RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE TCA/W/2
13January 1997
ORGANIZATION(97-0062)
Committee onTrade inCivil Aircraft
COMMITTEE ONTRADE INCIVIL AIRCRAFT
Decision of[date]
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 :
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;
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(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.