
 Egypt WTO Trade Policy Course January 4 days 
 Greece Regional June 1 day 
 South Africa Regional June 2 days 
 Geneva Regional (JITAP) July 1 day 
 Ghana Regional October 2 days 
 China Regional Oct-November 5 days 
General Market Access     
 Kenya WTO Trade Policy Course May 1 day 
ITA     
 Geneva Workshop April 1 ½ day 
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Rules Division
 
  
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 2,050,300 2,002,939 47,361 
Temporary Assistance 18,100 95,073 (76,973) 
   
B.  Administrative    
 Costs Permanent Equipment    
Expendable Equipment    
Contractual Services    
   
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs    
Missions    
    Official 12,800 11,326 1,474 
    Technical Cooperation    
Representation and     
    Hospitality 800 705 95 
Miscellaneous    
Panels    
    
   
Total 2,082,000 2,110,042 (28,042) 
 
* Including higher category staff.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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Rules Division  
 
 
Realisation of Objectives for 2003  
  
Objectives 1 and 8
 (From WT/BFA/SPEC/82 at p. 94): 
 (i) Ensure efficient functioning of, and facilita te on-going discussions and negotiations in the 
Negotiating Group on Rules as well as work of other WTO bodies serviced by the Division. 
 
(ii) Undertake any tasks which may result from the preparation for and the outcome of the 
Cancún Ministerial Meeting. 
 
• In 2003, the staff of the Rules Division organized and serviced some 49 formal and 
informal meetings of the ten main and subs idiary bodies within its area of competence.
3  
A number of these meetings extended over mo re than one day, and all included the 
preparation and circulation of significant amounts of documentation and preparation of 
background material for the use of the Chair and Members, as well as minutes or reports of meetings.   
• The regular work of these Rules bodies includes the conduct of negotiations involving 
anti-dumping, subsidies (including fisheries subsidies) and countervailing measures, the 
review of Members' notifications of domes tic legislation and contingent trade remedy 
actions, review of substantive subsidy no tifications, and review of notifications 
concerning state-trading enterprises.  During the year 2003, some 47 new notifications of legislation were reviewed, as well as 36 subsidy notifications.  The respective Committees also reviewed 76 semi-annual re ports of anti-dumping and countervailing 
duty actions, and 94 notificati ons with respect to safeguard actions (each safeguard 
investigation results in multiple notifications ).  Twenty-nine notifications with respect 
to state-trading enterprises were reviewed during the year. 
• In addition to their regular work, several  of the Rules area bodies had significant 
additional matters before them for c onsideration during 2003.  These included 
numerous consultations and discussions by  Members concerning the SCM Committee's 
mandated standstill and transparency revi ew relating to 53 decisions concerning 
transition periods for phasing out export s ubsidy programmes of 21 developing country 
Members, which resulted in 45 decisions ta ken on the programmes of 20 Members.  
The SCM Committee also adopted new procedur es for review of subsidy notifications 
and a revised subsidy notification format, following numerous discussions among Members, based on draft texts prepared by Division staff.  The Safeguards Committee, 
continuing the implementation work of the previous year, considered and reported on 
the African Group's S&D proposal on Article 9 of the Safeguards Agreement.  The 
Working Party on STEs adopted a recommendation, based on a draft prepared by Division staff, concerning the frequency of  notifications, which was subsequently 
approved by the Council for Trade in Goods.  Division staff prepared updated materials 
for determination of deve loping countries' status under Annex VII of the SCM 
                                                     
 
3 The bodies serviced by the Rules Division are:  Negotiating Group on Rules, Committee on 
Anti-Dumping Practices, Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, Committee on Safeguards, 
Committee on Trade in Civil Aircraft, Working Party on State Trading Enterprises, Permanent Group of 
Experts, Informal Group on Anti-Circumvention, Working Group on Implementation of the Agreement on 
Anti-Dumping, and Working Party on Subsidies Notifications. 
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Agreement, and ensured the calculation of export competitiveness figures at the request 
of Members in the context of the SCM Agreement.   
• Division staff had significant work in connec tion with the preparations for the Cancún 
Ministerial meeting, including prepari ng background and briefing materials for 
management, participating in the meeting,  and working with the Chairman of the 
Negotiating Group and delegations on Rules area issues, such that a broad consensus on 
Ministerial Declaration text in this area was achieved without significant controversy.   
Objectives 2, 3, 4, and 5
 (From WT/BFA/SPEC/82 at p. 94): 
 (iii) Monitor implementation of the WTO Agreemen ts in the areas of anti-dumping, subsidies and 
countervailing measures, safeguards, state trading and civil aircraft and actively assist in their 
implementation. 
 (iv) Provide all necessary implementation assistan ce, counselling and expert advice to Members 
concerning the above Agreements. 
 
(v) Provide "hands on" expertise and techni cal assistance to trade remedy investigating 
authorities in developing countries. 
 (vi) Actively participate in the WTO technical assistance programme. 
 
