Committee on Trade and Environment - Special Session - Summary Report on the Tenth Meeting of the Committee on Trade and Environment in Special Session - Note by the Secretariat

World Trade Organization RESTRICTED TN/TE/R/10 3 December 2004 (04-5277) Committee on Trade and Environment Special Session SUMMARY REPORT ON THE Tenth MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE ON TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT in SPECIAL SESSION 12-13 October 2004 Note by the Secretariat The Committee on Trade and Environment Special Session (CTESS) held its tenth meeting on 12-13 October 2004 on the basis of the agenda set out in the convening airgram, WTO/AIR/2372. I. Paragraph 31 (I) - WTO Rules and Specific Trade Obligations in MEAs The representative of Australia presented a new Australian submission under this item, document TN/TE/W/45. The submission was intended to build on the experience exchange on the negotiation and implementation of specific trade obligations (STOs) in multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) that had taken place at recent meetings. It also built on document TN/TE/W/7 in which Australia had suggested a concrete, rather than a hypothetica