-
WTO Group On Rules Discusses Negotiating Agenda, Fisheries Subsidies
WTO Members at an informal meeting of the newly-established Negotiating Group on Rules on 28 February set a tentative schedule for their upcoming meetings in 2002. Disagreement, however, persisted over whether the issue of fisheries subsidies should be treated as a separate agenda item or be discussed under…
-
CTD Session On Special And Differential Treatment Snags On Procedure
At a 5 March Special Session of the WTO Committee on Trade and Development (CTD-SS) on special and differential treatment (S&D) for developing countries, developed and developing country Members sparred over the question of whether or not the CTD-SS was a negotiating forum. Despite the fact that the…
-
Preliminary Agreement On Environment Negotiation Structure
At a 1 March informal meeting of the Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE), WTO Members reached tentative agreement on how to organise and schedule not only negotiations mandated by para. 31 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration, but also regular sessions of the CTE. Scheduling As previously decided at a 3 February General Council meeting, negotiations on…
-
Codex Committee Stalls Over Equivalence Standard
Delegates at the Codex Committee On Food Import And Export Inspection And Certification Systems (meeting from 25 February to 1 March in Brisbane, Australia) failed to significantly move forward in their discussions on the Draft Guidelines on judging equivalence of sanitary measures in food inspection and certification systems. The Committee will now establish a Working…
-
Services: Domestic Regulation Discussed At OECD
Convening for a 4-5 March Services Experts Meeting jointly organised by the Trade Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank, OECD Members as well as some selected developing country WTO Members addressed the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) work programme on domestic regulation (GATS Article VI.4).…
- In Brief
-
ILO Launches Commission On Social Dimension Of Globalisation
EU MEMBERS PLEDGE TO RATIFY KYOTO PROTOCOL At a 4 March meeting of the Council of the European Union, the 15 EU Environment Ministers committed their countries to ratifying the Kyoto Protocol — the international agreement designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2 percent from 1990 levels by…
- WTO in Brief
-
Public Health, TK And Geographical Indications On TRIPS Council Agenda
WTO Members will convene for the first formal session of the Council for Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) after Doha on 5-7 March to discuss, inter alia, the Doha Declaration on TRIPs and Public Health, focusing in particular on para. 6 (compulsory licensing in countries with no or limited manufacturing capacity of pharmaceuticals)…
- Events
-
Events
For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar at: http://www.ictsd.org/cal/index.htm. Coming up this week in trade and sustainable development, 5-12 March 4-5 March, Ottawa, Canada: FIRST JOINT MEETING OF THE HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS OF THE AMERICAS. The meeting will serve as a follow-up to last year’s…
- 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 for review by the BRIDGES staff to Hugo Cameron, hcameron@ictsd.ch. Submissions of publications to ICTSD’s documentation centre would also be welcome (contact Matteo Rizzolli, mrizzolli@ictsd.ch). OECD…