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27 March 2001
(01-1535)
Committee
on Agriculture
Special Session
Sixth Special Session of the Committee on Agriculture
Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Jorge Voto-Bernales, to the General Council
1.
The Special Session of the Committee on Agriculture,
which was established by the General Council to conduct
the negotiations for continuing the reform process under
Article 20 of the Agreement on Agriculture (WT/GC/M/53,
paragraph 39 refers), held its sixth meeting on 22-23
March 2001.
2. The agenda as set out in
WTO/AIR/1502 was adopted.
3. The following new or additional
proposals for continuing the reform process were
presented and/or examined at the meeting: (i) a proposal
by India on Negotiations on WTO Agreement on
Agriculture (NG/W/102); (ii) a proposal by Norway
on WTO Agriculture Negotiations (NG/W/101);
(iii) a proposal by Poland on WTO Negotiations for
Continuation of the Reform Process in the Agricultural
Sector (NG/W/103); (iv) a proposal by MERCOSUR,
Chile, Colombia and Bolivia on State Trading
Enterprises (NG/W/104 and Corr.1); (v)
Proposal by Morocco (NG/W/105); (vi) a
proposal by Turkey on WTO Agriculture
Negotiations (NG/W/106 and Corr.1); (vii)
Comprehensive Proposal by the Arab Republic of
Egypt to the WTO Negotiations on Agriculture
(NG/W/107/Rev.1); (viii) Malian Proposals for the
Future Negotiations on Agriculture (NG/W/99); (ix)
WTO Negotiations on Agriculture Proposal by
Nigeria (NG/W/130); (x) Negotiating Proposals
by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (NG/W/135);
(xi) a proposal by Kenya on WTO Negotiations on
Agriculture (NG/W/136); (xii) Agricultural
Trade Negotiations in the WTO Preliminary
Positions of Senegal (NG/W/137); (xiii)
Proposal by Mexico for the Negotiations on
Agriculture in the World Trade Organization (WTO)
(NG/W/138); (xiv) a proposal by MERCOSUR, Bolivia, Chile,
Costa Rica, Guatemala, India and Malaysia on Export
Credits for Agricultural Products (NG/W/139); (xv)
a proposal by Jordan on WTO Agriculture
Negotiations (NG/W/140); (xvi) WTO African
Group: Joint Proposal on the Negotiations on
Agriculture (NG/W/142), and (xvii) a proposal by
Namibia on WTO Negotiations on Agriculture
(NG/W/143). In addition, a technical submission by
Argentina on Legitimate Non-Trade Concerns
(NG/W/88) was considered and a submission on WTO
Negotiations on Agriculture (NG/W/141) was made
available by Croatia.
4. It was noted that the Special
Session had completed its consideration of all the
proposals and technical submissions that had been tabled
in the course of the first phase of the negotiations.
5. A number of the statements made at
this meeting are to be circulated in the series
G/AG/NG/W/- at the request of the delegations concerned.
These statements will be listed in an addendum to this
report in due course. Statements made at the previous
(fifth) Special Session but circulated after the
appearance of the Chairmans report on that meeting
(G/AG/NG/5) are: Lithuania (NG/W/127); Poland (NG/W/128);
Dominican Republic, Honduras, Cuba and El Salvador
(NG/W/129); Hungary on behalf of Albania, Bulgaria,
Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary,
the Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, the
Slovak Republic and Slovenia (NG/W/131); Hungary
(NG/W/132); Venezuela (NG/W/133); and the Czech Republic
(NG/W/134).
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