The project aims to explore the agenda governed by the CTE, in which our country proves to have strong interests, mainly including the relations between WTO rules and trade obligations set out in MEAs, labeling for environmental purposes, environmental products and services. The task then will cover the analysis of positions of respective members with a view to helping consolidate our position that may best serve the interests of our country. The consistency between WTO rules and our national environmental policy and regulations will be also examined. The primary performance and results of this project include: conclusion of fundamental study on CTE agenda, especially focusing on legal perspective; presence at two CTE meetings held on July and October 2003 respectively in which a position paper had been submitted, titled “The Relationship between WTO Rules and Specific Trade Obligations set out in MEAs”; additionally, in such a forum, we assisted officials to conduct formal or informal negotiations on a bilateral basis. On October, we held an expert meeting aiming to examine the present function and performance of governmental unit responsible for trade and environment tasks and then made some useful suggestions over the improvement of future work, including capacity building, reasonable allocation of funding and resources, and personnel training.

WTO,MEAs,Environmental Goods and Services