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| UNCTAD/ TED Palais des Nations, CH - 1211 Genève 10, Suisse trade.environment@unctad.org tél +41 (0)22 917 1330 Terms & conditions Privacy |
Joint UNCTAD/WTO Informal Information Session on Private Standards
Geneva, Switzerland. 25 June 2007
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are jointly organizing an informal information session on private standards on 25 June 2007. It will take place at the WTO headquarters in Geneva and is open to all UN and WTO Members. The session is being organized on the margins of the next meeting of the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. The SPS Committee has been discussing private standards in previous meetings. UNCTAD's Consultative Task Force on Environmental Requirements and Market Access for Developing Countries has prepared about a dozen of country-case studies and held several regional workshops on the developmental and market access impact of private voluntary standards. The purpose of the information session is to give UNCTAD and WTO Members the opportunity to familiarize themselves with different private standards schemes, particularly in the area of food safety. A first session will thus give an overview of different private standards schemes. A second session will focus on case studies, presenting different national experiences and the opportunities and challenges encountered. A final session will address trade and development implications.
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| Background Papers |
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| Background Note | Secretariat |  |
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| Agenda | Secretariat | |
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| Food Safety and Environmental Requirements in Export Markets - Friend or Foe for Producers of Fruit and Vegetables in Asian Developing Countries? (password-protected) | Secretariat | |
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| The Implications of Private-Sector Standards for Good Agricultural Practices Exploring options to facilitate market access for developing-country exporters of fruit and vegetables: experiences of Argentina, Brazil and Costa Rica (password-protected) | Secretariat | |
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| Private-Sector Standards and National Schemes for Good Agricultural Practices: How to Increase Developing Countries’ Exports of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables? Experiences in Malaysia, Thailand and Viet Nam (password-protected) | Secretariat | |
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| Requisitos Ambientales, Competitividad Internacional y Acceso a Mercados en América Central, Cuba y la República Dominicana Contexto internacional y experiencias nacionales, con referencia especial a los productos agrícolas | Secretariat | |
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| Reflecting National Circumstances and Development Priorities in National Codes on Good Agricultural Practices That Can be benchmarked to EUREPGAP – The Case Of Kenya | Secretariat | |
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| Reflecting National Circumstances and Development Priorities in National Codes on Good Agricultural Practices That Can be benchmarked to EUREPGAP – The Case Of Uganda | Secretariat | |
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| Reflecting National Circumstances and Development Priorities in National Codes on Good Agricultural Practices That Can be benchmarked to EUREPGAP – The Case Of Ghana | Secretariat | |
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| Chairman's summary | Chairman | |
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| Summary of SPS Committee Discussion on Private Standards | Secretariat | |
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| Global Food Safety Initiative | Kevin SWOFFER, KPS Resources Ltd | |
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| An Introduction to EurepGAP and other Private Sector Standards:Facilitating Trade through Safe and Sustainable Agriculture | Nigel Garbutt, EurepGAP | |
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| Overview of the ISO 22000 Family of Standards | Kevin McKinley, ISO | |
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| Tesco Nature’s Choice: An Example of a Private Scheme | Stephen Cox, CMI | |
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| Experiences on Adjustment to Private Standards in Key Export Markets, A Case of East Africa (Uganda) | Musa. K. Muwanga, NOGAMU | |
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| Brazilian Government Initiatives on Conformity Assessment Programs | Alfredo Lobo, Inmetro | |
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| Private Standards schemes and Developing Country Market Access: Findings from 4 case studies | Linda Fulponi, OECD | |
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| Private-sector standards on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and national GAP initiatives in developing countries: Comparison of national experiences | René Vossenaar | |
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| FAO’s assistance to developing countries in dealing with private standards | Pascal Liu, FAO | |
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| TBT and “Private Standards” | Erik Wijkström, WTO | |
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| Experiences in South East Asia | Christie F. Robert, QA Plus | |
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| Private standards and their implications for market access, development, WTO/trade rules | Elizabeth Guttenstein, ISEAL Alliance | |
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Contacts
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| Ulrich Hoffmann | Chief | tel: +41 (0)22 917 5780 Fax: +41 (0)22 917 0247 | |