RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/SCM/N/3
30January 1995
ORGANIZATION
(95-0167)
Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
SUBSIDIES
NOTIFICATIONS PURSUANT TOARTICLE XVI:1 OFTHE GATT 1994
AND ARTICLE 25OFTHE AGREEMENT ONSUBSIDIES
AND COUNTERVAILING MEASURES
1. Pursuant toArticle XVI:1 oftheGATT 1994andArticle 25.2oftheAgreement onSubsidies
andCountervailing Measures, Members shallnotify anysubsidy asdefined inparagraph 1ofArticle 1
oftheAgreement onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures which isspecific within themeaning of
Article 2ofthatAgreement, granted ormaintained within theirterritories.
2. Inaccordance withtheDecision oftheCONTRACTING PARTIES attheirtwentieth session
(BISD 11S/58), Members should submit every thirdyearnewandfullsubsidies notifications andbring
these notifications uptodateintheintervening years. AstheWTO Agreement entered intoforce
thisyear, Members areinvited tosubmit for1995 newandfullsubsidies notifications.
3. Members arereminded thatthequestionnaire regarding notifications pursuant toArticle XVI:1
maybefound inBISD 9S/193. Article 25:3oftheAgreement onSubsidies andCountervailing
Measures further provides that,without prejudice tothecontent andform ofthequestionnaire on
subsidies, Members shallensure thattheirnotifications contain certain information.
4. Members willrecall thattheCONTRACTING PARTIES totheGATT 1947havedecided that,
ifameasure issubject toanotification obligation bothunder theWTO Agreement andtheGATT 1947,
thenotification ofsuchameasure totheWTO shall, unless otherwise indicated inthenotification,
bedeemed tobealsoanotification ofthatmeasure under theGATT 1947(L/7582, dated 13December
1994). Accordingly, thenotification ofasubsidy pursuant tothisinvitation would bedeemed tobe
anotificationrespondingtotherequestfornotificationsunderArticleXVI:1oftheGATT1947(L/7611).
5. Notifications received inreply totheabove request willbeissued inaddenda tothisdocument.