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G/AG/W/70/Rev.3 
4 November 2011 
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Committee on Agriculture  
 
 
 
COMPENDIUM OF DOCUMENTS ON  
IMPLEMENTATION-RELATED ISSUES 
Note by the Secretariat1 
Revision 
 
1. At its meeting on 4 December 2008, the Committ ee on Agriculture requested the Secretariat 
to prepare a compendium of documents that (i) ar e directly or indirectly relevant to the three 
implementation-related issues under its purview, and (ii)  have been circulated since its last report to 
the General Council, i.e. 13 June 2006.  This co mpendium will be elaborated and updated by the 
Secretariat, as may be required, on the understa nding that existing provisions, rather than the 
provisions that remain under negotiation as part of  the Doha Development Agenda, would be taken 
into account.2 
2. The three relevant implementation-related i ssues are referred to in the Decision of 
14 November 2001 by the Doha Ministerial C onference on Implementati on-Related Issues and 
Concerns and listed in paragra ph 2 of document WT/MIN(01)/17.3  The reports to the General 
Council on the follow-up by the Committee on Agricultu re are contained in G/AG/16 (dated 4 July 
2003) and G/AG/16/Add.1 (dated 13 June 2006). 
A. ARTICLE 10.2  OF THE AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE : DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONALLY -
AGREED DISCIPLINES TO GOVERN THE PROVISION OF EXPORT CREDITS , EXPORT CREDIT 
GUARANTEES OR INSURANCE PROGRAMMES , TAKING ACCOUNT OF PARAGRAPH 4 OF THE 
MARRAKESH NFIDC  DECISION  
3. The situation reflected in paragraphs 2- 4 of G/AG/16/Add.1 remains unchanged since 
13 June 2006, as the development of internationally-a greed disciplines continues to be pursued in the 
agriculture negotiations, taking account of paragr aph 4 of the Marrakesh NFIDC Decision, and 
without prejudice to the consideration of this ma tter in the regular Comm ittee on Agriculture at any 
time. 
                                                      
1 This document has been prepared under the Secret ariat's own responsibility and is without prejudice 
to the positions of Members or to their rights or obligations under the WTO. 
2 Such an approach would be subject to revision once the agriculture negotiations are concluded. 
3 This Decision takes note of the report of th e Committee on Agriculture in  document G/AG/11 (dated 
28 September 2001). G/AG/W/70/Rev.3 
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  B. E
XAMINATION OF POSSIBLE MEANS OF IM PROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE 
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MARRAKESH NFIDC  DECISION  
4. The annual monitoring exercise is undertaken at  the November meetings of the Committee on 
Agriculture on the basis, inter alia , of contributions by Members, including Table NF:1 notifications, 
as well as contributions by the observer internationa l organizations.  In addition, revised background 
notes for the purpose of facilitating the annual mon itoring exercise are circulated by the WTO 
Secretariat.  The WTO list of net food-importing developing countries for the purpose of the Marrakesh Decision is regularly reviewed at March meetings of the Committee on Agriculture.  Since 
13 June 2006: 
(a) three developing country Members namely Grenada, Maldives and Swaziland have 
been added to the WTO list
4 of NFIDCs; 
(b) the Table NF:1 notifications listed in Attach ment 1 have been circulated to Members; 
(c) the contributions by Members and interna tional observer organizations have been 
circulated in documents G/AG/GEN/73 dated 2 November 2006; G/AG/GEN/76 
dated 7 January 2008; G/AG/GEN/76/Add.1 dated 17 April 2008; G/AG/GEN/78 
dated 15 December 2008; G/AG/GEN/90 dated 27 November 2009; and 
G/AG/GEN/94 dated 20 December 2010; 
(d) revised background notes were circulated  by the Secretariat as follows:  
G/AG/W/42/Rev.9 dated 27 October 2006;  G/AG/W/42/Rev.10 dated 20 November 
2007;  G/AG/W/42/Rev.11 dated 18 Novemb er 2008;  G/AG/W/42/Rev.12 dated 
4 November 2009; G/AG/W/42/Rev.13 dated 15 October 2010; and 
G/AG/W/42/Rev.14 dated 21 October 2011. 
5. The background notes in the G/AG/W/42 series by the Secretariat provide a brief introduction 
on the follow-up process to the Marrakesh NFIDC D ecision as a whole as well as a description of the 
implementation of the substantive provisions in th e fields of international food aid; technical and 
financial assistance;  S&D treatment in the frame work of an agreement on export credits; and access 
to the resources of the intern ational financial institutions. 
6. Some other important food security-related events and initiatives since 13 June 2006 which 
might be deemed relevant to the impl ementation of the Marrakesh Decision, inter alia , include the 
following: 
(a) the LDC Group reported on a Conference on WT O rules and the food crisis organized 
in Geneva on 17 July 2008 in partnershi p with a research and development 
organization focusing on global issues.  The full report is contained in document 
G/AG/GEN/77 dated 11 November 2008; 
(b) in the context of the update of the Comp rehensive Framework for Action (CFA) of 
the UN High Level Task Force for the Global Food Security Crisis (HLTF), the WTO Secretariat participated in the Dublin dialogue held in May 2010.  The WTO 
Secretariat contributed, in particular, to the discussions in the working group on 
                                                      
