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Guillermo Valles Director, DITC, UNCTAD

Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget, 62nd session (Technical Cooperation). Guillermo Valles Director, DITC, UNCTAD. September 2012. DITC Structure. Areas of Expertise and Services. Cluster 1.

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Guillermo Valles Director, DITC, UNCTAD

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  1. Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and CommoditiesWorking Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget, 62nd session (Technical Cooperation) Guillermo Valles Director, DITC, UNCTAD September 2012

  2. DITC Structure

  3. Areas of Expertise and Services Cluster 1 • Trade data bases e.g. TRAINS/WITS • NTMs • Institutional and capacity building on competition law; COMPAL; Africomp, Voluntary Peer Reviews • Trade and development aspects of Climate Change • Sustainable trade and production (Biotrade, Biofuels,Organic agriculture) • Trade policy formulation • Trade preferences (GSP) • Trade negotiations in WTO and in RTAs • WTO accession • GSTP • Services, trade and development • New and dynamic sectors of world trade • Creative industries Cluster 4 Cluster 5 Cluster 2

  4. DITC Technical Cooperation Activities 2011 Country-specific activities Regional activities

  5. GLOBAL T.C. ACTIVITIES 2011 Trade policy, trade negotiations and commercial diplomacy ACP Strategic Brainstorming on Non-Tariff Trade Barriers (3 February 2011, Geneva) African countries, LDCs and SVES  tailored assistance on WTO Agreements and DDA (Geneva) China Services Congress (24-30 May 2011, China) Commonwealth Secretariat's Workshop on Regional Trade Integration in Pacific (26 September, UK) Developing countries  preparatory events for the WTO 8th Ministerial Conference (November-December 2011) Task Force on Services Statistics, including its meeting 10 November, 2011 in France

  6. GLOBAL T.C. ACTIVITIES 2011 • Competition Policy and Consumer Protection • 1st International Forum on Consumer Protection (March 2011, Ecuador) • 5th edition of the Ibero-american Forum of Consumer Protection Agency (September 2011) • Workshop on the "Role of competition policy during times of crisis" (21-23 September 2011, Argentina)

  7. GLOBAL T.C. ACTIVITIES 2011 • Trade, environment & development Rio + 20 preparatory events and “green economy” issues. •  Roundtable: Making the transition to a green economy fair and equitable (23 June, 2011, Geneva) • Green Growth and Development Workshop - OECD (28 June 2011, France) • Joint OECD Working Party on Trade and Environment (16 December 2011, France) • Joint UNCTAD - Energy Pact Foundation Conference (29 November - 1 December 2011, Geneva) • South Centre and UNDP Workshop on Trade, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policy Linkage Issues (15-16 November, Geneva) • UNEP/Ville de Genève conference (18 October 2011, Geneva • UNCSD events and the conference itself: • 2nd Preparatory Committee Meeting UNCSD (7-8 March, USA) • Chile  Regional Preparatory Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNCSD) • Regional Preparatory Meeting for ECE Region (1-2 December 2011, Switzerland) • 2nd Inter-sessional Meeting of UNCSD (15-16 December 2011, USA) • WTO Public Forum on "Preparing for Rio 2012: Trade opportunities and challenges in a green economy" (Geneva, 21 September 2011)

  8. GLOBAL T.C. ACTIVITIES 2011 • Trade, environment & development Organic Agriculture. • 1st European Commission-African Union Workshop on African organic agriculture (July 2011, Belgium) • Discussion by expert group of IFOAM and FoodPlus on two DITC studies: "Organic Plus" and "GlobalGAP Interpretative Guidelines" (8 June, 2011, Germany) • GOMA Working Group for Cooperation on Organic Labeling and Trade for Asia (September 2011, South Korea)

  9. GLOBAL T.C. ACTIVITIES 2011 • Trade, environment & development Other technical cooperation activities. • International Expert Workshop in support of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 (20-24 June, 2011, UK) • International Sustainable Foods Summit (23-24 June 2011, Netherlands) • Seminar on the compatibility of the EU sustainability criteria for Biofuels with WTO rules (30 November, 2011, Belgium) • Risoe Energy Conference (10-12 May, 2011, Denmark) • Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (15 June 2011, Switzerland) • CITES Asian Snake Trade Workshop (11-14 April 2011, China) • UNFCCC - COP17 (28 November - 9 December 2011, South Africa)

  10. 185 Technical Cooperation Outputs in 2010-2011

  11. Regional outreach in 2011: 138 countries assisted * Thematic and regional activities undertaken coverage a much wider range of countries

  12. IMPACT Strengthened economic resiliencecompetitive and sustainable production and export baseand more specific integration of development goals Improved market access and entry conditions for exports of developing countries Better consideration and integration of development dimension into multilateral and regional trade negotiations and agreements Effective participation in multilateral trading system of some 20 countries in WTO accession Enhanced capacities to address anti-competitive practices andconsumer interests

  13. THANK YOU

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