Environmental Requirements and Market Access: Turning Challenges into Opportunities

Geneva, Switzerland, 03 October 2007

The UNEP-UNCTAD Capacity-Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development is pleased to announce its symposium on “Environmental Requirements and Market Access: Turning Challenges into Opportunities”. The symposium will be held on 3rd October 2007 at the International Conference Centre Geneva (Meeting Room 5-6, 17 rue de Varembe, 1211 Geneva). Registration will open at 08.00 am and the symposium will start at 09:30 am.

The symposium, which will be organized back to back with the WTO’s Public Forum from 4 to 5 October 2007, will discuss both the challenges and opportunities for market access for developing countries offered by environmental standards and technical requirements in organic agriculture and electrical and electronic goods.

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Documents and Presentations

	Title	Author	File
	Final Agenda	Secretariat
	List of participants	Secretariat
	Concluding Remarks	Secretariat
	Leaflet	Secretariat
	Logistics, Information Note	Secretariat
	Opening Remarks made by Mr. Shafqat Kakakhel, Deputy Executive Director of UNEP	Secretariat
	Opening Remarks made by Mrs. Lakshmi Puri, Acting Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD	Secretariat
	Opening Remarks made by, Mr. Harsha V. Singh, Deputy Director-General, WTO	.
	Opening Statement by Mr. Paulo De Mesquita, Minister Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Brazil	.
	Opening Statement by Ms. Katharina Kummer Peiry, Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the Basel Convention/UNEP	.
	Opening Statement by Ambassador Eckart Guth, Permanent Delegation of the European Commission	.
	Sector Background Note – Organic Agriculture	.
	Sector Background Note – Electrical and Electronic Equipment	.
	Session I - Organic Production and Trade: Contributions, opportunities, challenges and constraints	Ms Echeverría
	Session I - Development of the East African Organic Products Standards: Unfolding trading opportunities within and out side the region	Mr Musa.K. Muwanga
	Session I - Organic Production in Rwanda	Mr George Kayonga
	Session II - EU developments in the sector of electrical and electronic equipment	Mr Kurt van der Herten
	Session II - Main Concerns & Key Challenges facing Developing Countries: Focus on the Situation in India	Mr R Goel
	Session II - Electric and electronic goods in Thailand: adjusting to environmental directives	Mr C Hengrasmee
	Final report	Secretariat

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