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FTAA.ngag/com/15
December 20, 2001
Original: English-Spanish
FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON AGRICULTURE
Fifteenth Meeting
Panama, December 17 - 20, 2001
PRESS COMMUNIQUE
The Fifteenth Meeting of the Negotiating Group on
Agriculture (NGAG) took place from December 17-20, 2001 in Panama. The following
delegations attended: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana,
Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay and
Venezuela.
The NGAG agreed on the Agenda and covered all the items on it.
The next meeting of the FTAA Negotiating Group on Agriculture will be held in
Panama from February 18-22, 2002.
The Agenda of the meeting is attached.
FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON AGRICULTURE
Fifteenth Meeting
Panama, December 17 - 20, 2001
AGENDA
Monday, December 17, 2001
Morning:
1.) Approval of the Agenda.
2.) General Issues.
i. Report of the Chair of GNAM.
ii. Follow up of List of Task.
iii. Notifications and counter-notifications of Sanitary and Phytosanitary
measures.
iv. Notifications and counter-notifications of non tariff measures.
v. Identification of non-tariff measures
vi. Hemispheric Data Base.
vii. Coordination with NGAG and other FTAA entities.
Afternoon:
3.) Recommendations on Methods and Modalities for Tariff
Negotiations
Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Morning:
3.) Recommendations on Methods and Modalities for Tariff
Negotiations.
Afternoon:
4.) Section two: Market Access
Wednesday, December 19, 2001
Morning:
5.) Procedure for the Notification and Counternotification of
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
6.) Recommendations on the Treatment to be Adopted to Prevent these Measures
from becoming Unjustified Barriers to Trade within the Hemisphere.
Afternoon:
7.) Mechanisms to facilitate the full implementation of the WTO
SPS Agreement in
the Hemisphere.
8.) Section five: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.
Thursday, December 20, 2001
Morning:
7.) Mechanisms to facilitate the full implementation of the WTO SPS
Agreement in the Hemisphere.
8.) Section five: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.
Afternoon:
9.) Summary Report from the Fifteenth meeting
10.) List of Tasks
11.) Other business
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