Committee on Agriculture - Special Session - Summary Report on the Seventh Meeting of the Special Session Held on 26 - 27 March 2001 - Note by the Secretariat
World Trade
Organization RESTRICTED G/AG/NG/R/7
2 August 2001 (01-3837) Committee on Agriculture
Special Session
SUMMARY REPORT ON THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE SPECIAL SESSION
HELD ON 26-27 MARCH 2001
Note by the Secretariat
As agreed by the General Council at its meeting of 7–8 February 2000 the negotiations under Article 20 of the Agreement on Agriculture on continuing the reform process of agriculture trade were conducted in a Special Session of the Committee on Agriculture (WT/GC/M/53 paragraph 39 refers). The seventh such meeting took place on 26-27 March 2001 under the Chairmanship of Ambassador Jorge Voto-Bernales of Peru. As agreed in the work programme for the first phase of the negotiations, this meeting included a stock-taking exercise of the first phase of the negotiations (G/AG/NG/1, paragraph 6(b) refers).
The present report provides a detailed summary of the Committee's discussions on substantive matters under the relevant agenda items a