Basic Instruments and Selected Documents (BISD)
The principal widely-available printed source for documents on the GATT is the Basic Instruments and Selected Documents (BISD) series published by the Secretariat.
- Volume I - 1952 includes the text of the General Agreement (incorporating the first six protocols of amendment) and other instruments and procedures.
- Volume II - 1952 includes decisions, declarations, resolutions, rulings and reports of the first six sessions of the CONTRACTING PARTIES.
- Volume I (revised) - 1955 includes the text of the General Agreement incorporating all of the Review Session amendments, and the text of the Agreement on the Organization for Trade Cooperation.
- Volume III - 1958 includes the text of the General Agreement as in force in 1958
- Volume IV -1969 includes the text of the General Agreement as in force in 1969 after the addition of Part IV, the text of the Protocol of Provisional Application and, in an Appendix, a guide to the legal sources of all the GATT provisions and the titles, effective dates and UN Treaty Series (UNTS) references of all the Protocols of amendment.
- Supplements 1 - 42 (1953 - 1994) The BISD series contains the texts of legal instruments drawn up by the CONTRACTING PARTIES or under their auspices, as well as decisions, resolutions, recommendations, reports, texts of protocols of accession and other relevant material. Supplements to the BISD have been published approximately annually since 1953. Since the Fourteenth Supplement, each Supplement has included a cumulative index to all material in the Supplements and Volume II
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