Committee on Trade and Environment - Special Session - Report by the Chairman of the Special Session of the Committee on Trade and Environment to the Trade Negotiations Committee
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- 2006/05/04
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World Trade
Organization TN/TE/15
27 April 2006 (06-1997) Committee on Trade and Environment
Special Session
report by the chairMAN of the SPECIAL SESSION OF
THE committee on trade and environment
to the Trade Negotiations Committee
I. introduction
At the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference, Ministers have instructed Members to intensify the negotiations, without prejudging their outcome, on all parts of Paragraph 31 of the Doha Declaration to fulfil the mandate. Furthermore, Ministers have called upon Members to complete the work expeditiously under Paragraph 31(iii).
Since Hong Kong, the CTE in Special Session (CTESS) has held one formal meeting on 2122 February 2006. The meeting focused mainly on the way forward under Paragraph 31(iii), which relates to environmental goods and services. At this meeting, Members agreed to engage in technical work to examine products, systems and projects falling under different categories identified by delegations in