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WORLD TRADE TCA/W/2/Rev.1
23January 1997
ORGANIZATION(97-0248)
Committee onTrade inCivil Aircraft
COMMITTEE ONTRADE INCIVIL AIRCRAFT
Revision
Draft Decision1Proposed bytheChairman oftheCommittee
onTrade inCivilAircraft attheMeeting of7June1996
TheCommittee onTrade inCivilAircraft,
Whereas Article II.3oftheMarrakesh Agreement Establishing theWorld Trade Organization
(hereinafter "theWTO Agreement") provides thattheagreements andassociated legal instruments
included inAnnex 4arealsopartofthisAgreement forthose Members thathaveaccepted them;
Whereas Article IV.8oftheWTO Agreement provides thatthebodies provided forunder the
Plurilateral Trade Agreements shalloperate within theinstitutional framework oftheWTO;
WhereastheAgreementonTradeinCivilAircraftreferstoentitiesestablishedundertheauspices
ofGATT 1947aswellastomultilateral tradeagreements negotiated within theframework oftheTokyo
Round;
Whereas these entities ceased toexistasaresult ofthetermination ofGATT 1947;
Whereas mostofthese agreements havebeenterminated orareapplicable onlytotheextent
thattheyarecompatible withlateragreements relating tothesame subject matter;
Whereas thetermination ofGATT 1947andother instruments multilaterally negotiated under
theauspices ofGATT 1947 makes obsolete thereferences tothose Agreements intheAgreement on
Trade inCivil Aircraft;
Whereas, intheinterest ofclarity, itisappropriate fortheCommittee toadopt adecision on
themeaning ofthosereferences inthecontext resulting fromtheentryintoforceoftheWTO Agreement;
decides :
1Thisdecision hasnotbeenadopted bytheCommittee andiscirculated forpurposes oftransparency
only.
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Article 1
IntheAgreement onTrade inCivil Aircraft:
(a) references to"instruments multilaterally negotiated under theauspices oftheGATT" shallbe
deemedtobereferencestotheMarrakeshAgreementEstablishingtheWorldTradeOrganization
andtheagreements annexed thereto;
(b) references to"CONTRACTING PARTIES totheGATT" shallbedeemed tobereferences
totheMinisterial Conference oftheWTO;
(c) referencesto"governmentscontractingpartiestotheGATT"or"contractingpartytotheGATT"
shallbedeemed tobereferences toMembers oftheWTO;
(d) references tothe"Director General totheCONTRACTING PARTIES totheGATT" shall
bedeemed tobereferences totheDirector General oftheWTO;
(e) referencestothe"GATTSecretariat"shallbedeemedtobereferencestothesecretariatservicing
theWTO.
Article 2
Itisunderstood that,intheAgreement onTrade inCivil Aircraft:
(a) exceptinArticle9.1.2,referencesto"GATT"or"GeneralAgreement",ortoprovisionsthereof,
shallbedeemed tobereferences to,respectively, GATT 1994 ortoprovisions thereof;
(b) references totheAgreement onTechnical Barriers toTrade shallbedeemed tobereferences
totheAgreement onTechnical Barriers contained inAnnex 1AtotheMarrakesh Agreement
Establishing theWorld Trade Organization;
(c) references totheAgreement onInterpretation andApplication ofArticle VI,XVIandXXIII
oftheGeneral Agreement onTariffs andTrade shall bedeemed tobereferences tothe
Agreement onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures contained inAnnex 1AtotheMarrakesh
Agreement Establishing theWorld Trade Organization.
Article 3
ThisDecision onlyclarifies themeaning ofcertain provisions oftheAgreement onTrade in
Civil Aircraft. Itshallnotbeinterpreted asamending theAgreement onTrade inCivil Aircraft, and,
asaresult, doesnotrepresent thecompletion ofthenegotiations under Article 8.3oftheAgreement
onTradeinCivilAircraftstartedpursuanttotheDecisionoftheCommitteeof16July1992(AIR/M/32),
nordoesitmean thatspecific multilateral ruleshavebeenestablished within themeaning offootnotes 15
and24oftheAgreement onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures annexed totheWTO Agreement.