WORLD TRADE WT/COMTD/2
18July1995
ORGANIZATION(95-2051)
Committee onTrade andDevelopment
DECISION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OFTHE
WTO SUB-COMMITTEE ONLEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
Adopted bytheCommittee onTrade andDevelopment on5July1995
"Inthelightofparagraph 7ofArticle IVoftheAgreement Establishing theWorld Trade
Organization, paragraph 5oftheMarrakesh Declaration, theDeclaration ontheContribution ofthe
World Trade Organization toAchieving Greater Coherence inGlobal Economic Policymaking and
theDecision onMeasures inFavour ofLeast-Developed Countries, theCommittee onTrade and
Development agrees toestablish aSub-Committee onLeast-Developed Countries withthefollowing
terms ofreference:
(a) togiveparticular attention tothespecial andspecific problems ofleast-developed
countries;
(b) toreview periodically theoperation ofthespecial provisions intheMultilateral Trade
Agreements andrelated Ministerial Decisions infavour oftheleast-developed country
Members;
(c) toconsider specific measures toassist andfacilitate theexpansion oftheleast-developed
countries 'tradeandinvestment opportunities, withaviewtoenabling themtoachieve
theirdevelopment objectives;1and,
(d) toreport totheCommittee onTrade andDevelopment forconsideration andappropriate
action."
1TheSub-Committee would giveconsideration, interalia,toanyreport thattheCommittee on
Agriculture maydecide torefertoitfollowing paragraph 6ofthe"Decision onMeasures Concerning
thePossible Negative Effects oftheReform Programme onLeast-Developed andNetFood-Importing
Developing Countries" andArticle XVIoftheAgreement onAgriculture.