EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES – REGIME FOR THE INPORTATION, SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF BANANAS
Document: Status Report by the European Communities Addendum
Date: 9 September 1998
Document codes: WT/DS27/17/Add.1
Complainant: Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, U.S.
Respondent: EU
Third parties: Belize, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican, Ghana, Grenada, India, Jamaica, Japan, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Suriname, Venezuela, Côte d’Ivoire, Brazil, Madagascar
Dispute stage: Mutually Agreed Solution
Agreements cited: Art. I, II, III, X, XI, XIII  GATT 1994Art. 1, 3  Import LicensingArt. II, XVI, XVII  Services (GATS)Art. 2  Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs)Art. 19  Agriculture

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES – REGIME FOR THE INPORTATION,
SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF BANANAS
Status Report by the European Communities
Addendum
Status Report on the Implementation of the Recommendations and Rulings
in the Dispute Regarding European Communities – Regime for the Importation,
Sale and Distribution of Bananas
In keeping with the Understanding on Rules and Procedures governing the Settlement of
Disputes (DSU), the European Communities is obliged to inform the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB)
of the status of implementation of the recommendations and rulings in the dispute regarding
"European Communities – Regime for the Importation, sale and distribution of Bananas". This matter
will be again on the agenda of the DSB on 22 September 1998 and, as provided for in Article 21.6 of
the DSU, the Community presents its second report.
As described in our status report of 13 July 1998, the implementation of the recommendations
of the DSB requires a modification of the trade provisions of Regulation 404/93. In this context, the
Council of the European Union, after consulting the European Parliament has adopted Council
Regulation n°1637/98 of 20 July 1998, published in the Official Journal of the European communities
(OJEC) L 210 of 28 July 1998.
That Regulation, which is for the time being a partial implementation of the DSB
recommendations, will be followed, within the coming months, by another regulation concerning the
detailed rules for the management of the import regime which will be adopted by the Commission of
the European Communities. An express delegation of powers has been decided by the Council of the
European Union to this effect. This second regulation will conclude the implementing process.
Thirdly, the Council of the European Union has authorised the Commission of the European
Communities to open a negotiation in order to seek ag reement with respect to the allocation of shares
in the EC banana tariff rate quotas with all other contracting parties having a substantial interest in
supplying the products concerned pursuant to Article XIII:2(d) of the General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade. The European Communities has initiated these formal consultations on 8 September 1998.
Council Regulation (EC) n°1637/98 entered into force on 31 July 1998, three days after it was
published in the OJEC. It will be applicable as from 1 January 1999. The European Communities
confirm that the reasonable period of time of 15 month and one week will be duly respected.