PC/AIR/40 
GATT/AIR/3 652 11 NOVEMBER 1994 
SUBJECT : IMPLEMENTATION CONFERENCE 
1. IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 3 OF THE FINAL ACT EMBODYING THE 
RESULTS OF THE URUGUAY ROUND OF MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS, THE 
CONFERENCE TO DECIDE ON THE INTERNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RESULTS, 
INCLUDING THE TIMING OF THEIR ENTRY INTO FORCE (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE 
IMPLEMENTATION CONFERENCE) , WILL BE HELD ON 8 DECEMBER 1994, AT 10 A.M. 
IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE, GENEVA. 
2. AS INDICATED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE TRADE NEGOTIATIONS COMMITTEE 
IN HIS CONCLUDING REMARKS AT THE MINISTERIAL MEETING IN MARRAKESH 
(MTN.TNC/45 (MIN) AND CORR.l AND 2) , THE IMPLEMENTATION CONFERENCE WILL 
COMMENCE WITH A MEETING OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE AT SENIOR OFFICIALS 
LEVEL, TO BE FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER BY THE CONTRACTING PARTIES 
TO GATT 1947 MEETING IN SPECIAL SESSION. 
3. THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE PROPOSED FOR THE AGENBA: 
A. ACTION RELATING TO THE WORLD TRACE ^ORGANIZATION 
(i) DATE OF ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE^WTOSAGREEMENT; 
(ii) CONSIDERATION OF THE DRAFT ( REPORT OF THE PREPARATORY 
COMMITTEE TO THE WTO, INCLUDINS-*CTION, AS APPROPRIATE, ON 
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE »BECISION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF 
THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE" AMD THE "DECISION ON TRADE AND 
ENVIRONMENT" (MTN.TNC/45\MIW AND CORR.1 AND 2, ANNEXES II 
AND IV) ; ^*^ 
B. ACTION RELATING TO GAT*1 1947 
THE SIXTH SPECIAl/sESSION OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES TO 
GATT 1947 REFERRSD/TC/ IN PARAGRAPH 2 ABOVE, WILL ACT, AS 
APPROPRIATE, ON THES6PECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS MADE TO IT BY 
THE PREPARATORYS^OMMITTEE UNDER PARAGRAPH 3A(ii) ABOVE. 
4. MEMBERS AND OBSE»VE#S OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE, GOVERNMENTS 
WHICH HAVE BEEN ASSOCT&ffED WITH THE WORK OF THE TRADE NEGOTIATIONS 
COMMITTEE OF THE URUGUAY ROUND NEGOTIATIONS AND CONTRACTING PARTIES TO 
GATT 1947 AND OBSEHVERSk TO THE SESSIONS OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES ARE 
KINDLY REQUESTED TC IN3DRM ME OF THE NAMES OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES TO 
THE PREPARATORY COM!+*TTEE AND THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE CONTRACTING 
PARTIES. WITH MjSpBfT TO THE LATTER, CREDENTIALS AUTHORIZING CONTRACTING 
PARTIES' REPRESENTATIVES TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS INDICATED IN 
ARTICLE XXV OF\CH^ GENERAL AGREEMENT, AS PROVIDED FOR UNDER RULE 7 OF 
THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES, SHOULD BE SUBMITTED 
TO THE SECRETARIAT NOT LATER THAN THURSDAY, 1 DECEMBER 1994. 
PETER D. SUTHERLAND 
94-2387 