This from Mark Stratman, at the suggestion of John Jackson:
The WTO General Council has made a decision to derestrict all GATT 1947 documents. This is an important step towards greater transparency, and greatly reduces some of the confusion about what documents might still be restricted from the GATT days. The full text of the WTO document holding the decision is as follows:
| World Trade Organization |
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| WT/L/647 13 June 2006 | |
| (06-2825) | |
DERESTRICTION of OFFICIAL GATT 1947 Documents
Decision of 15 May 2006
The General Council,
Having regard to the agreement of 8 December 1994 between the GATT CONTRACTING PARTIES, the Preparatory Committee for the WTO and the Interim Commission for the International Trade Organization (ICITO), approved by the WTO General Council on 31 January 1995 (WT/L/36), providing inter alia for the transfer of assets and records of the GATT to the WTO;
Considering that, in the interest of a better access of the general public to the work of the GATT 1947, a general derestriction of official GATT 1947 documents is in order;
Decides as follows:
All official restricted GATT 1947 documents shall be derestricted as of 1 June 2006.