4 Revised list is included in G/AG/5/Rev.9 dated 6 April 2011.  G/AG/W/70/Rev.3 
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  "trade and tax policies, and international food markets" which explored the linkages 
between food security and international trade5; 
(c) in July 2009, the WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division (AGCD) organized an 
information session for WTO Members inviting the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to present  his work on the linkages between trade in agriculture and 
the right to food.  Similarly in November 2010, on the occasion of the annual 
monitoring exercise, the AGCD organized an  information session inviting Mr. David 
Nabarro, the Coordinator of the UN High Level Task Force (HLTF) on the Global Food Security Crisis to address WTO Members and observer governments, as well as interested Secretariat staff, about the role and activities of the HLTF, with a particular 
reference to the Updated Compre hensive Framework for Action;  
(d) during the global financial crisis beginning in 2008 which resulted, inter alia , in 
serious shortage of trade finance, th e WTO worked with other multilateral and 
regional organizations to mobilize various actors to shoulder some of the risk arising from private sector financing and reduce the gap between demand and supply of trade 
finance.  The development of trade financ ing infrastructure has also been pursued 
under the Aid-for-Trade initiative.  Consider ing the situation of low income countries 
, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision,  in consultations with the WTO and 
other relevant organizations has adopted tec hnical changes to the regulatory regime of 
trade finance on 25 October 2011
6; 
(e) in the aftermath of the global food crisis in 2007/08, the Committee on World Food 
Security (CFS) was reformed at its 35th Session in October 2009.  These envisage that 
the CFS becomes the foremost inclusive inte rnational and intergovernmental platform 
dealing with global food security and nutrition.7  A t  i t s  3 6th Session, the reformed 
CFS, inter alia , mandated its newly constituted High  Level Panel of Experts on Food 
Security and Nutrition (HLPE) to undertak e a study on food price volatility and its 
causes and consequences.  The report on price volatility and food security by the 
HLPE was finalized in July 20118; 
(f) in the wake of a sudden surge in the glob al wheat prices from July 2010 onwards, the 
FAO convened an extraordinary meeting of  the Intergovernmental Groups (IGG) of 
Grains and Rice on 24 September 2010 to discuss the situation and possible remedial steps
9; 
(g) within the G-20 framework, the WTO Secretariat in collaboration with other 
multilateral agencies contributed to the preparation of report10 on "Price Volatility in 
Food and Agricultural Markets: Policy Responses".  Accepting one of the recommendations contained in the report, G-20 Agriculture Ministers agreed to launch the Agriculture Market Information System (AMIS) under their Action Plan 
on Food Price Volatility and Agriculture adopted in June 2011.
11  At the 63rd regular 
                                                      
5 After intensive collaboration and consultations with  various stakeholders, including at the Dublin 
meeting, the HLTF finalized the Updated Comprehensive Framework for Action (UCFA) in September 2010. 
Please refer to http://un-foodsecurity.org/   for more details.  
6 For more details, see http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs205.pdf   
7 See http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-home/en/  for details on the reforms of the CFS.  
8 The final report of the Panel is accessible at http://www.fao.org/c fs/cfs-hlpe/en/ . 
9 For more details, see http://www.fao.org/economic/est/en/ . 
10 The report is accessible at http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/n ews11_e/igo_10jun11_report_e.pdf . 
11 The Action Plan is accessible at http://un-foodsecurity.org/ . G/AG/W/70/Rev.3 
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  meeting of the Committee on Agriculture he ld in September 2011, the AGCD briefed 
Members on the participation of the WTO Secretariat in the AMIS initiative. 
C. A
DDENDA TO TABLE MA:1  NOTIFICATIONS ON TARIFF QUOTA ADMINISTRATION  
7. In accordance with the notification procedures adopted in June 199512, all Members having 
bound tariff quota commitments are required to subm it an up-front notification to the Committee on 
Agriculture.  Once this comprehensive one-off notif ication (Table MA:1) has been circulated, it 
should be followed by an ad hoc  notification if and when changes in Members' administration 
methods have been introduced. 
8. Additionally, several Members13 have also submitted addenda to their Table MA:1 
notifications pursuant to paragraph 1.1 of th e General Council Decision contained in document 
WT/L/384 of 19 December 2000, which provides that: 
"Members shall ensure that their tariff rate  quotas regimes (TRQs) are administered 
in a transparent, equitable and non-discriminatory manner.  In that context, they shall ensure that the notifications they provide to the Committee on Agriculture 
contain all the relevant information including details on guidelines and procedures 
on the allotment of TRQs.  Members administering TRQs shall submit addenda to 
their notifications to the Committee on Agri culture (Table MA:1) by the time of the 
second regular meeting of the Committee in 2001." 
9. Members continue to notify changes in the administration of tariff quotas in line with existing 
notification requirements as described in paragraph 7 above.
14  Since 13 June 2006, the Table MA:1 
notifications listed in Attachment 2 have b een circulated and reviewed by the Committee on 
Agriculture.  A document showing Members' complian ce with their respective notification obligations 
in all areas, including tariff quota administration, is regularly updated by the Secretariat and circulated 
as document G/AG/GEN/86 and any revisions thereto. 
 
