Editors' note: Appendix B provides the key provisions of the Doha draft modalities as revised in December 2008 relevant to the domestic support disciplines. The full text and others under negotiation in the Doha Round are available on the WTO website. We exercise some judgment for brevity of the appendix. The introductory comments of the chairman related to the entire draft modalities for agriculture are included for context. Then only Section I, Annex A and Annex B related specifically to domestic support are reproduced, along with the subsections of Annex M (Monitoring and Surveillance) related to domestic support notifications and review.

World Trade Organization

TN/AG/W/4/Rev.4, 6 December 2008

Committee on Agriculture Special Session

I think we have made progress since July, and the attached text, together with the separate papers, are an attempt to capture that.

Within the text itself there are a number of square brackets that have been deleted. It is clear that on a number of those, there cannot be said to be formal agreement. But, in earlier versions of the drafts where there were no square brackets, there was not always formal agreement either. Everything is conditional in the deepest sense in any case. But the changes made at this time now represent a best estimate of where there is additional good reason to believe there would prove to be consensus if everything was to come together as a modalities package.