• The Division continued its active progr amme of implementation and technical 
assistance, and providing expert advice to de legations and national administrations in 
the area of contingent trade remedies and s ubsidy disciplines.  As servicing dispute 
settlement panels continued to occupy a si gnificant portion of the Division's workload, 
the Division found itself unable to respond to all requests from Members, and was obliged to limit the number and scope of  its specific projects in this regard.  
Nonetheless: 
• Members of the Division undertook 25 technical assistance and training missions during 
the year.  Of these, 13 were regional semina rs for African (4), Latin American (2), 
Asian (2), Central and Eastern European (2), and Caribbean and Pacific Members (3), covering multilateral subsidies disciplines, contingent trade remedies, notification obligations, the DDA negotiations, and dis pute settlement.  Division staff conducted 
12 country-specific training missions, in Africa (1), Latin America (2), Asia (3), Central 
and Eastern Europe (1), and Caribbean/Pacifi c (5).  These covered multilateral subsidies 
disciplines, advanced conduct of contingent trade remedy investigations, notification 
obligations, and development of national le gislation.  Not including travel and 
preparation time, which was considerable, Division staff devoted 99 work-days to technical assistance missions. 
• In the context of the DDA assistance programme, Division staff assisted developing 
countries in the context of the Negotiating Group on Rules, providing regular informal 
meetings with delegates of developing countries ( inter alia , Venezuela, Jamaica, Brazil, 
Argentina, Pakistan, Paraguay, Uganda, Colo mbia, Chile and Algeria) and briefings to 
the African and Arab Groups on progress in the Rules area negotiations. 
• In the area of implementation assistance to individual countries, Division staff assisted 
in preparing and/or reviewed draft legisla tions of three Members regarding contingent 
trade remedies.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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• Division staff responded to approximately 30 requests monthly for specific, detailed 
advice on issues arising in the implementation and administration of anti-dumping, countervailing, and safeguards mechanisms, as  well as requests for advice on applicable 
subsidy disciplines, fulfilment of notificati on obligations, relating to both procedural 
and substantive issues in the notificati on of subsidy programmes, state trading 
enterprises, and contingent trade remedy acti ons, and requests for advice to countries in 
the process of accession concerning their oblig ations under the Agreements within the 
Division's area of competence, including the separate process of accession to the 
plurilateral Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft. 
• Members of the Division lectured on anti-dumping, subsidies and countervailing 
measures, and safeguards as well as state-trading enterprises and developments in the Rules area negotiations, at the Trade Policy Courses and Geneva Weeks held in Geneva 
over the course of the year, presenting lect ures over some 20 full work-days (excluding 
preparation time).  
• Division staff also spoke on these topics and on notification obligations, at the request 
of the Technical Cooperation Division and of IMRD, to visiting delegations from 
Members' capitals and countries in accession, as well as to individual representatives of 
Members . 
• Division staff completed work on the Handbook on Anti-Dumping Investigations.  The 
Handbook, co-published with Cambridge University Press, appeared in 
September 2003, and more than 1,100 copies have been sold to date. 
• Division staff completed a model law for count ervailing duty investigations, which is 
available to Members on request, and con tinued work on a Handbook for countervailing 
measure investigations. 
• Division staff continued upkeep and improvement of the divisional data-bases on 
anti-dumping and countervailing actions, respondi ng to an average of four requests per 
week for statistical information on such actions. 
• Division staff continued to revise and update training materials used in presentation of 
technical assistance. 
• Division staff attended several meetings of  the OECD Group of Participants to the 
Arrangement on Guidelines for Officially Supported Export Credits, to monitor developments in response to WTO actions, and provide expert advice as requested.  Division staff attended some ten meetings  of the Disciplines Study Group and the 
High-Level Group on Steel, which work is be ing related to the Rules Negotiations by 
Members.  Division staff took part in the Model WTO held by the University of St. Gallen, JITAP (presentation on Rules negotiations), and the UNCTAD Experts Meeting on Programmes and Policies for T echnology Development and Mastery and 
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Objective 6
 (From WT/BFA/SPEC/82 at p. 94): 
 (vii) Provide legal officers and secretaries to WT O dispute settlement panels involving the rules 
area Agreements. 
 
• A significant proportion of the Division's workload is related to the large and increasing 
number of dispute settlement cases.  On average, at least half of all WTO dispute settlement panels are in the Rules area.  Division staff served as secretary and legal officer to 14 panels established or ope rating during 2003, served as secretary to one 
panel ( Canada-Wheat and Grain ) and assisted or advised other divisions on issues 
within the Division's competence concerning two panels (Argentina-Peaches and 
US-Steel Safeguard ).  The work of these panels involved more than 30 meetings with 
panellists and with parties, most of which extended over several days, and the 
preparation of numerous memoranda concerni ng various issues to be considered and 
resolved and drafting and preparation of descriptive parts and findings, as requested by the panellists, as well as internal meetings, particularly in cases where Division staff 
assisted other divisions.  In addition, the Panel in Korea-Commercial Vessels  involved 
additional procedures under Annex V of the SC M Agreement for gathering information, 
while the Panel in  US-Cotton Subsidies  has generated a significantly larger-than-usual 
number of submissions, meetings, and interc hanges between the Panel and parties.  
Reports were issued in four Panels ( EC–Malleable Cast Iron Pipe Fittings, 
Argentina-Poultry, US–Sunset Review on Steel from Japan, US–Final CVD on 
Softwood Lumber ).  Work was begun or underw ay on ten Panels ( US-Final Dumping 
Determination on Softwood Lumber, US-Cotton Subsidies, US-ITC Investigation in 
Softwood Lumber, US-Sunset Review of OCTG from Argentina, Korea-Commercial Vessels, US-Cement from Mexico, US-OCT G from Mexico, Mexico-Beef and Rice, 
US-DRAMs from Korea, and EC-DRAMs from Korea ).  Division staff assisted 
Members in composing ten panels over th e course of 2003, involving three-five 
meetings in each case, and resort to appointm ent by the Director General in five cases, 
requiring additional meetings and preparation. 
Objective 7
 (From WT/BFA/SPEC/82 at p. 94): 
 (viii) Support senior management and other Divisions  in all matters relating to the rules area. 
 
