ENVIRONMENTAL DATABASE FOR 2014
Note by the Secretariat[1]
1.
The WTO
Environmental Database (EDB) is prepared in response to a recommendation in the
1996 Report of the Committee on Trade and Environment (WT/CTE/1) for the
Secretariat to compile and update annually all environment-related
notifications to the WTO.[2]
2.
The EDB for 2014
covers information on: (i) environment-related measures notified under WTO
Agreements (Section 1); (ii) environment-related provisions of notified
preferential or Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) (Section 2); and (iii)
environment-related measures mentioned in Trade Policy Reviews (TPRs) (Section 3).[3]
3.
Information in
the EDB is drawn from the 3,773 notifications submitted by WTO Members and the
18 TPRs circulated in 2014. The EDB is being circulated in two parts: this
document,
which contains a brief description and overall analysis of the
environment-related notifications submitted by WTO Members and TPRs in 2014;
and the database exclusively
circulated electronically under WT/CTE/EDB/14/Add.1, which provides the
underlying data, charts, and tables used for the analysis. The EDB is available
at the WTO website: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/envir_e/envdb_e.htm.
4.
The electronic
data in WT/CTE/EDB/14/Add.1 enables users to search through all EDB environment-related
information according to specific criteria, for instance by Member, Agreement,
type of measure, sector, or environmental objective. The electronic file is divided into two main
worksheets: "Notifications",
listing all the environment-related notifications; and "TPRs",
providing the environment-related information mentioned in TPRs. In addition, a third worksheet entitled
"Summary" is included to allow users to retrieve pre-defined summary
tables and graphs for the period 1997 - 2014. A detailed user's guide is
included in Annex V to this document.
[1] This
document has been prepared under the Secretariat's own responsibility and is
without prejudice to the positions of Members or to their rights and
obligations under the WTO.
[2] Previous
Environmental Databases have been circulated in the following documents: EDB
1996 in WT/CTE/W/46, EDB 1997 in WT/CTE/W/77, EDB 1998 in WT/CTE/W/118,
EDB 1999 in WT/CTE/W/143, EDB 2000 in WT/CTE/W/195, EDB 2001 in
WT/CTE/EDB/1, EDB 2002 in WT/CTE/EDB/2, EDB 2003 in WT/CTE/EDB/3, EDB 2004 in
WT/CTE/EDB/4, EDB 2005 in WT/CTE/EDB/5, EDB 2006 in WT/CTE/EDB/6, EDB 2007
in WT/CTE/EDB/7, EDB 2008 in WT/CTE/EDB/8, EDB 2009 in WT/CTE/EDB/9 and Add.1,
EDB 2010 in WT/CTE/EDB/10 and Add.1, EDB 2011 in WT/CTE/EDB/11 and
Add.1, EDB 2012 in WT/CTE/EDB/12 and Add.1, and EDB 2013
in WT/CTE/EDB/13 and Add.1.
[3] The list
of search words is contained in Annex I to this document. See also the
following documents containing information on search words: WT/CTE/W/46, WT/CTE/W/78
and WT/CTE/W/102.