 
                                                      
12 G/AG/2 dated 30 June 1995. 
13 Paragraph 14 of G/AG/16/Add.1 refers. 
14 See also paragraph 15 of G/AG/16/Add.1.  G/AG/W/70/Rev.3 
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  Attachment 1 
Table NF:1 notifications circulated since 13 June 2006 
 
Member  Symbol Implementation Year Issue Date 
Australia G/AG/N/AUS/68 2005 6 November 2007 
G/AG/N/AUS/71 2006 14 November 2008 
G/AG/N/AUS/75 2007 8 December 2009 
G/AG/N/AUS/75/Corr.1 2007 10 December 2009 
G/AG/N/AUS/81 2008 27 August 2010 
Canada G/AG/N/CAN/67 2004 13 July 2007 
G/AG/N/CAN/72 2005 24 November 2008 
G/AG/N/CAN/81 2006 8 November 2010 
G/AG/N/CAN/88 2007 3 November 2011 
Cuba G/AG/N/CUB/36 2003, 2004, 2005 22 July 2009 
G/AG/N/CUB/34 2006, 2007 10 December 2008 
G/AG/N/CUB/38 2008 9 September 2009 
G/AG/N/CUB/41 2009 18 August 2010 
G/AG/N/CUB/43 2010 18 October 2011 
European Union G/AG/N/EEC/56 2004, 2005 18 April 2008 
Japan G/AG/N/JPN/125 2003, 2004 5 March 2007 
G/AG/N/JPN/125/Corr.1 2003, 2004 14 March 2007 
G/AG/N/JPN/144 2005 2 March 2009 
G/AG/N/JPN/145 2006, 2007 27 March 2009 
G/AG/N/JPN/160 2008 1 December 2010 
New Zealand G/AG/N/NZL/45 2004 11 August 2006 
G/AG/N/NZL/45/Rev.1 2004 23 December 2008 
G/AG/N/NZL/56 2005, 2006 23 December 2008 
G/AG/N/NZL/56/Corr.1 2005, 2006 26 January 2009 
G/AG/N/NZL/60 2007, 2008 13 October 2009 
G/AG/N/NZL/68 2009 27 April 2011 
G/AG/N/NZL/71 2010 2 November 2011 
Norway G/AG/N/NOR/44 2004, 2005, 2006 20 November 2007 
G/AG/N/NOR/54 2007, 2008 6 November 2009 
G/AG/N/NOR/54/Rev.1 2007, 2008 4 November 2010 
G/AG/N/NOR/60 2009 4 November 2010 G/AG/W/70/Rev.3 
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  Member  Symbol Implementation Year Issue Date 
South Africa G/AG/N/ZAF/60 2004 16 January 2007 
G/AG/N/ZAF/67 2005 15 October 2008 
G/AG/N/ZAF/69 2006 9 September 2009 
G/AG/N/ZAF/72 2007, 2008 13 May 2011 
Switzerland G/AG/N/CHE/39 2003, 2004, 2005 30 November 2007 
G/AG/N/CHE/39/Corr.1 2003, 2004, 2005 12 December 2007 
G/AG/N/CHE/53 2006, 2007, 2008 6 January 2011 
United States G/AG/N/USA/56 2003 10 October 2006 
G/AG/N/USA/65 2004, 2005, 2006 21 November 2008 
G/AG/N/USA/76 2007, 2008 20 September 2010 
G/AG/N/USA/83 2009 26 October 2011  G/AG/W/70/Rev.3 
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  Attachment 2 
 
