Basic Instruments

BISD (Basic Instruments and Selected Documents) and the GATT Policy Negotiations

In relation to the GATT Policy Negotiations, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following explanation and/or definition of BISD (Basic Instruments and Selected Documents): A series of documents, updated at irregular intervals in supplemental volumes, containing decisions, waivers, and reports adopted by the GATT Contracting Parties and subsidiary bodies. The BISD comprises the body of GATT “case law.”