FOLLOW-UP NOTE FROM THE CHAIRPERSON OF
THE council for trade in goods (CTG)
Meeting
of 30 april – 1 may 2024
1.1. This document has been prepared under the responsibility of the outgoing
Chairperson of the Council for Trade in Goods (hereinafter "CTG", or
"the Council") with a view to implementing the Council's agreement[1] by providing a follow‑up note
to this formal meeting, and in preparation of the next formal meeting of the
Council, which has been scheduled for 2–3 July 2024.
1.2. Please take note of the following information:
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SUBJECT
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DETAIL
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1._
Remarks by the Chairperson:
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The
Chairperson's remarks under each item are available on eAgenda.
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2._
Decisions taken at the meeting:
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1._ Members agreed to suspend Agenda
Item 6 on the Appointment of Officers to the Subsidiary Bodies of the
Council for Trade in Goods, and also agreed that the incoming Chairperson of this Council will
reconvene the meeting to address this agenda item once the appointments
process has been finalized. The Chair also requested any Member having a concern
on the draft slate of names that was presented at the informal meeting (_ICN/CTG/14) to send him, by close of business on 8 May, a written
communication explaining the reasons for their objection.
2._ The Council elected Ambassador Clare
KELLY (New Zealand) as its Chairperson for the year 2024‑2025.
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Upcoming meetings:
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The
provisional dates of upcoming meetings of the Council are currently described
in the tentative calendar of meetings (_JOB/CTG/45). A regularly updated list of such
information is available via the WTO Calendar of meetings and the Council for Trade in Goods gateway.
The
Secretariat reported to Members on the status of actions taken pursuant to
the Decisions this Council had adopted in 2023 to improve its functioning,
which included an Introductory Session on the Council for
Trade in Goods, held on 18 April 2024, and an Informal Session on
the Digital Tools used in the CTG and its Subsidiary Bodies, held on 30 April 2024.
The Secretariat report is available on eAgenda and the presentations and recordings of
both sessions are available here (password protected).
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4._
Key dates for the upcoming meeting:
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Please take
note of the following tentative dates concerning the CTG's next formal
meeting:
Date of the
meeting: 2–3 July 2024
Activation
of the meeting's eAgenda: 3 June 2024
Circulation
of the meeting's initial convening notice: 3 June 2024
Closure of
the meeting's agenda: 17 June 2024
Circulation
of the meeting's revised convening notice, including the meeting's tentative
agenda: 18 June 2024
Circulation
of the meeting's annotated agenda: 21 June 2024 at the latest
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5._
Guidance on how to add items to the agenda of the
next meeting
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_Members can add items to the agenda in two ways:
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Directly through
the Collaborative
Agenda section of the eAgenda[2]; or
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By sending an email
to the CTG team (Roy.Santana@wto.org, Arti.Daswani@wto.org and Craig.James@wto.org). For
transparency, the Secretariat will also include any such request in the
eAgenda.
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6._
Agreed items reverted to by the Council, and standing
items
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At the upcoming meeting, the Council will consider the following
standing agenda item:
1._
Notified Regional Trade Agreements.
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[1] At its
meeting of 30 November–1 December 2023, the Council for Trade in
Goods agreed on a trial basis on "the creation of a new 'follow‑up'
document, under the authority of the Chairperson, concisely collating agreed
next steps, deadlines, and actions to be taken by delegations in preparation
for the next formal meeting." (_G/L/1522).