Bridges Trade BioRes

Volume 5 • Number 8 29th April 2005

  • TIMBER CERTIFICATION ON INT'L, BUSINESS, NGO AGENDA
    TIMBER CERTIFICATION ON INT’L, BUSINESS, NGO AGENDA European businesses in a recent statement echoed civil society calls for the EU to introduce legislation to make it illegal to import illegally sourced timber and wood products into the European market. How to use certification schemes to ensure legal imports also continues to feature high on the agenda…
  • INVESTMENT AND SMARTER AG TRADE REQUIRED FOR ACCESS TO WATER, EXPERTS SAY
    INVESTMENT AND SMARTER AG TRADE REQUIRED FOR ACCESS TO WATER, EXPERTS SAY Participants at the 13th Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-13) meeting from 11-22 April in New York, US said that better management and increased investment in water and sanitation must become a political priority to reach international targets. A number…
  • In Brief
  • EU Drops Salmon Safeguards but Imposes New Duties on Norway
    The EU on 22 April revoked the safeguard measures they imposed in February this year against imports of farmed salmon from Chile, Norway and the Faroe Islands (see BRIDGES Trade BioRes, 18 February 2005). The decision came four days after Chile had asked the WTO to establish an arbitration panel, following a failure of the…
  • EU GM Corn Test in Place, Imports from US Resume
    The approval of a new test for GM corn strain Bt10 has led to an end of a week-long de facto ban on exports of US corn feed. A 15 April EU decision required all imports of corn feed and brewers’ grains from the US to be accompanied by an analytical report issued by an…
  • NAMA Negotiations Threaten Environment, NGO Says
    WTO Members have presented 72 notifications that challenge environmental and health standards, according to environmental group Friends of the Earth International (FOEI). According to a briefing released by the non-governmental organisation on 18 April, more than thirteen WTO Members have presented notifications as part of Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) negotiations describing other countries’…
  • Events
  • Events
    For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar. Please bear in mind that dates and times of WTO meetings are often changed, and that the WTO does not always announce the important informal meetings of the different bodies. Coming up in the next two weeks Ongoing Electronic…
  • Resources
  • Resources
    If you have a relevant resource (books, papers, bulletins, etc.) you would like to see announced in this section, please forward a copy or review by the BRIDGES staff to Sarah Mohan . ICTSD Resources AGRICULTURE NEGOTIATIONS AT THE WTO: THE JULY PACKAGE AND BEYOND. By ICTSD, April 2005. This comprehensive report examines and analyses negotiations in…