CANADA – MEASURES GOVERNING THE SALE OF WINE COMMUNICATION FROM THE PANEL
Document: Addendum
Date: 5 August 2020
Document codes: WT/DS537/10/Add.1
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
Addendum
The following communication, dated 30 July 2020, 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, a nd any
amendments thereto, to WTO Members through the DS document series
for this dispute.
Accordingly, please find enclosed an amendment to paragraph 33 of the Panel’s Working Procedures
adopted by the Panel on 29 July 2020. This amendment reflects the tr ansition from the Digital
Dispute Settlement Registry (DDSR) to the Disputes Online Registry Application (DORA) system as
from 1 August 2020.

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

WORKING PROCEDURES OF THE PANEL

Paragraph 33, as amended on 29 July 2020

Service of documents

33. The following procedures regarding service of documents apply to all documents submitted by
parties and third parties during the proceeding:
a. Each party and third party shall submit all documents to the Panel by submitting them via
the WTO e-filing system1 by 5.00 p.m. (Geneva time) on the due dates established by the
Panel. The electronic version uploaded into the WTO e-filing system shall constitute the
official version for the purposes of submission deadlines and the record of the dispute.
Upload of a document into the WTO e-filing system shall constitute electronic service on
the Panel, the other party, and the third parties.
b. By 5.00 p.m. (G eneva time) the next working day following the electronic submission,
each party and third party shall submit one paper copy of all documents it submits to the
Panel, including the exhibits, with the DS Registry (office No. 2047). The DS Registrar
shall stamp the documents with the date and time of the submission. If any documents
are in a format that is impractical to submit as a paper copy, then the party may submit
such documents by email or on a CD-ROM, DVD or USB key.
c. The Panel shall provide the partie s with the Descriptive Part of the Report, the Interim
Report and the Final Report, as well as all other documents or communications issued by
the Panel during the proceeding, via the WTO e-filing system.
d. If the parties or third parties have any questions or technical difficulties relating to the
WTO e-filing system, they are invited to contact the DS Registry (DSRegistry@wto.org).
e. If any party or third party is unable to meet the 5.00 p.m. deadline because of tec hnical
difficulties in uploading these documents into the WTO e-filing system, the party or third
party concerned shall inform the DS Registry without delay and provide an electronic
version of all documents to be submitted to the Panel by email including any exhibits. The
email shall be addressed to DSRegistry@wto.org, the Panel Secretary, the other party
and, if appropriate, the third parties. The documents sent by email shall be submitted no
later than 5.30 p.m. on the due date established by the Panel. If the file size of specific
exhibits makes transmission by email impossible, or it would require more than five email
messages, owing to the number of exhibits to be filed, to transmit all of them by email,
the specific large file size exhibits, or those that cannot be attached to the first five email
messages, shall be filed with the DS Registry (office No. 2047) and provided to the other
party and, if appropriate, the third parties by no later than 9.30 a.m. the next working
day on a CD -ROM, DVD, or USB stick. In that case, the party or third party concerned
shall send a notification to the DS Registrar, copying the Panel Secretary, the other party,
and the third parties, as appropriate, via email, identifying the numbers of the exhibits
that cannot be transmitted by email.
f. In case any party or third party is unable to access a document filed through the WTO
e-filing system because of technical difficulties, it shall promptly, and in any case no later
than 5.00 p.m. on the next working day after the due date for the filing of the document,
inform the DS Registrar, the Panel Secretary, and the party or third party that filed the
document, of the problem by email and shall, if possible, identify the relevant
document(s). The DS Registrar will promptly try to identify a solution to the technical
problem. In the meantime, the party or third party that filed the document(s) shall,
promptly after being informed of the problem, provide an electronic version of the relevant
document(s) to the affected party or third party by email, with a copy to the DS Registry
(DSRegistry@wto.org) and the Panel Secretary to allow access to the document(s) while

1 In this dispute, the phrase "WTO e-filing system" refers to the Digital Dispute Settlement Registry
(DDSR) until 31 July 2020, and to the Disputes Online Registry Application (DORA) system as from 1 August
2020.

the technical problem is being address ed. The DS Registrar may provide an electronic
version of the relevant document(s) by email if the affected party or third party so
requests. The DS Registrar shall in that case copy the party or third party that filed the
document(s) on the email message.