Follow Up to the Workshop on TBT Related Technical Assistance - Proposal from New Zealand for an Information Coordination Mechanism - Submission by New Zealand

World Trade Organization G/TBT/W/216 30 June 2003 (03-3453) Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: English Follow up to the Workshop on TBT Related Technical Assistance Proposal from New Zealand for an Information Coordination Mechanism Submission by New Zealand 1. New Zealand’s accompanying submission on technical assistance raises a number of issues concerning the objective of addressing a perceived information gap on TBT related technical assistance. The closure of such a perceived gap may assist in furthering the objective of more coordination and transparency in the delivery of technical assistance. This was identified as an important issue in the Committee’s Workshop on technical assistance held earlier this year. 2. New Zealand has observed that a large quantity of information on assistance activities in the TBT field is already available. However the existence of different information formats and different databases means that