G/SCM/151  
 
28 February  2018 
(18-1293) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures    
 
PERMANENT GROUP OF E XPERTS  
NOTE FROM THE CHAIR  
Pursuant to Article 24.3 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, experts 
serving on the Permanent Group of Experts ("PGE") "will be elected by the Committee and one of 
them will be replaced every year". At  present, the members of the PGE are: Mr Chris Parlin  (US); 
Mr Subash Pillai (Malaysia); Mr Ichiro Araki (Japan);  and Ms  Luz Elena Reyes de la Torre (Mexico). 
The term of Mr Welber Barra l expire d in April 2017 and is still vacant. The term o f Mr Chris Parlin 
expires this  Spring. Accordingly, the Committee should elect two  new expert s to replace 
Mr Welber  Barra l and Mr Chris Parlin at its regular meeting which wi ll take place in the week of 
23 April 2018.  
 
To this end, I wish to inform Members  that I intend to follow the following  procedure s: 
 
 Deadline for nominations to fill these vacancies : 27 March 2018, close of business . Note 
that in the interest of transparency and fairness, the deadline will be strictly enforced. Any 
nomination received after the deadline will not be taken into consideration for the vacancies 
at issue.  
 
 Each nomination must  be accompanied by  a CV of the nominee. In order to streamline the 
assessment of nominations by Members, Nominating Members should also complete and 
return the attached "Summary CV" of the nominee. In their submissions, nominating 
Members are kindly invited to provide information only to the extent relevant to the duties 
and responsibilities of the PGE membership.  
 
 Nominations (including the CVs and Sum mary CVs ) should be submitted to the Secretary of 
the Committee, Mr Seref Gokay Coskun ( Seref.Coskun@wto.org ).  
 
The Secretariat will inform all delegations regarding the nominations received  by the deadline.  
 
Candidates proposed shall meet the requirement in Article 24.3 that the PGE be composed of 
independent persons, highly qualified in the fields of subsidies and trade relations.  
 
 Schedule for consultations with the Chair person : As necessary, I will be availab le during the 
week of 2 April  for individual consultations with interested delegations. I will provide in due 
course specific information on how to request such a meeting with me.  
 
 Reporting of progress : As necessary, following my individual consultations and well before 
the Committee meeting , I intend to convene an open -ended informal session to report in 
general terms on the progress of my consultations.  
 
 
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  SUMMARY CV OF  THE CANDIDATE NOMINATED FOR THE 
PERMANENT GROUP OF EXPERTS  
 
 
 
NOMIN ATING MEMBER:  
 
 
 
PERSONAL INFORMATION  
 
Name, Last Name:  
 
Email:  
 
Phone:  
 
 
AREAS OF EXPERTISE  
 
Areas of Expertise  
  Number of years of experience  
Subsidies and trade 
relations  
 :  
Subsidies and 
countervailing 
measures  
 :  
Other [Please indicate]  :  
 
 
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  
 
Current position : 
 
Other previous relevant positions:  
 
 
 
EDUCATION  
 
Date   [Name of the Institution] & [Title/degree received]  
 
Date   [Name of the Institution] & [Title/degree received]  
 
Date   [Name of the Institution] & [Ti tle/degree received]  
… 
 
 
 
 
** PLEASE ATTACH THE CV OF THE CANDIDATE AS A SEPARATE DOCUMENT  
 
 
 
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