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European Communities — Regime for the Importation, Sale and Distribution of Bananas

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Compliance proceedings completed with finding(s) of non-compliance on 11 December 2008

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Short title: EC — Bananas III

Complainant: Ecuador; Guatemala;

Honduras; Mexico; United

States of America

Respondent: European Communities

Third Parties: Belize; Cameroon; Canada;

Colombia; Costa Rica;

Dominica; Dominican

Republic; Ghana; Grenada;

India; Jamaica; Japan;

Nicaragua; Philippines; Saint

Lucia; Saint Vincent and the

Grenadines; Senegal;

Suriname; Venezuela

(Bolivarian Republic of);

Côte d’Ivoire; Brazil;

Madagascar; Panama

Agreements

cited:

(as cited in request

for consultations)

Import Licensing: Art. 1, 3

Agriculture: Art. 19

Trade-Related Investment

Measures (TRIMs): Art. 5, 2

Services (GATS): Art. II, IV,

XVI, XVII

GATT 1994: Art. I, II, III, X,

XI, XIII

Request for

Consultations

5 February 1996

Investment Measures received:

22 May 1997

Panel Report

circulated:

9 September 1997

Appellate Body

Report

circulated:

7 January 1998

Article 21.3(c)

Arbitration

Report

circulated:

Article 21.5

12 April 1999

Panel Report

(Ecuador)

circulated:

12 April 1999

Article 21.5

Panel Report

(European

Communities)

circulated:

9 April 1999

Recourse to

Article 22.6

Arbitration

Report

circulated:

2 July 2001

Mutually Agreed

Solution

notified:

Second

7 April 2008

Recourse to

Article 21.5

Panel Report

circulated:

19 May 2008

Article 21.5

Panel Report

(United States)

circulated:

26 November 2008

Second

Recourse to

Article 21.5

Appellate Body