32. The Chairman recalled that the General Council had noted at its meeting in December 19952 that, pending the agreement on a long-term policy of the WTO on derestriction of documents, the procedures and customary practices regarding document derestriction followed under the GATT would be applied. Pursuant to this, the Chairman proposed that the Council decide to derestrict notifications of national legislation under Article 63.2 as well as notifications made under Articles 1.3 and 3.1 that had already been issued, and that, in future, such notifications would be circulated as unrestricted documents.
