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AGRICULTURE: WORK IN THE WTO The current negotiations WTO members agreed to initiate negotiations for continuing the agricultural trade reform process one year before the end of the implementation period, i.e. by the end of 1999. These talks began in early 2000 under the original mandate of Article 20 of the Agriculture Agreement. At the November 2001 Doha Ministerial Conference, the agriculture negotiations became part of the single undertaking in which virtually all the linked negotiations were to end by 1 January 2005. > Original mandate: Article 20 (opens in pop-up window) |
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Chairs’ texts and meetings (called Special Sessions of the Committee on Agriculture) > back to top Current chairperson of Special Sessions of the Committee on Agriculture. Chairperson’s drafts, documents, reports etc
Proceedings: derestricted WTO Secretariat reports on the meetings (download in MS Word format)
Phase 1 (2000–2001) > back to top
Phase 2 (2001–2002) > back to top Phase 2 negotiations were mainly “informal” and off the record. Unofficial summaries of proposals and discussions can be found ... > here Negotiating proposals, notes and discussion papers
Preparations for modalities and the frameworks (2002–2004) > back to top Now under the Doha Development agenda, the negotiations have a 31 March 2003 deadline to set “modalities” or targets (including numerical targets) for achieving the objectives set out in the Doha Ministerial Declaration: “substantial improvements in market access; reductions of, with a view to phasing out, all forms of export subsidies; and substantial reductions in trade-distorting domestic support”. This stage will determine the shape of the negotiations’ final outcome. > Press release on “modalities” work programme 27 March 2002 > Work programme: official text
Cancún draft ‘frameworks’ > Members’ proposals and chairs’ drafts
> The “July 2004 package” and the 1 August 2004 agreed framework
Secretariat background papers > back to top > full search (see below)
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