It also invited all WTO members to consider extending to a graduated country, as appropriate, the existing special and differential treatment and exemptions available to LDCs for a period appropriate to the development situation. A better understanding of the process of the phasing out and eventual loss of support measures is still to be established. In this regard, the CDP also suggested that an expert group be convened to consider the phasing out of LDC support measures with a view to identifying those that could be maintained for a certain period and proposing specific phasing-out periods.