MARCHÉS PUBLICS: SYMPOSIUM, GENÈVE — 11-12 FÉVRIER 2010
Symposium sur l'Accord sur les marchés publics
L’Accord de l’OMC sur les marchés publics: Importance pour le développement et le commerce, contexte en mutation et perspectives futures
Présentations
et documents d'information
uniquement en anglais
DAY 1, THURSDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2010
09:30 |
Mr. Pascal Lamy, Director-General, WTO > Keynote remarks |
09:50 | Welcoming remarks: Mr. Nicholas Niggli, Chairman, WTO Committee on Government Procurement |
09:55 |
Organizational matters: Mr. Robert Anderson, WTO Secretariat |
SESSION 1: Developmental and trade significance of government procurement |
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Subject |
Speakers |
10:00 – 10:20 |
1.1 Economic and developmental significance of government procurement: benefits to developing countries of transparency and competition disciplines |
Prof. Simon Evenett, |
10:20 – 10:40 |
1.2 Public procurement and international governance: factors
propelling us toward a global procurement market |
Robert Anderson |
10:40 – 11:00 |
1.3 General discussion |
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SESSION 2: Government procurement in the WTO: basic disciplines and emerging perspectives |
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Time |
Subject |
Speakers |
11:20 – 11:40 |
2.1 Introduction to the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA): existing and revised texts, and prospects for enlargement of the Agreement |
Mr. Robert Anderson, |
11:40 – 12:00 |
2.2 The revised GPA text: relation to the coverage negotiations and possible ways forward |
Ms. Diane De Marliave, |
12:00 – 12:20 |
2.3 The UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services: synergies and complementarities with the GPA |
Ms. Caroline Nicholas, |
12:20 – 12:45 |
2.4 General discussion |
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SESSION 3: Procurement reforms and the relevance of international disciplines: market access and regional perspectives |
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Time |
Subject |
Speakers |
14:15 – 14:40 |
3.1 Market access opportunities under the existing GPA |
Ms. Jean Heilman Grier, |
14:40 – 15:00 |
3.2 Procurement reform and international disciplines: perspectives for Asian economies |
Mr. Harsha Singh, |
15:00 – 15:20 |
3.3 Procurement reform and international disciplines: an African perspective |
Dr. Gervais NKANAGU, Ambassador, |
15:20 – 15:40 |
3.4 General discussion |
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SESSION 4: GPA implementation issues: domestic review procedures, sub-central government coverage and statistics |
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Time |
Subject |
Speakers |
16:20 – 16:40 |
4.1 Implementation of the GPA in Switzerland: meeting the challenge of securing effective involvement by sub-central government units |
Mr. Patrick Leduc, |
16:00 – 16:20 |
4.2 Special and differential treatment
under the existing and revised GPA texts |
Ms. Anna Caroline Müller, |
16:40 – 17:00 |
4.3 A vision of GPA statistics in the year 2015: what we hope to have and how to get there |
Mr. Olivier Coppens, |
17:00 – 17:30 |
4.4 General discussion |
DAY 2, FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2010
SESSION 5: Accession to the GPA: changing context and future prospects |
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Time |
Subject |
Speakers |
09:30 – 09:50 |
5.1 Prospects for GPA accession by large developing countries: a Latin American perspective |
Mr. Alejandro Jara, |
09:50 – 10:10 |
5.2 Accession to the GPA: processes, procedures and current state of play |
Mr. Kodjo Osei-Lah, |
10:10 – 10:30 |
5.3 Implementing GPA-compliant domestic
review procedures: insights from international experience |
Prof. Steven Schooner, |
10:30 – 10:50 |
5.4 Issues concerning accession and the future evolution of the Agreement |
Prof. Sue Arrowsmith, |
10:50 – 11:10 |
5.5 General discussion |
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SESSION 6: Social policy and sustainable development issues |
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Time |
Subject |
Speaker |
11:30 – 12:00 |
6.1 Social and environmental policies under the GPA: some general reflections and emerging issues |
Prof. Sue Arrowsmith, |
12:00 – 12:20 |
6.2 Social policy issues in the government procurement sector: insights from US and international experience |
Prof. Steven Schooner, |
12:20 – 12:45 |
6.3 General discussion |
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SESSION 7: Government procurement in regional trade agreements |
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Time |
Subject |
Speakers |
14:15 – 14:40 |
7.1 Government procurement provisions in recent regional trade agreements: overview of results from Secretariat empirical analysis |
Ms. Anna Caroline Müller, |
14:40 – 15:00 |
7.2 The government procurement provisions of the EC-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement: implications for GPA accession |
Ms. Kamala Dawar |
15:00 – 15:20 |
7.3 Government procurement provisions in US free trade agreements and their relation to GPA disciplines |
Ms. Jean Heilman Grier, |
15:20 – 15:40 |
7.4 General discussion |
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SESSION 8: Government procurement: market governance issues |
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Time |
Subject |
Speakers |
16:00 – 16:20 |
8.1 Promoting integrity in government procurement systems: significance for the international trading system and practical insights |
Mr. Jonathan Denison Cross, |
16:20 – 16:40 |
8.2 The role of competition law in public procurement markets: an important adjunct to a liberalised government procurement regime |
Mr. Robert Anderson, |
16:40 – 17:00 |
8.3 General discussion |
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SESSION 9: Concluding session |
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Time |
Subject |
Speaker |
17:00 – 17:15 |
9.1 Rapporteur's reflections
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Prof. Steven Schooner, |
9.2 Closing remarks
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Mr. Antony Taubman |