• Division staff prepared numerous notes and background materials for senior 
management on matters in the Rules area, and provided oral briefings on these matters as requested.  Division staff also provide d statistical and background information on 
contingent trade remedy actions and Rules ar ea matters in general to other Divisions, in 
particular in connection with Trade Policy  Reviews and the Director-General's annual 
overview. 
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Technical Cooperation Audit  
  
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 92,300 91,197 1,103
Temporary Assistance 24,000 93,288 (69,288)
 
B.  Administrative  
 Costs   
Permanent Equipment 2,400 0 2,400
Expendable Equipment  
Contractual Services 
    Office Automation 2,000 
0 2,000
 
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs  
Missions  
    Official     Technical Cooperation 70,000 
43,007 26,993
Representation and   
    Hospitality 800 265 535
 
Total 191,500 227,757 (36,257)
 
* Including higher category staff. 
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Technical Cooperation Audit
 
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
  
Objectives
: 
 (i) Monitoring and evaluation of all TA activities carried out by the WTO, including trade policy 
courses in the regions and in Geneva.  On that basis, input into planning and design of such 
activities. 
  The above objective has been achieved as evidenced by the activities, outputs and effects indicated under the end-results below.   The achievements of TCA in 2003 should be seen in the light of 
scarce staff resources (one professional and a secretary).  The Director of TCA was appointed Director of 
the newly established ITTC  in February 2003 and his successor was a ppointed in July 2003.  It should be 
noted that during this period of time the level of activities could not have been carried on without the 
financial support of DFID (short-term consultancy).  This external financial support is scheduled to phase out in June 2004.  After that TCA will face a seriou s capacity deficit, whic h will jeopardize its 
performance.    
End-results
 
 
• TCA carried out on-site monitoring and evalua tion of eleven TA activities in the field, 
four less than in 2002. 
• During the period under review The unit became more proactive, i.e. regularly fed back 
comments and suggestions to the authors of particularly good or less-good self-evaluation reports. 
• It has introduced support services which are o ffered to TA providers during the design 
phase of a particular course or workshop.   They included a briefing and hands-on 
session on the basic evaluation concepts, tools and procedures.  These briefings concluded in a joint formulation of specific objectives and performance indicators for the TA in question.  The TA providers op ting for such a support services have learned 
the evaluation process and started using it without further assistance from TCA.  These 
briefings also provided an opportunity to  disseminate the lessons learned from the 
evaluation of TA and training activities. 
• A mid-term review of WTO Monitoring a nd Evaluation procedures was carried out 
examining the effectiveness, efficiency, re levance and sustainability of monitoring and 
evaluation in WTO.  It resulted in sugges tions for follow-up actions by ITTC and the 
ODs as well as in revised reporting forms (BTOR and PEF) for use by the TA providers.  The main conclusions and reco mmendations of the mid-term review were 
also discussed by the Technical Assi stance Management Committee (TAMC). 
• It has been agreed with providers of trai ning and outreach activities that in the future 
they will also apply the BTOR reporting format. 
• Project design and evaluation assistance was pr ovided for the preparatory work of the 
second phase of JITAP.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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• There has been a systematic maintenance of  the evaluation reports database, which now 
contains 145 evaluation reports prep ared in 2003 by TA providers. 
• Preparatory work has been carried out to open an evaluation web-page on the Intranet 
of WTO with a view to facilitate access to evaluative information and to lessons 
learned. 
• An Annual Report on evaluations of TA activities (WT/COMTD/W/111) was prepared 
and submitted to the COMTD.  It was discussed by the Members in May 2003. 
• Exchange of views with major donors took place in June 2003, which provided for a 
better understanding of their expectations  regarding monitoring and evaluation.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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Textiles Division
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 665,700 658,507 7,193
Temporary Assistance 15,900 56,245 (40,345)
 
B.  Administrative  
 Costs   
Permanent Equipment  
Expendable Equipment  
Contractual Services 
  (b) Office Automation  
 
 
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs  
Missions  
    Official 15,000 13,769 1,231
    Technical Cooperation  
Representation and   
    Hospitality 800 800 0
Miscellaneous  
 
Total 697,400 729,321 (31,921)
 * Including higher category staff. 
  
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Textiles Division  
 
 
Achievement of the Objectives of the Textiles Division for 2003  
  
(i) Counselling and technical advice to WTO Me mbers and countries in the process of accession 
on Members' rights and obligations and on the process of the implementation of the ATC and 
other textile matters. 
 
• Discussions were held and technical information was provided to a number of interested 
developing country Members with respect to  the provisions and implementation of the 
ATC.  This advice also covered textile -related activities in other agreements. 
• Discussions covered a range of issues in relation to the progress being made in the 
ATC's integration process;  what might be expected in the remaining years (2003-2004);  and, in the longer term, the possible impact on trade patterns after 2004.  In this context, and due to the imminent termination of the ATC at the end of 2004, 
discussions also covered the prospective structural adjustment challenges and 
opportunities facing both importing and exporting Members in a quota-free 
environment. 
• Assistance was provided to countries in the process of accession in relation to their 
obligations under the ATC and the benefits accruing to them as a result of the market 
access liberalization under the ATC. 
(ii) Technical and secretarial servi ce to the Textiles Monitoring Body. 
 
• The Secretary of the TMB is an officer of the Textiles Division.  Other Divisional staff 
are also involved in support work for the Body.  The TMB met 10 times in 2003, in some cases for more than one day.(See TMB report). 
(iii) Service to DSU panels in cases related to the ATC. 
 
• There were no panels in 2003 related directly  to the ATC.  The Division continued to 
monitor closely the panels involving textile and clothing products on which trade policy 
measures were applied under other agreemen ts such as the following:  US/India on 
Rules of Origin, and EC/India on EU special preferences. 
(iv) Information and advice to intergovernment al and non-governmental organizations, private 
sector, trade associations and academics. 
 
