Common use of Effective Access Clause in Contracts

Effective Access. 7.1. Effective access of all FTAA Parties to the dispute settlement system set forth in this chapter shall be ensured. For such purpose, the FTAA Secretariat shall provide legal advice and assistance in respect of dispute settlement to developing country members. To this end, the FTAA Secretariat shall make available a qualified legal expert to any developing country member which so requests, that shall assist it in a manner ensuring the continued impartiality of the FTAA Secretariat. The FTAA Secretariat shall also conduct on a permanent basis special training courses on dispute settlement, so as to enable members’ experts to be better informed in this regard. 7.2. In addition, the FTAA Secretariat shall present annually a report on the use of the dispute settlement mechanism during the previous year, as well as the budget of own resources or of technical cooperation from various sources, among which multilateral organizations could be included. Such report shall also contain the activities through which effective participation, particularly of developing countries, would be sought.]