China notified the WTO Secretariat on 5 November 2012 of a request for consultations with the European Union and certain member states. It alleges that certain measures affecting the renewable energy generation sector relating to the feed-in tariff programmes of EU member states, including but (...)
The European Union (EU) donated EUR 1 million to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF) and EUR 180,000 to the Trade Facilitation Negotiation Group Fund for 2012. With these last donations, the EU’s total contribution to the WTO trust funds in favour of developing countries has (...)
WTO Chief of Staff Ms Arancha González, at the G20 Summit of Trade and Investment Promotion in Mexico City on 5 November 2012, said that “in the changing geo-politics of today with the rise of South-South trade and cooperation and the reach of value chains, there are intrinsic opportunities for (...)
اكهارت ارنست رئيس بخش گرايشهاي شغلي سازمان بينالمللي كار در يادداشت كوتاهي كه دروب سايت اين سازمان منتشر شده، تفاوت دو مفهوم «نرخ» و «نسبت» بيكاري جوانان را تشريح كرده و نشان ميدهد كه در هر حال، بيكاري در ميان جوانان كشورهاي در حال توسعه در مقايسه با اقتصادهاي توسعه يافته بيشتر است و جوانان اين كشورها از حمايتهاي اجتماعي نيز (...)
مركز بينالمللي آموزش وابسته به سازمان بينالمللي كار با همكاري سازمان بينالمللي كارفرمايان و برنامه فعاليتهاي كارفرمايي، يك دوره آموزش جامع در خصوص تشكلهاي عضويتي كسب و كار در تورين ايتاليا برگزار خواهد كرد. در اين دوره 8 روزه، تقريباً تمام مسائل و مشكلات مالي و مديريتي تشكلهاي كارفرمايي به صورت جامع بررسي و آموزش داده ميشود. به (...)
The 2012 Advanced Course on the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, held at the WTO headquarters in Geneva and jointly organized by the Agriculture and Commodities Division and the Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation of the WTO, concluded on 2 November (...)
Chinese Taipei has donated USD 100,000 (about CHF 93,300) to the WTO Trade Facilitation Needs Assessment Trust Fund. This new donation brings Chinese Taipei’s contribution to WTO trust funds up to CHF 1.56 million.
At the meeting of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) Committee on 1 November 2012, Korea reported some progress on technical discussions it hosted early in the week on expanding the current product coverage of the ITA. It said that the 17 participating members are moving towards more (...)
The Committee on Government Procurement, on 31 October 2012, approved requests by Indonesia and Montenegro, respectively, for observer status. The decisions bring to 25 governments the total number of observers to the plurilateral Government Procurement (...)
The Government of Norway has disbursed NOK 19.5 million to the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), a programme that works to contribute to poverty reduction in least-developed countries (LDCs) by helping them to integrate into the global trading (...)