The panel notes that the BOP Committee and the General Council have reached no decision on India's contention, and hence there is no conflict in the panel considering it. If the report had stopped there, it would have brought out the failures of the negotiators. But it has gone further. It is totally unlike the WTO's secret process, and civil society everywhere would be happy for the open ILO processes to become the WTO norm in any future rule-making. In most cases, it is reasonable to assume that there will be no resort to dispute settlement procedures on such issues.
Past practice supports that assumption.