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The EU considers that private sustainability schemes can be beneficial for sustainable development, providing information to consumers who can alter their buying habits according to their principles. For this reason, the EU is working to better promote fair and ethical trade schemes with a view to raising awareness on both the supply and the demand side and developing, by this means, more sustainable trade opportunities for small producers in third countries.
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Fair and ethical trade schemes are promoted by implementing recently concluded free trade agreements and through the network of EU delegations. The EU has also launched a new project with the International Trade Centre on fair and ethical trade , involving a study of the demand for certified products in the EU and the design of an ’EU City for Fair and Ethical Trade’ award. This project will complement past work done with the International Trade Centre to promote small businesses’ participation in private sustainability assurance schemes.
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The EU seeks to promote economic growth and job creation by pursuing a progressive trade and investment agenda as well as advocating sustainable development in the multilateral context.
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The EU is actively engaged in advancing multilateral post-Nairobi negotiations with a view to preparing outcomes for the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC11). In this regard, the EU is contributing and often leading discussions on numerous topics including fisheries subsidies, (...)
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First, the EU sees the WTO as playing a central role in developing and enforcing the rules of global trade - from intellectual property to customs, from digital trade to good regulatory practices – that will also reinforce the principle of sustainable development.
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The EU is dedicated to making progress on disciplining fisheries subsidies in the WTO. The EU believes that fisheries subsidies, like other types of subsidies, can only effectively be addressed through a multilateral agreement covering all WTO Members. The fact that the sustainability of global fisheries is at stake further reinforces the need for multilateral action.
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development agreed by the global community and notably the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14.6 sets out the objective to prohibit by 2020 certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, to eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and to refrain from introducing new such subsidies. SDG 14.6 further recognizes that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the WTO fisheries subsidies negotiation.
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Thus, there is a clear call for a multilateral process on fisheries subsidies to deliver on SDG 14.6. For this reason in October 2016 the EU tabled a concrete textual proposal to ban certain capacity-enhancing subsidies and subsidies linked to IUU fishing. The proposal also provides for enhanced transparency and notification requirements and foresees special and differential treatment that would allow developing and least developed countries to derogate from such a ban under certain conditions linked to a sustainable management of the relevant fisheries.
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The EU has played a leading role in the negotiations for an Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA). The aim of an EGA is to (i) eliminate tariffs on a broad range of environmental goods used, among other things, for renewable energy generation, waste management, water treatment and air pollution control, and (ii) address non-tariff issues in the sector and services linked to environmental goods though a future work programme.
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Pollution
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The EU will continue working with all WTO members involved to bridge the gaps in the negotiations and reach an agreement as soon as possible, considering the importance of an EGA to contribute to address climate change and environmental changes.
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