. /.  RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  TCA/M/26 
21 December 2010 
 (10-6835) 
Committee on Trade in Civil Aircraft
 
  
MINUTES OF THE MEETING  
HELD ON 23 NOVEMBER 2010 
 
Chairperson:  Ms. Sylvie Larose (Canada)
 
  
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A. ELECTION OF A NEW CHAIRPERSON ...........................................................................................1  
B. ADOPTION OF AGENDA ...............................................................................................................1  
C. REVISION OF THE PRODUCT COVERAGE ANNEX OF THE 1979  AGREEMENT ON TRADE 
IN CIVIL AIRCRAFT .....................................................................................................................1  
D. DATE OF NEXT REGULAR MEETING ...........................................................................................2  
E. ADOPTION OF THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2010 ..........................................................................2  
 
 A. E
LECTION OF A NEW CHAIRPERSON  
1. Due to the departure of the Committee's Chairp erson since the date of the last Committee 
meeting in October 2009, the Committee meeting was opened by Mr Johann Human, Director of the 
Rules Division.  Mr Human announced that after having broadly consulted the Signatories, he sensed 
the Committee was in a position to elect a new Chairp erson.  Accordingly, Mr Human proposed that 
the Committee elect Ms Sylvie Larose, of Canada , as the new Chairperson of the Committee on Trade 
in Civil Aircraft, to replace Ms Cecilie  Kverme, of Norway.  The Committee elected  Ms Larose as the 
new Chairperson by acclamation. 
2. The new Chairperson thanked the Committee fo r being elected and expressed the hope that 
she would be able to help advance the Committee's wo rk this year, in particular, with respect to the 
revision of the Product Coverage Annex to the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft. 
B. ADOPTION OF AGENDA  
3. The Chairperson referred to the proposed ag enda contained in documents WTO/AIR/3649 
and WTO/AIR/3649/Corr.1.  No requests were made to  raise any matter under "other business".     
4. The Committee adopted  the agenda contained in documents WTO/AIR/3649 and 
WTO/AIR/3649/Corr.1. 
C. REVISION OF THE PRODUCT COVERAGE ANNEX OF THE 1979  AGREEMENT ON TRADE IN CIVIL 
AIRCRAFT  
5. The Chairperson  recalled that over the past three years (since the regular meeting of 
November 2007), the Committee had instructed the Secr etariat to prepare a series of Technical Notes 
outlining the extent to which the Product Coverage  Annex ("PCA") of the Agreement on Trade in TCA/M/26 
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  Civil Aircraft may need to be updated or revised to  bring it into conformity with the version of the 
Harmonized Coding and Description System ("HS") that  entered into force in 2007.  The Chairperson 
explained that the first such Technical Note wa s circulated to Signatories on 3 September 2008, and 
that it was discussed at the Committee's regular meeting in November of the same year.  The 
Chairperson also recalled that two additional Techni cal Notes, updating the first Technical Note in the 
light of various comments and suggestions made by Signatories, were circulated in December 2009 
and June 2010.   
6. The Chairperson reminded Signatories that the Secretariat had circulated the latest draft 
Revised PCA, highlighting all proposed revisions to the current PCA as well as the comments thus far received from Signatories, on 13 September 2010.  Th e Chairperson noted that this document was 
accompanied by a draft Protocol, identifying changes to the language from the Protocol adopted by 
the Committee in 2001, when the PC A was last amended to come into conformity with HS2002.  
Because of the technical nature of the circulat ed documents, the Committee decided to discuss the 
latest draft Revised PCA and accompanying draft Protocol in informal mode.   
7. As only few proposed changes remainded outsta nding, the Chairperson suggested she could 
undertake to consult with the Signatories that remain  in disagreement or which have asked for further 
clarification of certain items, with a view to resolv ing all outstanding issues as soon as possible.  The 
Chairperson suggested that, on the basis of her cons ultations, she could instruct the Secretariat to 
prepare a final revised Protocol and PCA, and then  call another meeting of the Committee with a view 
to adopting the new PCA.  
8. The Committee
 agreed with the Chairperson's proposed course of action. 
D. DATE OF NEXT REGULAR MEETING  
9. The Committee  agreed to hold its next regular meeting on Thursday, 10 November 2011.   
E. ADOPTION OF THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2010 
10. The Committee  adopted the annual report for 2010 ad referendum . 
11. The meeting was adjourned . 
 
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