Committee on Agriculture (Special Session)

17-19 June*, 20 June.

· Export competition, including export restrictions: technical elaboration of detailed possible modalities, including rules-related elements.

· See TN/AG/1.

Committee on Trade and Development (Special Session)

16 May, 14 June

· Identification of special and differential treatment provisions that should be made mandatory.

· Consideration of the practical and legal consequences of making such provisions mandatory.

· Modalities for making such provisions more precise, effective and operational.

· Means for improving the utilisation of special and differential treatment provisions, especially by LDCs.

· See TN/CTD/1, WTO/AIR/1787.

Committee on Trade and Development (Special Session)

2 July

· Agenda not yet available.

17 July

· Agenda not yet available.

Committee on Trade and Environment (Special Session)

11-12 June

· Adoption of the results of informal consultations on the organisation of  future work.

· Consideration of paragraph 31 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration:

· The relationship between WTO rules and specific trade obligations in multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).

· Information exchange between the WTO and MEA secretariats.

· The reduction or elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade in environmental goods and services.

Council for Trade in Services (Special Session)

5-7 June

· Assessment of trade in services.

· Treatment of autonomous liberalisation.

· Modalities for the special treatment of LDCs.

· Consideration of negotiating proposals received.

· See TN/S/1 (S/CSS/11), WTO/AIR/1814.

23-26 July

· Agenda not yet available.

Council for TRIPS (Special Session)

28 June

· Continuation of discussions and ideas previously put forward, along with new ideas and proposals.

· Continued identification of aims for phase two (final negotiations).

· The Chairman is to distribute a note before the meeting, setting out particular points to be addressed.

· See TN/IP/1, TN/IP/M/1.

Dispute Settlement Body (Special Session)

21 May

· Discussion of proposals already submitted (“track two”) and open-ended discussion of issues and objectives for the negotiations (“track one”).

· See WTO/AIR/1795, TN/DS/1 and TN/DS/W/6.

15-16 July

· Agenda not yet available.

Negotiating Group on Rules

8-10 July

· Subsidies and countervailing measures.

· Regional trade agreements.

· Antidumping.

· See TN/RL/1.

Negotiating Group on Market Access

11-12 July

· Agenda not yet available.

· Work programme still under discussion.

Trade Negotiations Committee

18-19 July

· Agenda not yet available.

Committee on Customs Valuation

3-4 July

· To include discussion of implementation issues in tirets 57-61 of JOB(01)/152/Rev.1, such as:

- The status of sole agents, distributors and concessionaires.

- Use of the higher value where more than one transaction value is found for similar or identical goods.

- Use of third country export prices.

- Inclusion of the cost of certain services provided directly or indirectly by the buyer, at no cost or at reduced cost, for the production of imported goods.

Committee on Market Access

12 June

· Discussion will include outstanding implementation issues, such as administration of quantitative restrictions and measures to redistribute negotiating rights in favour of small and medium-sized exporters.

· See WTO/AIR/1820.

Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

25-26 June

· To include discussion of the implementation of special and differential treatment provisions.

· Other agenda items can be added until 13 June, except new proposals on monitoring the use of international standards, which must be submitted by 24 May.

Committee on Trade and Development

1 July

· Agenda not yet available.

· Paragraph 12 of the Doha Decision on Implementation-Related Issues and Concerns assigns the following tasks to this committee:

- to identify mandatory and non-binding special and differential treatment provisions;

- to consider the legal and practical implications of converting such provisions into mandatory ones and to identify those that should be made mandatory;

- to examine ways of making special and differential treatment provisions more effective and helping developing countries make better use of them;

- to consider how special and differential treatment can be incorporated into WTO rules.

Committee on Trade and Environment

13-14 June

· Information session including presentations by several Multilateral Environmental Agreement secretariats on trade-related technical assistance and capacity building.

· Relevant provisions of the TRIPS Agreement (paragraph 32(ii) of the Doha Ministerial Declaration).

· Technical assistance, capacity building and environmental reviews (paragraph 33 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration).

· Developmental and environmental aspects of the negotiations (paragraph 51 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration).

· See WTO/AIR/1801.

· Trade facilitation, including developing countries’ needs.

· Agreement on Textiles and Clothing: review and implementation-related issues.

· WTO/AIR/1799.

Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures

10 July

· Agenda not yet available.

· Under paragraph 12 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration, the Committee has an ongoing obligation to deal with the outstanding implementation issues in tirets 37-40 of JOB(01)/152/Rev.1:

- developing countries will have a further opportunity to notify existing measures which could then be maintained until the end of the new transition period;

- Article 5.3 must be amended and made mandatory;

- developing countries will be exempted from disciplines on domestic content requirements; and

- inclusion of specific provisions to give flexibility to developing countries to implement development policies.

WTO Body

5 June

· Procedures for termination, reduction and rectification of MFN exemptions.

· Proposals for a technical review of GATS provisions.

· Review of the Understanding on Accounting Rates in Telecommunications.

· See WTO/AIR/1810.

15-19 July

· Agenda not yet available.

· Paragraph 15 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration requires initial requests for specific commitments to be submitted by 30 June 2002 and initial offers by 31 March 2003.

22 July

· Agenda not yet available.

· Country experiences.

· The accession process and:

- market access;

- agriculture;

- technical barriers to trade;

- sanitary and phytosanitary standards;

- TRIPS; and

- services.

· Modalities for negotiations.

· Non-tariff measures.

· Use of databases in negotiations.

Working Group on Trade, Debt and Finance

11-12 July

· Agenda not yet available.

· The draft work programme covers:

- trade and the financial architecture;

- trade policy and financial stability;

- external debt and trade;

- market access for highly indebted low-income countries;

- coherence; and

- WTO rules.

· See WT/WGTDF/M/1 and WT/WGTDF/W/1.

Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology

6 June

· Agenda not available.

11 June

· Presentation of country experiences.

· Consideration of the future work programme, including the WTO Secretariat’s background note (WT/WGTTT/W/1) and a submission by the Like-Minded Group (WT/WGTTT/W/2).

· See WTO/AIR/1815.

Working Party on GATS Rules

3 June

· Negotiations on safeguards, subsidies and government procurement.

· See WTO/AIR/1803.