• In 2003, the Division worked with inter- governmental organizations:  International 
Trade Center (ITC), United Nations C onference on Trade and Development 
(UNCTAD), Economic Commission for Asia a nd the Pacific (ESCAP), International 
Textiles and Clothing Bureau (ITCB), International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) on both general textile trade matters and on technical cooperation activities.  It 
also maintained close cooperative relationshi ps with private sector organizations, in 
particular with regional and internationa l trade associations, informing them of 
developments in the implementation of th e ATC and in overall WTO activities.  The 
Division maintained contact with academ ics, commenting on papers they were 
preparing and exchanging views on the progress in the ATC. WT/BFA/W/115 
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(v) Close liaison with other WTO divisions in a ll matters relating to the textiles sector and 
participation in WTO training and technical coope ration functions.  Also in 2003, the Division 
was assigned responsibility post-Cancún fo r the "Sectoral Initiative on Cotton". 
 
• The Division maintained relations with othe r Divisions in a number of areas touching 
upon textile related matters.  Pa rticularly close liaison conti nued to be maintained with 
Market Access Division (textile, rules of or igin, tariffs, Negotiating Group on Market 
Access for non-agricultural products), and Ru les Division (anti-dumping, subsidies, 
safeguard cases involving textiles). 
• The Textiles Division participated in the Trade Policy Courses organized by the 
Training Institute presenting lectures on the provisions and functioning of the ATC and developments in international textile and clothing trade. 
• In the area of technical cooperation, in  2003 the Textiles Division organized regional 
seminars held in Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Lesotho, Vietnam;  participated in inter-governmental conferences on Cotton in Burkina Faso and of the ITCB in Egypt, plus a conference on the Future of Intern ational Trade in Textiles and Clothing 
organized by the European Commission in Bru ssels.  It also made presentations at the 
Regional Trade Policy Course held in Kenya.   Furthermore, the Division attended a 
number of conferences and meetings organized by private or semi-private sector 
associations, in Poland, Germany, Turkey , India, China and the United States. 
(vi) Maintain a broad knowledge base on political, economic and social developments in world 
textiles and clothing trade and in governme nt policies and actions in this area. 
 
• In addition to the specific responsibilities re lating to the implementation of the ATC, 
the Textiles Division maintains a broad knowledge base of trade policies and domestic economic/social policies of textile trading countries, based on information from different publications and from Internet sour ces.  Trade statistics were assembled and 
interpreted to identify changes in trading patte rns that affect Members, for use in all of 
the above activities of the Division. 
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Textiles Monitoring Body  
  
 
* Including higher category staff. Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 303,400 290,358 13,042
 Temporary assistance 6,900 (1,289) 8,189
  
B.  Administrative  
 Costs   
 Permanent Equipment 250 0 250
 Expendable Equipment  
 Contractual Services  
  
C.  Other costs Staff Overhead Costs  
 Missions  
     Official 
    Technical Cooperation 8,000
3,2002,918 
0 5,082
3,200
    -
 Representation and   
     Hospitality 17,000 14,973 2,027
  
Total 338,750 306,960 31,790WT/BFA/W/115 
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Textiles Monitoring Body
 
  
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003
 
  
(i) Contribute to the efficient functioning of th e TMB by providing full service to it in carrying 
out its tasks under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC). 
 
• As a standing body that has to meet regul arly, the TMB held ten formal meetings 
in 2003.  During these meetings, the TMB addr essed all the matters referred to it under 
different provisions of the ATC (restrictions notified on imports from recently acceded 
Members;  important aspects of the implementation of such restrictions;  transitional safeguard measures introduced during the period considered, etc.).  The TMB 
conducted a thorough and detaile d examination of all these issues in accordance with 
the requirements of the ATC.  In most cases, it decided to seek factual clarifications and 
additional information from the Members concerned which proved to be necessary to 
gain a full understanding of the issues involved, enabling also the TMB to take the appropriate actions with respect to each matter.  As a result, it could make the necessary findings, offer a number of observations and adopt recommendati ons, as appropriate.  
The efficient functioning of the TMB was facilitated by the continuous support 
provided by the Chair and the Secretaria t involving substantive, technical and 
administrative aspects alike, be they relate d to the preparation of meetings, the conduct 
of business during the meetings, or the follow-up to the meetings. 
(ii) Ensure timely processing and circulation of notifications addressed to the TMB and reports 
adopted by it, to WTO Members for their information. 
 
• The Secretariat ensured that all the notifi cations and other communications addressed to 
the TMB as well as the reports adopted by it were processed, translated and circulated 
to all WTO Members in a timely manner.  The TMB adopted reports of each meeting held;  in addition, it also provided an upda te to its annual report of 2002 (in the context 
of the preparation for the Cancún Minister ial Conference) as well as an annual report 
covering major developments in 2003. 
(iii) Assist the TMB, in particular, in the conduc t of its examination of any disputes that can be 
referred to it by WTO Members. 
 
• No formal dispute between WTO Member s was referred to the TMB in 2003.  
Nevertheless, the TMB examined a number of  complex and also often controversial 
issues, even though they did not amount to a dispute under the applicable provisions of 
the ATC.  Relying also on the assistance provi ded by the Chair and the Secretariat, the 
TMB was able to address all these matters, make the relevant findings and observations, 
and reach conclusions or adopt recommenda tions, whenever such conclusions or 
recommendations were warranted.  In par ticular, it adopted recommendations in one 
case and issued an invitation in another to a Member maintaining restrictions on imports 
from certain newly acceded Members.  Also, the TMB conducted a thorough and very 
detailed review of the transitional safeguard measures notified, on the basis of which it 
could pronounce itself on the justification of the measures taken in accordance with the applicable provisions of the ATC.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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(iv) Provide assistance to the TMB in preserving transparency on all matters related to its 
activities. 
 
