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ORGANIZATIONG/SCM/43
7 May 2002
(02-2559)
Committee on Subsidies
and Countervailing Measures
BASIS FOR BUDGET REQUEST FOR PLANNED
SUBSIDY NOTIFICATION SEMINAR FOR CAPITAL BASED OFFICIALS
TO BE HELD IN GENEVA IN NOVEMBER 2002
Decision Adopted by the Committee
at its Regular Meeting on 3 May 2002
1. The Secretariat will organize a subsidy notification seminar to be held in Geneva in
November 2002, back-to-back with the Committee's autumn programme of meetings.  The purpose of
the seminar is to bring together capital-based officials of  all Members responsible for subsidy matters
and for subsidy notifications for a detailed discussion of the notification obligation and to exchange
experiences and ideas, with a view to improving understanding of the notification obligation and
identifying ways in which Members could streamline and facilitate as much as possible their internal
processes for developing notifications.
2. Financial sponsorship for the subsidy notification seminar for capital-based officials planned
for November 2002 will be requested under the Coordinated Technical Assistance Plan on thefollowing basis.
3. Funding to attend a two-day seminar in Geneva for:
(a) one capital-based official from 36 least-developed country Members and Observers
(estimated total cost:  CHF 243,000); and
(b) one capital-based official from a certain additional  number (to be determined) of
developing country Members and Observers indicating an intention to attend the
seminar and demonstrating a need for sponsorship, on the basis of, inter alia , the
following non-cumulative considerations: sm all delegations; capacity constraints;
resource constraints;  non-resident in Geneva.
4. It is understood that eligibility for financial sponsorship on the part of developing country
Members and Observers will be primarily on the basis of self-selection and that, to the maximum
extent possible, developing country Members and Observers will consider funding their ownparticipation in the seminar.  The Committee retain s the ultimate ability to monitor the selection.
5. Developing country Members and Observers intending to send a capital-based official to
participate in the seminar and considering that th ey might be in need of financial sponsorship
should identify themselves by 23 May 2002.   The Secretariat will then issue a list of Members and
Observers that have so identified themselves.  If , between the date of issuance of the list and
6 June 2002, no Member indicates that it has a difficulty with the list, the Committee will be deemed
to have approved financial sponsorship for those in cluded in the list.  If, however, within this time-
frame, a Member indicates that it has a difficulty with the list, the matter will be discussed, with a
view to its resolution, at the meeting of the Committee scheduled for 17 June 2002.G/SCM/43
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6. Officials from non-developing country Observers are also invited to participate in the
seminar, on a self-funding basis.
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