WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/REG11/N/5
24 March 1999
(99-1203)
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements Original:  English
CENTRAL EUROPEAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT -
ACCESSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA
Notification from the Parties
The following communication, dated 25 February 1999, has been received from the Permanent
Representative of the Republic of Poland, on behalf of  the Parties to the Central European Free Trade
Agreement (CEFTA) – Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Poland and
Romania - with the request that it be distributed to WTO Members.
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Pursuant to the provisions of Article XXIV: 7(a) of the GATT 1994 and the Understanding on
the Interpretation of Article XXIV of the GATT 1994 and with reference to the communication made by
the CEFTA Parties on 20 June 19941, the information submitted by the Representative of the Slovak
Republic to the Council for Trade in Goods on 22 May 1996 about the completion of the CEFTA by
provisions of Article 39 (a)2 and the communications by the Parties to the CEFTA contained in
WT/REG11/2 and WT/REG11/N/ 1-3, the official text of the Agreement on Accession of the Republic
of Bulgaria to the Central European Free Trad e Agreement, signed on 17 July 1998, is attached.3
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1 L/7495 and L/7495/Add.1.
2 G/C/M/10.
3 The Agreement is being circulated as document WT/REG11/10.