• Providing assistance to the TMB in the preparation, conduct and follow-up of its 
meetings included the preparation of all the draft reports, containing a detailed 
description of the TMB's examination, fi ndings, observations and conclusions with 
respect to each of the issues involved.  Th ese drafts formed a reliable basis for the 
TMB's adoption of its reports by consensus.   Ensuring transparency was also germane 
to the TMB's decision to remind WTO Members (on two occasions during 2003) of the importance of their adherence to the notifi cation requirements specified in the ATC.  
Thus every effort has been made to ensu re the necessary transparency regarding the 
implementation of the ATC and on all matters related to the work carried out by the 
TMB. 
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Trade and Environment Division
 
  
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 1,322,300 1,236,514 85,786
Temporary Assistance 2,000 44,582 (42,582)
 
B.  Administrative  
 Costs   
Permanent Equipment 3,000 835 2,165
Expendable Equipment  
Contractual Services  
 
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs  
Missions  
    Official 50,000 32,198 17,802
    Technical Cooperation  
Representation and   
    Hospitality 800 365 435
Miscellaneous  
      Other/ISO 57,500 57,368 132
 
Total 1,435,600 1,371,862 63,738
 
* Including higher category staff.   WT/BFA/W/115 
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Trade and Environment Division  
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
 
 
1. Trade and Environment  
 
Objectives  
 (i) To provide efficient service to the regular Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE) in 
pursuing the work programme agreed by Ministers and conducti ng negotiations under 
paragraph 31 of the Doha Declaration in the Special Session. 
 (ii) 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 matte rs covered by, or under 
negotiations, in Multilateral Envi ronmental Agreements (MEAs). 
 (iii) To provide technical assistance  
Realization
 
 
• Since the Doha Ministerial Session, the CTE work  has split into two separate tracks:  (i) the 
negotiating track (Paragraph 314) conducted in the CTE Special Session (CTESS), and, (ii) the 
regular work of the CTE (Paragraphs 32, 33 and 51), conducted under the CTE Regular. 
 
• The CTESS work in 2003, spanning over three meetings, was guided by paragraph 31 of the 
Doha Ministerial Declaration.  The Division also  assisted with the preparation of the relevant 
text for the Cancún Ministerial Meeting. 
 
• The CTE Regular continued with its work pursuant to the mandate contained in the 
Doha Declaration, and met four times during 2003. 
 
• The objectives stated in bullets two and thr ee were implemented th rough a programme of 
technical assistance with the organization of five  regional seminars for developing countries.  
The WTO Secretariat continued with the practice of inviting two government officials from 
the countries of their region, one from the Ministry dealing with WTO issues and another one from the Ministry or agency dealing with th e environment.  The main objective was to 
promote a better understanding of WTO rules among environment officials as well as to brief 
trade officials from the capitals of the countries concerned on the work of the CTE in Geneva.  
Some of the technical assistance activities were carried out in coordination with UNCTAD and 
UNEP 
 
• The division also participated in the organization of the WTO Symposium that was held in 
May 2003. 
 
                                                     
 
4 Paragraph numbers refer to the Doha Mini sterial Declaration un less otherwise stated. WT/BFA/W/115 
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2. Technical Barriers to Trade
 
 
Objectives  
 
(i) To give the best possible service to the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade. 
 
(ii) To provide technical assistance.  
Realization
 
 
• The TBT Committee held three Committee meetings in 2003. 
 
• The Secretariat assisted the development of a demand-driven TBT-related technical 
assistance programme as confirmed and mandated by Ministers at Doha.  A workshop was held on TBT-related technical assistance in April 2003. 
 
• It assisted with carrying out the mandate provided by Ministers to address the 
outstanding implementation issues as well as the annual transitional review mandated 
in the Protocol of Accession of the People's Republic of China. 
 
• It assisted with the preparation and conduc t of the Third Triennial Review of the 
Committee held in October-November 2003. 
 
• In 2003, six regional and seven national semi nars were held, in addition to workshops 
and technical missions on TBT matters. 
 
• 53 working documents and 794 TBT notifi cations were prepared and issued. 
 
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Trade and Finance Division  
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 1,070,500 1,043,727 26,773
Temporary Assistance 800 7,962 (7,162)
 
B.  Administrative   
 Costs Permanent Equipment 2,500 0 2,500
Expendable Equipment  
C.  Other Costs Contractual Services 
  (b) Office Automation  
   
Missions  
    Official 55,000 43,891 11,109
 
Representation and  
    Hospitality 800 108 692
 
Total 1,129,600 
1,095,689 33,911
 
* Including higher category staff. WT/BFA/W/115 
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Trade and Finance Division
 
  
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003
 
  
(i) Work in 2003 under the Doha Ministerial Mandate 
 
• The Division serviced the Working Groups on Trade and Investment and on Trade, 
Debt and Finance under their Doha mandates.  Each Working Group held two formal meetings, which the Division organised in collaboration with the Chairs.  The Division 
produced background documents as well as reports  on these meetings, and drafts of the 
reports of the Working Groups to the Genera l Council in mid-year.  The Division also 
serviced 12 informal meetings of the Working Groups to agree on reports to the General 
Council and to contribute to relevant sections of the draft Cancún Ministerial Declaration.  Twenty-seven technical assistance missions on Trade and Investment 
under the Doha mandate were organised and ca rried out by the Division in 2003.  The 
Division serviced three formal and nine informal meetings of the Committees on 
TRIMs (including through the Council for Trade in Goods) and on Balance-of-Payments Restrictions (BOPs) to carry forward the work on S&D and Implementation issues under the Doha mandate.  The Division assisted in servicing proceedings on Singapore Issues, Coherence, and Trade, De bt and Finance at the Cancún Ministerial 
Conference. 
(ii) Work in 2003 under regular WTO mandates 
 
