WTO Submissions on Trade and Environment

Doha Negotations | CTE Work Programme

WTO negotations under the Doha Mandate

• Paragraph 31(i): Relationship between WTO rules and specific trade obligations in multilateral agreements.
• Paragraph 31(ii): Information exchange between MEA secretariats and WTO committees, including observer status
• Paragraph 31(iii): Liberalisation in trade in environmental goods and services (including Item 3(B) of the CTE Work Programme)
  
  
• Paragraph 32(i): Effect of environmental measures on market access (including Item 6 of the CTE Work Programme)
• Paragraph 32(ii): Intellectual property rights, biodiversity and traditional knowledge (including paragraph 32(ii) and Item 8 of the CTE Work Programme)
• Paragraph 32(iii): Labelling for environmental purposes
  
  
• Paragraph 28: WTO disciplines on fisheries subsidies
• Paragraph 16: Market access for non-agricultural products (proposals related to fish and forest products)
  
  

10-point Work Programme of the Committee on Trade and Environment

• Items 1 & 5: The relationship between the provisions of the multilateral trading system and trade measures for environmental purposes, including those pursuant to multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs); and the relationship between the dispute settlement mechanisms in the multilateral trading system and those found in MEAs.
  
  
• Item 2: The relationship between environmental policies relevant to trade and environmental measures with significant trade effects and the provisions of the multilateral trading system.
  
  
• Item 3: The relationship between the provisions of the multilateral trading system and charges and taxes for environmental purposes and the relationship between the provisions of the multilateral trading system and requirements for environmental purposes relating to products, including standards and technical regulations, packaging, labelling and recycling.
  
  
• Item 4: The provisions of the multilateral trading system with respect to the transparency of trade measures used for environmental purposes and environmental measures and requirements which have significant trade effects
  
  
• Item 6: The effect of environmental measures on market access, especially in relation to developing countries, in particular to the least-developed among them, and environmental benefits of removing trade restrictions and distortions
  
  
• Item 6A: Sectoral Analysis: Agriculture
  
  
• Item 6B: Sectoral Analysis: Energy
  
  
• Item 6C: Sectoral Analysis: Fisheries
  
  
• Item 6D: Sectoral Analysis: Forestry
  
  
• Item 7: The issue of exports of domestically prohibited goods (DPGs).
  
  
• Item 8: The relevant provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
  
  
• Item 9: The work programme envisaged in the Decision on Trade in Services and the Environment.
  
  
• Item 10: Input to the relevant bodies in respect of appropriate arrangements for relations with intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations referred to in Article V of the WTO.