WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/MA/W/47
13 December 2002
(02-6910)
Committee on Market Access Original:  English
DISSEMINATION OF THE INTEGRATED DATA BASE (IDB) AND
THE CONSOLIDATED TARIFF SCHEDULES (CTS) DATABASE
Communication from the FAO
The following communication, dated 15 November 2002, has been received from the Food
and Agriculture Organization.
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The Commodities and Trade Division (ESC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO), which is primarily responsible for providing market access related technical assistance to
developing and least-developed countries for agricult ure, wishes to request full access to the IDB and
CTS databases through the File Transfer Facility (FTF).
The Organization, having reviewed the Conditions of Use and Publication of the IDB and
CTS as set forth in document G/MA/115 in which the FAO is included as eligible to receive the IDB
CD-ROM (paragraph 13 of G/MA/115), agrees to abide by those conditions in its delivery of trade-
related technical assistance geared towards effective participation of developing and least-developed
countries in the multilateral trade negotiations.
As indicated in the Dissemination Modalities (Section D, paragraph 9 of G/MA/115), the
Organization has selected Mr. Harmon Thomas, Chief, Commodity Policy and Projection Service,
Commodities and Trade Division as the focal point,  who will be responsible for receiving the IDB
access passwords and controlling their use with the Organization.
I would be grateful if this request could be  forwarded to the Committee on Market Access as
soon as possible.
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