CANADA – MEASURES GOVERNING THE SALE OF WINE COMMUNICATION FROM THE PANEL
Document: Addendum
Date: 11 March 2020
Document codes: WT/DS537/11/Add.3
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 9 March 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, and any
amendments thereto, to WTO Members through the DS document series
for this dispute.
Accordingly, please find enclosed the revised timetable adopted by the Panel today.

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

TIMETABLE FOR THE PANEL PROCEEDINGS1

Adopted as revised on 25 July 2019, 28 August 2019, and 9 March 20202

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
ii. Canada

Friday, 10 May 2019
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 Wednesday, 10 July 2019
e. First substantive meeting with the parties Thursday, 18 and Friday,

Third-party session Friday, 19 July 2019
f. Responses from the parties and third parties to written
questions Monday, 12 August 2019
g. Integrated executive summaries of third parties' arguments Monday, 19 August 2019
h. First integrated executive summaries of the parties Monday, 19 August 2019
i. Second written submissions of the parties Monday, 30 September 2019
j. Advance questions from the Panel to the parties Friday, 22 November 2019
k. Second substantive meeting with the parties Tuesday, 3 and Wednesday,
4 December 2019
l. Responses to written questions Monday, 13 January 2020
m. Comments on responses to questions Monday, 27 January 2020
n. Second integrated executive summaries of the parties Monday, 10 February 2020

1 The above timetable may be changed in the light of subsequent developments.
2 The timetable was originally adopted on 15 April 2019. The amendment of 25 July 2019 concerns
sections (d) and (f) to (p). The amendment of 28 August 2019 concerns sections (k) to (p). The amendment of
9 March 2020 concerns sections (l) to (t).

Description Date
o. Issuance of descriptive part of the report to the parties Monday, 17 February 2020
p. Comments by the parties on the descriptive part of the report Monday, 2 March 2020
q. Issuance of the interim report, including findings and
conclusions, to the parties Thursday, 2 April 2020
r. Deadline for parties to request review of part(s) of the report
and to request an interim review meeting Friday, 24 April 2020
s. Interim review meeting or, if no meeting is requested,
deadline for comments on requests for review
Deadline for comments:
Friday, 8 May 2020
Possible interim review
meeting: Friday, 8 May 2020
t. Issuance of the final report to the parties Thursday, 4 June 2020
u. Circulation of the final report to Members Following translation