• The Division serviced meetings of the TR IMs and BOPs Committees to carry out the 
second annual reviews of the Transitional Review Mechanism of China's Protocol of Accession, and five meetings of the Council for Trade in Goods at which the Article 9 
Review of the TRIMs Agreement and th e monitoring of transition periods for 
extensions were discussed. 
• The Division delivered technical assistance on TRIMs, BOPs, Trade, Debt and Finance, 
and Trade and Investment issues through training courses in Geneva, Morocco and 
Kenya and through Geneva Week, as well thr ough regular contacts with delegations in 
Geneva which included comments on draft le gislation and briefings on work underway 
on these issues. 
• The Division serviced the General Council meeting on Coherence in May 2003, 
prepared the background documents and wrot e the report on the meeting.  Under the 
IMF/World Bank Co-operation agreements, st aff from the Division attended two IMF 
CWTO meetings, three IMF/World Bank re gular Board meetings, two IMFC Deputies 
meetings, the Spring meetings of the IMFC  and the Development Committee, and the 
IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings.  The Divi sion also attended the Annual Meeting of 
the Inter-American Development Bank at whic h Coherence issues were discussed.  The 
Division oversaw implementation of the WT O/World Bank strategy plan, collaborated 
with IMF and World Bank staff on the preparation of new initiatives to provide technical and financial support for adjustment  associated with implementation of the 
results of the Doha negotiations, and collabor ated with IMF staff and the private sector 
on the preparation of the Director-General's initiative on trade-financing.   WT/BFA/W/115 
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• The Division participated in 12 meetings with NGOs and the private sector, and two 
meetings with parliamentarians, on issues under its responsibility.  
• The Division produced about 100 briefing notes for senior management, and ten 
economic briefings for the Director-General, in 2003. WT/BFA/W/115 
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Trade in Services Division
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 1,968,800 1,834,116 134,684
Temporary Assistance 71,000 152,258 (81,258)
 
B.  Administrative  
 Costs   
Permanent Equipment  
Expendable Equipment  
Contractual Services  
  (b) Office Automation  
 
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs  
Missions  
    Official 39,700 27,342 12,358
    Technical Cooperation  
Representation and   
    Hospitality 800 800 0
 
Total 2,080,300 2,014,516 65,784
 
* Including higher category staff.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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Trade in Services Division  
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
  
• The objectives of the Division have been larg ely obtained in 2003.  The year 2003 was the 
fourth year in the new round of negotiations  on services, implying an intensive technical 
assistance programme involving a ll members of the Division.  In total, 77 missions were 
conducted during 2003 and of these 40 were for technical assistance.  Most technical 
assistance missions are conducted by two staff members.   
• The negotiations are on new commitments in all services sectors as well as on new 
disciplines under the GATS including the clarification of some aspects of the Agreement itself.  They are taking place in the Special Session of the Council for Trade in Services 
and involve all of the four subsidiary bodies.  The Services Division provided support for all of these bodies with a total 36 formal and 17 informal meetings being organized 
during 2003.  A good part of the efforts in the Special Session of the Services Council were 
devoted to the preparation for the Cancún Mi nisterial.  The Division also provided 
Secretariat support and legal advice to panels  dealing with services disputes, one case 
involving a US-Mexico disput e on telecommunications, the other was Antigua and 
Barbuda-US on gambling services. 
• The Council for Trade in Services, its Spec ial Session and subsidiary bodies, established 
under the GATS, held the following meetings:  
• The Council for Trade in Services (Regular), six formal and two informal 
meetings; 
 
• The Special Session for Council for Trade in Services, ten formal and six 
informal meetings; 
 
• The Committee on Financial Services, five  formal and two informal meetings; 
 
• The Committee on Specific Commitments, five formal meetings and one 
informal. 
 
• The Working Party on Domestic Regulation (in developing disciplines under 
Article VI:4), 5 formal meetings and 1 informal; 
 
• The Working Party on GATS Rules (i n developing disciplines relating to 
Subsidies and Government procurement of services, and on safeguards since 
negotiations on that subj ect were not comple ted by December 2000 ), five formal 
and three informal meetings. 
 
• In addition, the Division also: 
• Provided support for the Working Parties on Accession of new Members in 
relation to services.  
 
• In 2003, the members of the Division part icipated in four training courses each 
involving a three-day services segment. 
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• By various means the staff of the Divisi on continued dissemination of information 
on, and clarification of, various aspect s of the GATS, and provided advice and 
assistance to Geneva-based delegations as well as Capital-based officials and experts.  
 
• Monitored the implementation of the GATS in terms of notifications and 
implementation of existing  and new commitments.  
 
• Provided technical assistance and advi ce to delegations in relation to the 
submission and the circulation of their initial offers in the Services negotiations. 
 
• Provided support to and briefed senior  management on all matters relating to 
services.  
 
• Maintained and extended contacts wi th private sector organizations.  
 