Table MA:1 notifications circulated since 13 June 2006 
 
Member Symbol Implementation 
Year Date issued Responses to 
Members' specific 
questions1 
Australia G/AG/N/AUS/1/Rev.1 1995 27 August 2010 - 
Canada G/AG/N/CAN/87 2011 3 November 2011 - 
Chile G/AG/N/CHL/20 2005 27 September 2006 - 
 G/AG/N/CHL/24 2006 21 March 2007 G/AG/R/49 
Colombia G/AG/N/COL/35/A dd.1 2009 13 January 2011 - 
Costa Rica G/AG/N/CRI/17 2003, 2005 8 March 2007 - 
El Salvador G/AG/N/SLV/28 2007 8 May 2007 - 
 G/AG/N/SLV/30 2008 7 July 2009 - 
 G/AG/N/SLV/32 2009 21 October 2009 - 
 G/AG/N/SLV/35 2010, 2011  13 September 2011 - 
European Union G/AG/N/EEC/1/Add.3, 
G/AG/N/EEC/3/Add.2, 
G/AG/N/EEC/14/Add.2, 
G/AG/N/EEC/15/Add.2 2005, 2006 22 December 2006 G/AG/R/48 
Former Yugoslav 
Republic of Macedonia G/AG/N/MKD/7 2004, 2005, 2006 15 November 2007 - 
 G/AG/N/MKD/14 2009 12 July 2011 - 
Guatemala G/AG/N/GTM/32 2004, 2005, 2006 4 April 2007 - 
 G/AG/N/GTM/38 2007 18 January 2011  
India G/AG/N/IND/4 2002 7 March 2011 - 
 G/AG/N/IND/6 2003, 2004, 2005, 
2006, 2007 7 March 2011 - 
Japan G/AG/N/JPN/133 2007 31 March 2008 G/AG/R/52 
 G/AG/N/JPN/143 2008 26 February 2009 - 
Korea, Republic of G/AG/N/KOR /21/Corr.1 1997 2 March 2009 - 
Switzerland G/AG/N/CHE/13/ Add.8 2006 4 October 2006 - 
 G/AG/N/CHE/13/Add.8/Co rr.1 2006 11 October 2006 - 
 G/AG/N/CHE/13/Add.9 2007 8 January 2008 G/AG/R/51 
 G/AG/N/CHE/13/Add.10 2008 27 May 2008 - 
 G/AG/N/CHE/13/Add.11 2009 25 March 2009 - 
 G/AG/N/CHE/13/Add.12 2010 19 August 2010 - 
 G/AG/N/CHE/13/Add.13 2011 2 March 2011 - 
                                                      
1 Members may have provided additional information in response to queries made during the Review 
Process undertaken by the Committee on Agriculture at eac h of its regular meetings. G/AG/W/70/Rev.3 
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  Member Symbol Implementation 
Year Date issued Responses to 
Members' specific 
questions1 
Chinese Taipei G/AG/N/TPKM/55 2008 18 January 2008 - 
Thailand G/AG/N/THA/62 2006 22 January 2007 G/AG/R/48 
 G/AG/N/THA/66 2007 29 Sept ember 2008 G/AG/R/54 & 
G/AG/R/55 
 G/AG/N/THA/70 2008, 2009 12 February 2010 G/AG/R/58 & 
G/AG/W/75/Rev.4 
Ukraine G/AG/N/UKR/1 2009 26 February 2009 - 
 G/AG/N/UKR/1/Add.1 2009 11 December 2009 G/AG/R/58 & 
G/AG/W/75/Rev.4 
 G/AG/N/UKR/3 2010 2 February 2010 G/AG/R/58 & 
G/AG/W/75/Rev.4 
 G/AG/N/UKR/3/Rev.1 2010 24 March 2010 - 
 G/AG/N/UKR/8 2011 25 March 2011 G/AG/R/62 & 
G/AG/W/86/Rev.2 
 G/AG/N/UKR/8/Rev.1 2011 7 April 2011 G/AG/R/62 & 
G/AG/W/86/Rev.2 
 G/AG/N/UKR/8/Rev.2 2011 19 July 2011 - 
United States G/AG/N/USA/57 2006, 2007 18 May 2007 G/AG/R/49 
 G/AG/N/USA/63 2008 15 September 2008 - 
 G/AG/N/USA/63/Rev.1 2008 23 March 2009 - 
 G/AG/N/USA/68 2009 23 March 2009 - 
 G/AG/N/USA/71 2010 5 February 2010 - 
 G/AG/N/USA/71/Add.1 2010 15 April 2010 - 
 G/AG/N/USA/71/Add.2 2009 5 July 2010 - 
 G/AG/N/USA/71/Add.3 2009 20 August 2010 - 
 G/AG/N/USA/71/Add.4 2009 3 November 2010 - 
 G/AG/N/USA/79 2010 3 November 2010 - 
 G/AG/N/USA/79/Add.1 2010 27 May 2011 - 
 
 
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