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TCA/M/32  
 
8 February 2016  
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Committee on Trade in Civil Aircraft    
 
MINUTES OF THE MEETING 
HELD ON 5 NOVEMBER 2015 
CHAIRPERSON: MR HSIAO-YIN WU (CHINESE TAIPEI) 
1. The Chair referred to the proposed agenda contained in document WTO/AIR/TCA/2. 
No requests were made by Signatories for "O ther business" items. The Committee adopted the 
agenda contained in document WTO/AIR/TCA/2. 
1. REVISION OF THE PRODUCT COVERAGE ANNEX OF THE 1979 AGREEMENT ON 
TRADE IN CIVIL AIRCRAFT 
2. The Chair first recalled that on 24 October 2015, in addition to the draft annual report, two 
room documents were made available to the Signat ories: (i) the transposed version of the Product 
Coverage Annex, which was found in document RD/TCA/1 and (ii) the draft of the prefatory 
language of the Protocol (2015) Amending the Anne x to the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft, 
which was found in document RD/TCA/2. 
 
3. The Chair referred to the fax dated 15 July 2015 which had been sent immediately after the 
meeting held on 15 July 2015 and recalled that the Signatories were very close at that meeting to 
reaching consensus on the draft protocol, but some Signatories needed more time, in particular 
due to the changes made to the prefatory language just before the meeting. In that fax, the Chair 
had asked the Signatories to confirm their agreement with the proposed text of the Protocol (2015) Amending the Annex to the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft (Protocol) no later than 
close of business of 15 September 2015. At the re quest of certain Signatories, the deadline had 
been extended to 30 September 2015. As reported in the Chair's letter dated 14 October 2015, no objection to the amendment of the Product Cove rage Annex (PCA) had been received. On the 
other hand, several Signatories had informed the Ch air that they needed more time to consider 
the exact procedure to formalize that amendment.  
4. After reconfirming for the record that he ha d heard no objection to the substance of the 
transposed version of the PCA which was found in  document RD/TCA/1, the Chair stated that the 
PCA would be open for acceptance using the prefatory language, which would be discussed now.   
5. The Chair then referred to room document RD/TCA/2, which was a revised prefatory 
language to go with the transposed PCA, and opened the floor for any comments on this document.  
6. No comments were raised by the Signatories. 
7. The Chair stated that as no objection had been raised, he took it that the Committee could 
now open the Protocol for acceptance.  
8. The Committee so agreed.
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9. Finally, the Chair stated that he had asked the Secretariat to follow-up this decision and 
report to the Signatories in due course, and as necessary. 
10. The Committee took note of the statements made. 
                                               
1 The Protocol was subsequently circulated as TCA/9. TCA/M/32 
 
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2. OTHER BUSINESS 
11. There were no items under this agenda item. 
3. DATE OF NEXT REGULAR MEETING 
12. The Committee agreed to hold its next regular meeting in November 2016, with the exact 
date to be confirmed in due course. 
4. ADOPTION OF THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2015 
13. The Committee adopted the annual report for 2015.2  
 
14. The meeting was adjourned. 
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2 Subsequently circulated as WT/L/963-TCA/10.