GD/131

European Communities - Sugar Regime

Other titles

Products at Issue

Products at issue
Sugar
Type of product
Agricultural
Product sub-type
Sugar and confectionary

Related disputes

GATT
WTO

Key legal aspects

Legal basis
  • GATT Article XXIII:1
Claims raised
  • GATT Article XVI:2
  • GATT Article XVI:3
Defences raised
  • n.a.

Adjudicators

Type
Chairperson
Other members

Report

Type
Legal basis at issue
Claims at issue
Defences at issue
No of Pages (total / legal reasoning)

Timeline

Request for consultations

Outcome

Outcome of the proceedings
Consultations held
Additional Info C/M/161 (29/10/1982) Minutes of Council Meeting (01/10/1982) Colombia: consultations were held on 14/09/1982 with no satisfactory adjustment. "[T]he countries had also presented their complaint under the provisions of the International Sugar Agreement, but that the EEC did not want to carry out the consultations in that organization."C/M/166 (30/03/1983) Minutes of Council Meeting (09/03/1983) Colombia: "countries still reserved their right to raise the complaint again in GATT. However, in the hope that a successful solution could be reached, they had taken note that in the near future the EEC would be joining the members of the present International Sugar Agreement in negotiations on a new agreement."

SCM/W/48 (11/05/1983) Negotiating History of Article 18.9 and the Treatment of Reports of Working Parties and Panels under Article XXIII of the General Agreement - SCM Committee - Factual Note by the Secretariat: Reported as an Article XXIII complaint. "Council took note of the statement that complainants reserve their rights under the GATT."