Working Group on Transparency in Government Procurement - Report on the Meeting of 18 June 2003 - Note by the Secretariat

World Trade Organization RESTRICTED WT/WGTGP/M/18 7 July 2003 (03-3617) Working Group on Transparency in Government Procurement report on the meeting of 18 June 2003 Note by the Secretariat The Working Group on Transparency in Government Procurement held its eighteenth meeting on 18 June 2003 under the chairmanship of Ambassador Ronald Saborío Soto (Costa Rica). The agenda for the meeting consisted of: (i) transparency-related provisions in existing international instruments on government procurement and national procedures and practices; (ii) technical assistance and capacity building as called for by paragraph 26 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration; and (iii) other business, in particular the preparation of the Group's Report to the General Council before the Cancun Ministerial Conference. The Working Group agreed to adopt the agenda as proposed. A. transparency-related provisions in existing international instruments on government procurement an