At the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference, Ministers mandated the Special Session of the Committee on Trade and Development (Special Session) to:

expeditiously complete the review of all the outstanding Agreement‑specific proposals and report to the General Council, with clear recommendations for a decision; 

resume work on all other outstanding issues, including on the cross‑cutting issues, the Monitoring Mechanism and the incorporation of special and differential treatment (S&D) into the architecture of WTO rules and report on a regular basis to the General Council;  and

continue to coordinate its efforts with those bodies to which the 38 Category II proposals had been referred, which in turn had been instructed to complete consideration of these proposals and report with clear recommendations for a decision to the General Council.