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G-IV§39 |
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The EU Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) also represents a flagship of the EU trade policy instrument to support sustainable development and good governance in developing countries, granting special tariff rate cuts to developing countries. The EU has relaxed its rules of origin in the GSP, making them simpler, easier to comply with and offering greater possibilities for sourcing based on regional and trans-regional cumulation between countries.
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WT/TPR/G/357 |
G-IV§40 |
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On 28 January 2016, the European Commission presented its first report on the implementation of the GSP. The Report presents the three arrangements of the GSP, their current beneficiaries and some basic trade statistics. It is accompanied by a detailed progress report on the EU Special Incentive Arrangement for Sustainable Development, Human Rights and Good Governance (GSP+) with regard to the 14 beneficiaries. The next biennial report on the impact of GSP is due in December 2017.
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WT/TPR/G/357 |
G-IV§41 |
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2017 |
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The EU and its Member States collectively drive global ‘Aid for trade’ efforts as the world's largest donor accounting for more than a third of global support, to the current tune of €12 billion per year. As a component of Official Development Assistance, EU Aid for Trade is programmed according to beneficiary needs, but with clear priorities, including support for implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement and an ongoing commitment to prioritize the Least Developed Countries. Moreover, in its recent Communication on a New European Consensus on Development the EU committed itself to further coordinate development cooperation programmes (such as Aid for Trade) with trade policy tools to support sustainable development, including inclusive growth.
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WT/TPR/G/357 |
G-IV§49 |
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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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WT/TPR/G/357 |
G-IV§50 |
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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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WT/TPR/G/357 |
G-IV§64 |
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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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WT/TPR/G/357 |
G-IV§65 |
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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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G-IV§68 |
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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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WT/TPR/G/357 |
G-IV§72 |
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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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