...parties under the General Agreement and to clarify the existing provisions of the General Agreement. It is a central element in providing security and predictability to the multilateral trading system.50 The process of consultation is expedited by requiring a contracting party to whom request...

...parties under the General Agreement and to clarify the existing provisions of the General Agreement. It is a central element in providing security and predictability to the multilateral trading system. 2. Contracting parties agree that all solutions to matters formally raised under the GATT dispute settlement...

...the dispute settlement rules under the new WTO treaty the dispute settlement system is described as a central element in providing security and predictability to the multilateral trading system. The provision then adds:6 "The Members recognize that it serves to preserve the rights and obligations...

...to the WTO Dispute Settlement- Understanding, the dispute settlement regime is important because it is a central element in providing security and predictability to the multilateral trading system. Members can seek the redress of a violation of obligations or other nullification or impairment of...

...procedures as further elaborated and modified herein." Article 3.2 notes that the dispute settlement "is a central element in providing security and predictability to the multilateral trading system." Article 19 provides that a panel or appellate body "shall recommend that the member concerned bring...

...1994 DSU explicitly confirms in its Article 3 that: - "The dispute settlement system of the WTO . . . serves to preserve the rights and obligations of Members under the covered agreements ...;" - "All solutions to matters formally raised under the consultation and dispute settlement provisions...

...rule-oriented procedure.7 After several 7. See, for example, DSU article 3: 2, which in part reads "3.2 The dispute settlement system of the WTO is a central...predictability to the multilateral trading system." Also see the speech of King Hassan II for the host government of the April 1 994 Marrakesh ministerial...

...supervising decisions. It is therefore no surprise to find the purpose of the DSU defined in Article 3(2) as 'to preserve the rights and obligations of Members under the covered agreements, and to clarify 42 See Iwasawa, 'Settlement of disputes', p. 400. For an outline of the NAFTA arrangements, which influenced...

...and recommendations have been complied with by the respondent. An efficient dispute settlement system is a central element in providing security and predictability to the multilateral trading system and in preserving the balance of rights and obligations, as well as the value of concessions. Under...

...hallmarks of an unresolved disagreement. It reiterates that the dispute settlement system should first, preserve the rights and obligations of Members under the Covered Agreements and second, clarify the existing provisions of those '* GATT 1994 annex II, art 1 , fl 1 & 2. 37 GATT 1994...