WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SCM/N/71/PNG
7 March 2002
(02-1155)
Committee on Subsidies
and Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  English
SUBSIDIES
New and Full Notification Pursuant to Article XVI:1 of the GATT 1994
and Article 25 of the Agreement on Subsidies and
Countervailing Measures
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
The following communication, dated 5 March 2002,  has been received from the Embassy of
Papua New Guinea in Brussels.
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The Mission of Papua New Guinea wishes to inform the Secretariat for purposes of
notification of export subsidies programmes and, in doing so, requests the Committee to consider the
detailed notification as submitted together with the initial request for subsidy extension submitted in
April and December 2001 (contained in documents G/SCM/N/74/PNG & Suppl.1).
In our view, this would cater for Article 27.4 which under special procedures for "fast-track"
extensions, indicates the need to submit before 28 February 2002, subsidy notifications with relevantdetails of the purpose and form of subsidy (grant, tax exemptions, loans), export incentives, the
beneficiaries, etc., etc.  We would greatly appreciate that the Secretariat facilitate this request for
discussion, if any, by the Member states.
In the meantime, should other additional inform ation be required by the Committee, the same
can be provided by Papua New Guinea based on thos e requests.  Furthermore, additional information,
including a decision taken by the Committee on Papua New Guinea on our request as indicated above
will be appreciated.
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