• The results of the work of the Division are mainly represented in significant progress, 
essentially through technical work towards the obj ective laid down in Article XIX - i.e. the 
achievement of a progressively higher level of liberalization.   An important part of the 
progress achieved in 2003 is the completion of  the negotiating architecture by the adoption 
of the Guidelines for the Special Treatment for LDCs in the Negotiations.  This would 
hopefully facilitate the engagement of LDCs in the negotiations.  
• In some areas of rule-making, however, which are seen by Members as facilitating the 
negotiation of specific commitments, little progress has been achieved.  The deadline for the negotiations on safeguards has been extended indefinitely. 
• The results of work in the area of technical assi stance is reflected in fuller participation in 
the negotiations and in all aspects of trade in services by developing countries, especially 
the smaller and less developed among them. 
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Trade Policies Review Division  
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 3,953,000 3,673,412 279,588
Temporary Assistance 3,000 187,104 (184,104)
 
B.  Administrative  
 Costs   
Permanent Equipment 3,000 3,000 0
Expendable Equipment  
Contractual Services 
  (b) Office Automation  
 
 
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs  
Missions  
    Official 220,000 197,554 22,446
    Technical Cooperation  
Representation and   
    Hospitality 800 592 208
 
Total 4,179,800 4,061,662 118,138
 * Including higher category staff. 
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Trade Policies Review Division
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
 
 
As noted in WT/BFA/SPEC/82 the Trade Policies Review Division (TPRD) is the 
Secretariat's functional arm for the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) and  the focal point on 
matters related to the relationship between th e WTO and regional trade agreements (RTAs). 
  On the TPRM, pursuant to Annex 3 of the WT O Agreement, the objectives of the TPRD are:  
to prepare coherent reports that contribute to gr eater transparency in, and understanding of, the trade 
policies and practices of Members;  provide the Secretariat for meetings of the Trade Policy Review 
Body;  draft the Director-General 's Annual Overview of trade policy developments;  and, in the 
context of the review process, increasingly be invol ved in technical cooperation activities, particularly 
in respect of the Integrated Framework.  
 On RTAs, TPRD's objective is to service both the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements 
(CRTA) and, for the negotiations on RTA disci plines and procedures as mandated in the Doha 
Ministerial Declaration, the Negotiating Group on Rules.  The Division is also increasingly provides technical cooperation in the area.  With all but one Member now party to an RTA, there is growing synergy, particularly with respect to transparen cy, between the Division's work on RTAs and trade 
policy reviews. 
 
 To the above ends, for the TPRB
, in consultation with Members, a programme of Reviews 
was established (with the Members involved no ted in WT/BFA/SPEC/63);  the DG's Annual 
Overview was planned;  and a plan of technical c ooperation (for, in chronological order, the Southern 
African Customs Union countries (Botswana, Le sotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland), 
Guyana, Mauritania, Dominican Republic, Niger, Se negal, The Gambia, Honduras, Rwanda, Benin, 
Burkina Faso and Mali) was detailed in conjunction with ITTC.  On RTAs , a programme of work was 
established, in consultation with the Chair, fo r the CRTA, and as well for the RTA aspects of the 
Negotiating Group on Rules, also in consultation with the Chair and Members;  a Seminar on 
Regionalism and the WTO, open to all Members, was planed for November 2003, and a programme 
of technical cooperation was drawn in cooperation with ITTC. 
 
 The expected result of the work plan w as the timely and efficient completion of the 
programmes for both the trade policy reviews and the RTA involvement of TPRD.  Result
 
 
• On the review aspects  of TPRD's work, the TPRD programme was completed as 
scheduled, except that the planned Review of  Rwanda (for late 2003) was postponed into 
early 2004;  this facilitated the completion of the Review of Haiti, which had been 
prepared in 2002 but which the Haitian delega tion was not able to attend at the last 
moment.  Thus in 2003, 17 Reviews, counting the Southern African Customs Union as 
one, were successfully completed.  These Revi ews entailed 32 meetings.  In preparation 
of the reviews, including those scheduled for the first part of 2004, there were 24 missions;  in addition there were tw o missions on the results of reviews. 
 
• The DG's Annual Overview of Developments in the International Trading Environment 
was drafted but its issuance was delayed in vi ew of the activity leading up to the final 
General Council meeting of 2003 and
 to coordinate appropriately with the newly-
launched World Trade Report.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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• In cooperation with ITTC, main streaming/TPR preparation seminars – in the Members as 
noted above – were held as scheduled.  In addition, the Division led a Trade Policy 
Clinic in Sierra Leone, participated in tr aining courses and/or seminars in Barbados, 
Bolivia, Cameroon, Kenya, St. Vincent and th e Grenadines, and Pakistan, and took part 
in IF missions to Mauritania and Senegal. 
 
• On the RTA  aspects of TPRD's work, there were two formal, and two informal, meetings 
of the CRTA, held as scheduled.  There were also five formal, as well as eight informal 
meetings on the RTA component of the Negotiating Group on Rules under the DDA;  in this context, the Division prepared five info rmal discussion papers (on transparency) by 
the Chair, worked in conjunction with th e Legal Division on two Job-numbered papers 
on legal aspects related to RTAs, and prepared two background notes on transparency 
and the work of the CRTA.  The Division also prepared, together with the Legal 
Division, a paper on RTAs under the Enabling Clause for the CTD. 
 
• The planned "Seminar on Regionalism and the WTO" was successfully held as planned 
in November 2003.  In preparation the Division prepared a revised version of 
"Landscape:  Regional Trade Integration under Transformation". 
 
• In cooperation with ITTC, the Division al so undertook four missions on RTA matters 
and participated in the Stability Pact Ministerial meeting. 
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Appellate Body and its Secretariat
 
 
 
Part Section Budget Expenditure Balance 
     
A.  Work years* Salary 2,192,800 2,011,831 80,969
Temporary Assistance 36,000 47,997 (11,997)
 
B.  Administrative  
 Costs Communications  6,500 5,094 1,406
Building facilities 18,000 15,000 3,000
Permanent Equipment 44,000 32,114 11,886
Expendable Equipment 17,700 9,928 7,772
Contractual Services 15,000 12,315 2,685
 
C.  Other Costs Staff Overhead Costs 7,000 28,968 (21,968)
Missions  
    Official 10,000 7,383 2,617
    Technical Cooperation  
Representation and   
    Hospitality 1,000 1,041 (41)
Miscellaneous  
      Appellate Members 618,200 624,155 (5,955)
    Library 5,000 4,108 892
    Public Information 
activities  
    Other 0 14,110 (14,110)
Appellate Body 
Operating Fund ABOF 0 
819,775 (819,775)
 
