CANADA - MEASURES GOVERNING THE SALE OF WINE COMMUNICATION FROM THE PANEL
Document: COMMUNICATION FROM
Date: 29 April 2019
Document codes: WT/DS537/11
Complainant: Australia
Respondent: Canada
Third parties: Argentina, Chile, China, EU, India, Israel, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Ukraine, U.S., Uruguay
Dispute stage: Mutually Agreed Solution
Agreements cited: Art. III:1, III:2, III:4, XXIV:12  GATT 1994

CANADA - MEASURES GOVERNING THE SALE OF WINE
COMMUNICATION FROM THE PANEL
The following communication, dated 24 April 2019, was received from the Chairperson of the Panel
with the request that it be circulated to the Dispute Settlement Body.

Paragraph 2(5) of the Working Procedures for the Panel proceedings in the dispute Canada –
Measures Governing the Sale of Wine (DS537) provides:

The Panel shall circulate its Working Procedures and timetable, and any
amendments thereto, to WTO Members through the DS document series
for this dispute.
Accordingly, please find enclosed the partial timetable adopted by the Panel on 15 April 2019.

I would be grateful if you would circulate this document to the DSB.

TIMETABLE FOR THE PANEL PROCEEDINGS1

Panel established on 26 September 2018
Panel composed on 7 March 2019

Description Date
Organizational meeting Tuesday, 9 April 2019
a. Article 6.2 Request
i. Request filed by Canada
ii. Response filed by Australia

Friday, 12 April 2019
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
b. First written submissions
i. Australia Friday, 10 May 2019
ii. Canada Friday, 14 June 2019
c. Third parties' written submissions (Argentina, Chile, China, the
European Union, India, Israel, the Republic of Korea, Mexico,
New Zealand, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Chinese
Taipei, Ukraine, Uruguay, and the United States)

Friday, 28 June 2019
d. [Advance questions from the Panel to the parties and third
parties] [TBD]
e. First substantive meeting with the parties Thursday, 18 and Friday, 19
July 2019
 Third-party session Friday, 19 July 2019
f. Responses from the parties and third parties to written
questions [Monday, 5 August 2019]
g. Integrated executive summaries of third parties' arguments [Monday, 12 August 2019]
h. First integrated executive summaries of the parties [Monday, 12 August 2019]
i. Second written submissions of the parties [Monday, 23 September
2019]
j. [Advance questions from the Panel to the parties] [TBD]
k. Second substantive meeting with the parties [Tuesday, 12 and
Wednesday, 13 November
2019]
l. Responses to written questions [Monday, 2 December
2019]

1 The above timetable may be changed in the light of subsequent developments.

Description Date
m. Comments on responses to questions [Monday, 16 December
2019]
n. Second integrated executive summaries of the parties [Monday, 13 January 2020]
o. Issuance of descriptive part of the report to the parties [TBD]
p. Comments by the parties on the descriptive part of the
report [TBD]
q. Issuance of the interim report, including findings and
conclusions, to the parties [TBD]
r. Deadline for parties to request review of part(s) of the report
and to request an interim review meeting [TBD]
s. Interim review meeting or, if no meeting is requested,
deadline for comments on requests for review [TBD]
t. Issuance of the final report to the parties [TBD]
u. Circulation of the final report to Members Following translation