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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 VallesDirector, DITC, UNCTAD
September 2012
DITC Structure
Director Mr. Guillermo Valles
Chief, Office of the Director
Mr. Bonapas Onguglo
Competition and Consumer
Protection Branch
Head
Mr. Hassan Qaqaya
Trade, Environment, Climate Change and
Sustainable Development Branch
Head
Mr. Lucas Assuncao
Special Unit on Commodities
(Reports to OSG directly)
Trade Negotiations and
Commercial Diplomacy Branch
Head
Ms. Mina Mashayekhi
Trade Analysis Branch
OIC
Mr. Victor Ognitsev
Areas of Expertise and Services
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
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)
Cluster 1
Cluster 2
Cluster 4
Cluster 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
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)
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)
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)
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)
Regional outreach in 2011: 138 countries assisted
* Thematic and regional activities undertaken coverage a much wider range of countries
IMPACTStrengthened economic resilience competitive and sustainable production and export base and 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 and consumer interests