Committee on Trade and Environment - Special Session - Statement by the OECD Secretariat on the OECD's Work on Environmental Goods and Services at the Committee on Trade and Environment Special Session (CTE[...]13 October 2004 - Paragraph 31

World Trade Organization TN/TE/INF/8 11 October 2004 (04-4236) Committee on Trade and Environment Special Session Original: English Statement by THE OECD SECRETARIAT on THE OECD’s WORK ON Environmental Goods AND SERVICES At the Committee on trade and environment special Session (CTESS) Meeting of 12-13 OCTOBER 2004 Paragraph 31 (iii) The following communication, dated 8 October 2004, is being circulated at the request of the OECD Secretariat. _______________ A sustained interest in environmental goods and services OECD interest in the environmental goods and services (EG&S) goes back more than a decade. It arose initially as part of its work on environmental policy and industrial competitiveness. A report prepared by the Industry Committee in 1992 described market developments in the environment industry and the role of environmental policies (OECD, 1992). A subsequent report (OECD, 1996a) expanded and deepened the analysis, collected av