Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the World Trade Organization’s 12th Ministerial Conference
Source – EU Commission Register
1. SUBJECT MATTER OF THE PROPOSAL
This proposal concerns the Council decision establishing the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf in the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in connection with the envisaged adoption of several decisions. This proposal covers the following areas:
- Fisheries subsidies
- Trade and health
- Measures related to intellectual property, as provided for in the TRIPS Agreement, in the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and other pandemics
- Transparency improvements in agriculture
- Domestic support in agriculture
- Public stockholding for food security purposes
- Export restrictions in agriculture, including the World Food Programme exemption from export restrictions
- Export competition in agriculture
- Market access in agriculture
- Special safeguard mechanism (SSM) in agriculture
- Review of the Understanding on Tariff Rate Quota Administration provisions of Agricultural Products (Bali TRQ Decision)
- Cotton
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Special and Differential Treatment (SDT)
- Notifications
- Trade concerns