...the process of dispute settlement shall be avoided. It is understood that decision in this process cannot add to or diminish the rights and obligations provided in the general agreement. TRADE IN AGRICULTURE With the purpose of accelerating the achievement of the objectives...

...Declaration of 1982, according to which "it is understood that decisions (in the settlement process) cannot add to or diminish the rights and obligations provided in the General Agreement". 18 The Panels have succeeded in their legal argumentation by applying the traditional...

...customary rules of interpretation of public international law. Recommendations and rulings of the DSB cannot add to or diminish the rights and obligations provided in the covered agreements." It would seem that particularly powerful States, as the United States, have insisted on this clause...

...matter in accordance with GAll' obligations ...“ ,(x) It is understood that decisions in this process cannot add to or diminish the rights and obligations provided in the General Agreement”. besonderer Weise rur das formal so zerbrechliche System des GATF 1947 zu.¿ Deswegen...

...Settlement Body, the panel or appellate report is adopted. Further, the recommendations and rulings of the Dispute Settlement Body cannot add to or diminish the rights and obligations provided in the WTO agreements. Nor can they directly force countries to change their laws or regulations. However,...

...accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 3, in their findings and recommendations, the panel and Appellate Body cannot add to or diminish the rights and obligations provided in the covered agreements. 8 If a meeting of the DSB is not scheduled during this period, such a meeting of the DSB shall be held...

...accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 3, in their findings and recommendations, the panel and Appellate Body cannot add to or diminish the rights and obligations provided in the covered agreements. Para. 1. The "Member concerned" is the party to the dispute to which the panel or Appellate Body recommendations...

..."recommendations and rulings of the DSB" or "findings and recommendations" of a panel or of the Appellate Body "cannot add to or diminish the rights and obligations provided in the covered agreements" 302. Nevertheless, the line between interpretation of an existing right and the creation of a new one...

...accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 3, in their findings and recommendations, the panel and Appellate Body cannot add to or diminish the rights and obligations provided in the covered agreements. Article 20 Time-frame for DSB Decisions Unless otherwise agreed to by the parties to the dispute, the...

...customary rules of interpretation of public international law. Recommendations and rulings of the DSB cannot add to or diminish the rights and obligations provided in the covered agreements." What does that mean? Arguably it resonates in the direction of a caution to the panels to use "judicial...