Committee on Trade and Environment - Special session - Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Manuel A. J. Teehankee, to the Trade Negotiations Committee

World Trade Organization TN/TE/20 21 April 2011 (11-2083) Committee on Trade and Environment Special Session Committee on Trade and Environment in Special Session Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Manuel A. J. Teehankee, to the Trade Negotiations Committee This report to the Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) provides an update of progress made in the Committee on Trade and Environment in Special Session (CTESS) since my last written report to the TNC in March 2010. It also aims at identifying areas that will require further attention from Members to bring negotiations to a successful conclusion on all three parts of the mandate in Paragraph 31 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration. The report reflects the work undertaken pursuant to the announcement by the Chairman of the TNC in November 2010 of an intensive work programme through the beginning of 2011, and complies with his guidance for draft texts to be developed so they may appear towards the end