246. The Chairman said that, in its Decision on the Doha Work Programme of 1 August 2004, the General Council had recalled Ministers' decision in Doha to review all special and differential treatment provisions with a view to strengthening them and making them more precise, effective and operational, and recognized the progress that had been made so far. As regards all those WTO bodies to which proposals in Category II had been referred, the General Council had instructed them to expeditiously complete the consideration of these proposals and report to the General Council, with clear recommendations for a decision, as soon as possible and no later than July 2005. This matter had been on the agenda of the last Council meeting, where the Council had had before it an informal Secretariat note summarizing the Council's work so far on the Category II proposals on special and differential treatment referred to it (JOB(04)/164). No comments had been made on the item at that time.
