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 |
|
| Claims raised |
|
| Defences raised |
|
| 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." |