Common use of Diagnostic Assessment Clause in Contracts

Diagnostic Assessment. As already mentioned, most WCO Members are already well aware of the provisions contained in the TFA. However, ensuring national compliance with the TFA provisions is so- mething that needs to be carefully considered and examined by the Members individually at national level. The diagnostic assessment of a given situation aims to determine in detail the situation from where to start the TFA implementation process and also provides for accurate baseline data in terms of results-based management. In the TFA context, contributions to this diagnostic assessment can come from various sources, including: A | WTO SELF-ASSESSMENT MISSIONS WTO Members have identified such an assessment as a challenge already during the negotiations and requested WTO support for assessing their capacities to implement trade fa- cilitation measures. Results of respective WTO self-assessment support missions were impor- tant in the context of ensuring better national positioning during the TFA negotiations and of raising awareness regarding the expected level of compliance once the TFA enters into force. In the course of the TFA negotiations, as well as since the conclusion of the TFA, most of the developing and least developed WTO Members have benefited from WTO self-assess- ment support missions carried out in two rounds. The first round took place from 2007 to 2010 when 94 missions were completed. page 22