WORLD TRADE WT/DS27/9
13June1997
ORGANIZATION(97-2463)
Original: English
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES -REGIME FOR THE IMPORTATION,
SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OFBANANAS
Notification ofanAppeal bytheEuropean Communities under
paragraph 4ofArticle 16oftheUnderstanding onRules
andProcedures Governing theSettlement ofDisputes (DSU)
Thefollowingnotification,dated11June1997,sentbytheEuropeanCommunitiestotheDispute
SettlementBody(DSB),iscirculatedtoMembers.ThisnotificationalsoconstitutestheNoticeofAppeal,
filedonthesamedaywiththeAppellateBody,pursuanttotheWorking Procedures forAppellate Review .
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Pursuant toparagraph 4ofArticle 16oftheUnderstanding onRules andProcedures Governing
theSettlement ofDisputes (DSU) andRule20oftheWorking Procedures forAppellate Review, the
European Community hereby notifies itsdecision toappeal totheAppellate Body certain issues of
lawcovered inthefourpanel reports onEuropean Communities -Regime fortheImportation, Sale
andDistribution ofBananas (WT/DS27/R inthefourversions).
TheEuropean Community requests thattheAppellate Body review anumber oferrors oflaw
andcertain legalinterpretations developed bythePanel initsreport. These errors oflawandlegal
interpretations tobereviewed bytheAppellate Body include thefollowing:
(a) ThePanel erred inlawinfinding thattheComplainants 'panel request wassufficient tomeet
therequirements ofArticle 6.2oftheDSU.
(b) ThePanel erred inlawinfinding thattheUnited States hadalegalrightorinterest inadvancing
claims under theGATT.
(c) ThePanel erred inlawinitsinterpretation oftheAgreement onAgriculture and,inparticular,
ofArticles 4.1and21.1ofthatAgreement andtheirrelation totheGATT, inparticular its
Article XIII.
(d) Inthealternative: thePanel erred initsinterpretation ofArticle XIIIofGATT, inparticular
paragraph 2(d)(both inrelation totheallocation ofcountry shares intheTariff RateQuota
(TRQ)) forbananas andtothetariff quota reallocation rules oftheBanana Framework
Agreement (BFA).
(e) ThePanel erred inlawwhen ruling thattheergaomnes TRQ forbananas andthepreferential
regime forparties totheLomé IVConvention constitute asingle import regime forbananas.
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(f) ThePanel erred inlawinitsinterpretation ofthescope andcoverage oftheLomé IVwaiver
andoftherequirements resting ontheECunder theLomé IVConvention.
(g) ThePanel erred inlawinitsinterpretation ofArticle X:3a infinding thatoperator category
andactivity function rulesshould havebeenapplied alsotothetraditional banana imports under
theACP preferential scheme.
(h) ThePanel erred inlawinitsinterpretation ofArticle 1.3oftheLicensing Agreement, in
particular initsrelation toArticle X:3a ofGATT.
(i) ThePanel erred inlawinitsinterpretation ofArticle III:4oftheGATT asapplied totheEC
rulesonlicensing forthemanagement oftheTRQ, andmore particularly initsinterpretation
ofthenotion “competitive opportunities ”.
(j) ThePanel erred inlawinitsinterpretation ofArticle I:1ofGATT inrelation totheactivity
function rules andtheBFAexport certificates.
(k) ThePanel erred inlawinaccepting thatGATT andGATS aretwomutually overlapping
agreements andinfinding thatthemeasures complained ofinthepresent casefallsimultaneously
under GATT andGATS.
(l) ThePanel erred inlawinitsapplication ofrules ontheburden ofproof, more inparticular
under theGATS.
(m) ThePanel erred inlawinapplying GATS retroactively totheECbanana regime.
(n) ThePanel erred inlawinitsinterpretation ofArticle IIofGATS, inparticular byreading
elements ofcompetitive conditions intothearticle which arenotthere.
(o) ThePanel erred inlawinitsdefinition andapplication ofthescope ofthecategory “wholesale
trade services ”.
(p) Inthealternative: thePanel erred inlawinfinding thatcompetitive conditions under Articles
XVII andIIofGATS wereupset tothedetriment ofComplainants 'service suppliers inrespect
of:operator category rules, activity function rules, BFA export certificates andhurricane
licenses.
(q) ThePanel erred inlawinitsimplicit determination thattheUShassuffered nullification and
impairment under theGATT.
(r) ThePanel hasfailed initsobligation tomake anobjective assessment ofthematter before it
under Article 11oftheDSU, interaliawithrespect topoints (b),(i),(l)and(q)above.
(s) ThePanel hasfailed initsobligation tointerpret theWTO anditsannexed agreements in
conformity withthecustomary rulesofinterpretation ofpublic international lawunder Article
3.2oftheDSU, interaliawithrespect topoints (b)(k)and(m)above.