Enter your search here

ARTICLES

LEGAL RESOURSES

Exchange rate:

$ 17.14

    • Annex 1905.6: Special Committee Procedures

    The Parties shall establish rules of procedure by the date of entry into force of this Agreement in accordance with the following principles:

  • The procedures shall assure a right to at least one hearing before the special committee as well as the opportunity to provide initial and rebuttal written submissions;

    •  

  • The procedures shall assure that the special committee shall prepare an initial report typically within 60 days of the appointment of the last member, and shall afford the Parties 14 days to comment on that report prior to issuing a final report 30 days after presentation of the initial report;

    •  

  • The special committee's hearings, deliberations, and initial report, and all written submissions to and communications with the special committee shall be confidential;

    •  

  • Unless the Parties to the dispute otherwise agree, the decision of the special committee shall be published 10 days after it is transmitted to the disputing Parties, along with any separate opinions of individual members and any written views that either Party may wish to be published; and

    •  

  • Unless the Parties to the dispute otherwise agree, meetings and hearings of the special committee shall take place at the office of the Section of the Secretariat of the Party complained against.