EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND ITS MEMBER STATES – TARIFF TREATMENT OF CERTAIN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS
Document: Status Report by the European Union1
Date: 8 July 2011
Document codes: WT/DS375/18; WT/DS376/18; WT/DS377/16
Complainant: Taiwan
Respondent: EU
Third parties: Australia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, U.S., Vietnam
Dispute stage: Panel
Agreements cited: Art. II:1, X:1, X:2, XXIII  GATT 1994

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND ITS MEMBER STATES – TARIFF TREATMENT
OF CERTAIN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS

Status Report by the European Union1

 The following communication, dated 7 July 2011 , from the delegation of the European Union
to the Chairperson of the Dispute Settlement Body, is circulated pursuant to Article 21.6 of the DSU.

Status Report Regarding Implementation of the
DSB Recommendations and Rulings in the Dispute
European Communities and its Member States-Tariff Treatment of Certain Information
 Technology Products
(WT/DS375-WT/DS376-WT/DS377)

The European Union refers to the recomme ndations and rulings of the WTO Dispute
Settlement Body with respect to the dispute European Communities and its Member States-Tariff
Treatment of Certain Information Technology Products (WT/DS375-WT/DS376-WT/DS377). The
European Union hereby informs the Dispute Se ttlement Body that it has adopted the measures
necessary to comply with those recommendations and rulings. In particular:
(a) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No . 620/2011 amending Annex I to Council
Regulation (EEC) no 2658/78 on the tariff nomencla ture and the Common Customs Tariff, published
on the Official Journal of the European Union (hereinafter referred to as OJEU), L 166/16 of
25.06.2011);
(b) Deletion of Explanatory Notes for CN codes 8521 90 00, 8528 71 13, 8528 71 19 and 8528 71 90
(2011/C 185/1, published on the OJEU C 185/1 of 25.06.2011); and
(c) Statement adopted by the Customs Code Committee on 7 June 2011, and published on 29 June
2011, according to which the Statement on the classification of "multifunctional devices" agreed at
the 360th meeting of the Customs Code Committee is to be disregarded.

1 On 1 December 2009, the Treaty of Lisbon amendi ng the Treaty on Europe an Union and the Treaty
establishing the European Community (done at Lisb on, 13 December 2007) en tered into force. On
29 November 2009, the WTO received a Verbal Note (WT/L/779) from the Council of the European Union and
the Commission of the European Communities stating that, by virtue of the Treaty of Lisbon, as of
1 December 2009, the European Union replaces and succeeds the European Community.

These measures relate to the tariff treatment of set top boxes and multifunctional machines.
The European Union recalls that all the measures c oncerning flat panel displays that were examined
by the panel were repealed in 2009 by m eans of Commission Regulation (EC) 1179/2009 of
26 November 2009 (OJEU L 317/1 of 3.12.2009) and th e deletion of Explanatory Notes for CN codes
8528 41 00, 8528 49 10, 8528 49 35 to 8528 49 99, 8528 51 00 to 8528 59 90, 8528 51 00 and
8528 59 10 to 8528 59 90 (2009/C 268/05, pu blished on the OJEU C 268/19 of 10.11.2009).
Therefore, no further action is required to ensure compliance with the recommendations and rulings of
the DSB.
Therefore, the adoption of the measures liste d above ensures the full implementation of the
DSB recommendations and rulings of the DSB in this dispute