The European Commission announced, on Monday 3 August, that the World Trade Organization (WTO) multi-party interim appeal arbitration arrangement (MPIA) has entered its operational phase.
Following a selection process which started in June this year, the participants in the MPIA (of which the EU and 22 other states are members) notified the WTO, on Friday 31 July, of the ten arbitrators who will hear appeals on the basis of the WTO panel reports in the MPIA, explains the Commission in its...