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Reference:
    WLI/100        12 May 2006  
        
MARRAKESH AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING 
THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION 
DONE AT MARRAKESH ON 15 APRIL 1994 
 
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE 1994 
 
CERTIFICATION OF MODIFICATIONS   AND RECTIFICATIONS TO  
SCHEDULE VI – SRI LANKA  
 
TRANSMISSION OF CERTIFIED TRUE COPY
 
  I have the honour to furnish herewith a certified tr ue copy of the Certification of Modifications 
and Rectifications to Schedule VI – Sri Lanka, effective 9 December 1994 . 
            
       P a s c a l  L a m y  
       Director-General 
                206-2244          WT/Let/534 
  
 
SCHEDULES OF TARIFF CONCESSIONS TO THE 
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE 1994 
 
CERTIFICATION OF MODIFICAT IONS AND RECTIFICATIONS 
 
SCHEDULE VI – SRI LANKA  
 
  WHEREAS the CONTRACTING PARTIES to t he General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 
1947 (the "GATT") adopted, on 26 March 1980, a De cision on Procedures for Modification and 
Rectification of Schedules of Tariff Concessions (L/4962)
1; 
  WHEREAS the Preparatory Committee for the World Trade Organization agreed, on 22 July 1994, that for rectifications of sc hedules attached to the WTO Agreement and for the establishment of 
additional concessions under the above-mentioned Deci sion, the time-limit for approval, during the 
period up to the entry into force of the WT O Agreement, should be thirty days (PC/M/4); 
  WHEREAS in accordance with the provisions of  the above-mentioned Decision, in light of the 
time-limit for approval agreed by the Preparatory Committee, a draft containing modifications to 
Schedule VI – Sri Lanka was communicated to all Contracting Parties to the GATT in document 
G/SP/9 on 9 November 1994 and in document  G/SP/9/Corr.1 on 16 November 1994; 
  WHEREAS the entry into force of these modifications of Schedule VI was dependent upon 
the entry into force of a Protocol Supplementary to  the Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement 
on Tariffs and Trade 1994, which Protocol S upplementary did not come into being; 
  WHEREAS provision should now be made for the ent ry into force of these modifications by 
means of a Certification, as agreed by the Council for Trade in Goods at its meeting on 10 November 
2005 (G/C/M/82);   IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the modifica tions to Schedule VI – Sri Lanka are established 
in conformity with the above-mentioned Decision.   The annexed modifications enter into force as of 9 December 1994, without prejudice to any 
modifications and rectifications made effective subsequent to that date. 
  This Certification is deposited with the Dire ctor-General of the World Trade Organization, who 
shall promptly furnish a certified true copy to eac h Member of the World Trade Organization.  It shall 
be registered in accordance with the provisions of  Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations. 
  DONE at Geneva this third day of April, two thousand and six.             P a s c a l  L a m y    Certified copy:         Director-General 
                                                 
1 BISD 27S/25.   
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