Total 2,971,200 3,633,819 (662,619)
 * Including higher category staff.  WT/BFA/W/115 
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Appellate Body and its Secretariat  
 
 
Assessment on reaching the stated objectives for 2003  
 (i) To enable the Appellate Body to hear and decide appeals from panel reports pursuant to the 
provisions of the DSU. 
  In 2003, the Appellate Body Secretariat assisted the Appellate Body in its consideration of the 
following appeals: 
 
 Appeals
: 
 
• United States – Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000  (carried over 
from 2002); 
• European Communities – Anti-Dumping Duties on Imports of Cotton-Type Bed Linen 
from India – Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by India ; 
• European Communities – Anti-Dumping Duties on Malleable Cast Iron Tube or Pipe 
Fittings from Brazil ; 
• United States – Definitive Safeguard Measures on Imports of Certain Steel Products ; 
• Japan – Measures Affecting the Importation of Apples ; 
• United States – Sunset Review of Anti-Dumping Duties on Corrosion-Resistant Carbon 
Steel Flat Products from Japan ;  and 
• United States – Final Countervailing Duty Determination with Respect to Certain 
Softwood Lumber from Canada  (carried over into 2004). 
(ii) To continue to provide an e fficient, independent Secretariat to service and assist the Appellate 
Body in its functions. 
 
• The Secretariat has continued to provide e fficient and independent administrative and 
legal support to the Appellate Body in cons idering appeals from panel reports and to 
individual Appellate Body Members in ser ving as arbitrators for arbitrations under 
Article 21.3(c) of the DSU; 
• The Secretariat prepared numerous research papers and assisted Appellate Body 
Members in the preparation of speeches and publications; 
• The Secretariat assisted the DSB in the selection process of a new Appellate Body 
Member and in the reappointment of  three Appellate Body Members. 
(iii) To manage a growing caseload effectively an d efficiently, while maintaining a high level of 
quality in the output of the Appellate Body. 
  See (i) and (ii) above, and (iv) below.  (iv) To carry out, effectively and efficientl y, other responsibilities (e.g. arbitrations under 
Article 21.3(c) of the DSU) assigned by WTO Members to the Appellate Body or its 
Members. 
 
• The Secretariat assisted individual Members of the Appellate Body who were appointed 
as arbitrators in the following two arbitrations under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU: WT/BFA/W/115 
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  Arbitrations
: 
 
• Chile – Price Band System and Safeguard Measures Relating to Certain 
Agricultural Products  (carried over from 2002); 
• United States – Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 . 
• The Secretariat assisted Appellate Body Members with the review of and consultations 
with WTO Members regarding certain amendments to the Working Procedures for 
Appellate Review  (the " Working Procedures ").  This resulted in a consolidated, revised 
version of the Working Procedures  (WT/AB/WP/7) that reflects amendments to 
Rules 1, 16(1), 18(5), 19, 24, 27(3), 28(3), and to Annex I, as discussed in 
WT/AB/WP/6. 
(v) To assist, as appropriate, with technical assi stance and other training activities of the WTO. 
  Technical Cooperation Missions
: 
 
 Staff of the Appellate Body Secretariat c onducted technical coopera tion missions (Dispute 
Settlement workshops, trade policy courses) in Englis h, French and Spanish, in Barbados, Burkina 
Faso, Dominica, Ghana, Hungary, Kenya, Lebanon, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New 
Guinea, Paraguay, The Philippines, Senegal, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Thailand and Uruguay. 
 
 Training Activities : 
 
 Staff of the Appellate Body Secretariat served as instructors in English, French and Spanish 
on dispute settlement in 8 Geneva-based trade polic y courses organized by the Institute for Training 
and Technical Cooperation.  They also delivered l ectures to officials from international organizations 
(UNCC), foreign government officials (UK, Egypt , Argentina), journalists, and several visiting 
student groups.   Conferences
: 
 
 Staff of the Appellate Body Secretariat le ctured at/attended conferences in Argentina, 
Belgium, Canada, Egypt, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.  Subjects covered included dispute 
settlement and international trade.   Speeches/Publications
: 
 
• "The WTO Appellate Body and Appellate Procedures", seminar organized by the 
Advisory Centre on WTO Law; 
• "The WTO Appellate Body and Appellate Pr ocedures", presentation to Organization of 
Women in International Trade; 
• "The WTO Dispute Settlement System", presen tation to the Lauterpact Research Centre 
for International Law, University of Cambridge; 
• "WTO Dispute Settlement:  Highlights and Tr ends", presentation to the Canadian Bar 
Association Annual Conference on International Law; 
• "Dispute Settlement at the Crossroads", presentation to the British Institute of 
International and Comparative Law Annua l Conference on WTO Dispute Settlement;  WT/BFA/W/115 
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• "Cost of International Dispute Settlement", pa per given at a roundtable organized by the 
Trade Law Center for Southern Africa and the Secretariat of the Southern African 
Development Community (SADC); 
• V.  Hughes, "Arbitration Within WTO", in  F. Ortino and E.-U. Petersmann (eds.)  The 
WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2003  (Kluwer Law International, The Hague); 
• T. Voon, "Commentary, European Communities – Anti-Dumping Duties on Imports of 
Cotton-Type Bed Linen from India ", International Trade Law Reports , Vol. VII, No. 1 
(2003), p. 6; 
• T. Voon, "Commentary, Argentina – Definitive Safeguard Measure on Imports of 
Preserved Peaches , International Trade Law Reports , Vol. VII, No. 3 (2003), p. 6. 
 
 
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