Sesión anual 2016 de la Conferencia parlamentaria sobre la OMC: "¿Qué futuro le espera a la OMC?"
Ginebra, 13 y 14 de junio de 2016
Organizada conjuntamente por la Unión Interparlamentaria y el Parlamento Europeo
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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