Request for Observer Status by the World Health Organization

World Trade Organization WT/CTE/COM/8 1 May 2001 (01-2202) Committee on Trade and Environment Original: English request for observer status by the World health organization The following communication, dated 18 April 2001, has been received from the Executive Director of the External Relations and Governing Bodies of the World Health Organization (WHO) requesting observer status for the WHO in the Committee on Trade and Environment. The original letter and the supporting document can be consulted in Office 3025, Centre William Rappard. _______________ The World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization have developed an institutional dialogue over several years which has materialized in the observer status granted to WHO by the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, and the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. More recently, a dialogue has been e