In US – Upland Cotton Sample Clauses

In US – Upland Cotton the Panel considered that the absence of any reference to any provision of the Agreement on Agriculture in Appendix 2 of the DSU had to be given meaning: "[T]here is no special dispute settlement requirement foreseen in the covered agreements in respect of a panel's consideration of the fulfilment of Article 13 conditions. The issue of fulfilment of the conditions of Article 13 of the Agreement on Agriculture is to be resolved using generally applicable DSU rules and procedures. The fact that certain very specific provisions are included in Appendix 2 of the DSU as special or additional rules indicates that, when the drafters intended to make a particular provision applicable as a special or additional dispute settlement rule, they did so explicitly. Therefore, their failure to include a reference to any provision of the Agreement on Agriculture in the text of Appendix 2 demonstrates that they did not intend to make any provision of that Agreement a special or additional dispute settlement rule. It is not necessary for us to look for any further interpretive guidance on this issue."10