Session annuelle 2016 de la Conférence parlementaire sur l'OMC "Quel futur pour l'OMC ?"
Genève, 13 et 14 juin 2016
Organisée conjointement par l'Union interparlementaire et le Parlement européen
Monday, 13 June
10:00 — 12:30 Pre-Conference session of the Steering Committee (in camera meeting, IPU Headquarters)
10:00 — 18:00 Registration of participants
15:00 — 15:30 Inaugural session
- Mr. Krister Örnfjäder, MP (Sweden), Co-Chairman of the
Parliamentary Conference on the WTO
Speech
- Mr. Bernd Lange, Chairman of the Committee on International Trade of the European Parliament, Co-Chairman of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO
Speech
- Ambassador Harald Neple, Permanent Representative of Norway to the WTO, Chairperson of the WTO General Council
15:30 — 16:30 Presentation of reports and interactive debate on the substantive theme
Making trade work for development after Nairobi
Rapporteurs
- Mr. Paul Rübig, Member of the European Parliament
Presentation
- Mr. Anurag Singh Thakur, MP (India)
Presentation
- Mr. Helmut Scholz, Member of the European Parliament
Presentation
- Mr. Dennis Dumisani Gamede, MP (South Africa)
Presentation
16:30 — 18:00 Dialogue with senior WTO negotiators and officials
WTO in the era of mega-regional trade agreements
Guest Speakers
- Ambassador Daniel Blockert, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the WTO, Chairman of the WTO Committee on Regional Trade Agreements
- Ambassador Marc Vanheukelen, Permanent Representative of the European Union to the WTO
- Ambassador Amr Ramadan, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the WTO
- Ambassador Junichi Ihara, Permanent Representative of Japan to the WTO
- Ambassador Fernando De Mateo Y Venturini, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the WTO
Moderator
- Mr. Bernd Lange, Chairman of the Committee on International Trade of the European Parliament, Co-Chairman of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO
18:00 — 19:30 Reception at the WTO
Tuesday, 14 June
10:00 — 11:00 Hearing with the WTO Deputy Director-General, Mr. Karl Brauner
Speech
Post-Nairobi work: reflections on the future of the WTO
11:00 — 11:20 Briefing session
Enacting the Trade Facilitation Agreement
Keynote speaker
- Ms. Nora Neufeld (WTO Secretariat)
Presentation
11:20 — 13:00 Continuation of interactive debate on the substantive theme
Making trade work for development after Nairobi
13:00 — 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 — 16:30 Panel discussion
Trade as a vehicle of social progress: The gender perspective
Panellists
- Ms. Nurhayati Ali Assegaf, MP (Indonesia)
Presentation
- Senator Azam Swat (Pakistan)
- Ms. Arancha González, Executive Director, International Trade Centre
- Ms. Noraini Ahmad, MP (Malaysia), Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
Moderator
- Ms. Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero Fernández, Member of the European Parliament
16:30 — 17:00 Briefing session
The riddles of the WTO dispute settlement system
Keynote speaker
- Ms. Valerie Hughes (WTO Secretariat)
Presentation
17:00 — 17:30 Closing session: adoption of the outcome document
Rapporteurs
- Mr. Bernd Lange,Member of the European Parliament
- Mr. Pablo Zalba Bidegain, Member of the European Parliament