Submit a notification

Notifications should be submitted using the form provided on the fourth page of document S/L/5, except for notifications on the establishment of enquiry points (Article III:4) and/or contact points (Article IV:2). The completed form has to be submitted to the Central Registry of Notification at crn@wto.org, and copies can be submitted to the Trade in Services and Investment Division at GATSNotifications@wto.org, except for notifications of restrictions to safeguard the balance of payments (Article XII:4) which can be copied to the Council and TNC Division.

The form provided in S/L/5 must be completed in one of the three official languages of the WTO. An essential element for notifications under Article III:3 is the complete description of the measure notified and its effect on trade in services. The text of the measure should be made available at the enquiry point or at the WTO Secretariat, except for economic integration Agreements (Article V:7) and labour market integration Agreements (Article V bis(b)) whose full text has to be notified. 

Unlike other notifications, the establishment of enquiry points (Article III:4) and/or contact points (Article IV:2) and any changes to their contact details need not be notified through the standardized form, see S/L/23. They can be notified formlessly to the WTO Secretariat at GATSNotifications@wto.org. An inventory of Enquiry and Contact Points is shared with Members at regular intervals in the S/ENQ/ series. 

Any questions regarding notifications related to the GATS can be sent to the Secretariat at GATSNotifications@wto.org.

Notifications can be submitted to CRN as attachments to email. While doing so, it is important that Members are aware of the following points:

 

Submit notification documents in Word format and attachments to notifications in PDF format.

 

Use the available templates for regular notifications as well as corrigenda and addenda, etc.

 

The address to which notifications should be sent is: CRN@wto.org

All notifications on paper should be addressed as follows:

 

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Attention: Administrator, Central Registry of Notifications (CRN)

Centre William Rappard

154 rue de Lausanne

CH-1211 GENEVA 2 Switzerland

 

Please do not address notifications to individual Committees, Directors or the Registry of the WTO.