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EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION WITH
THE WTO SECRETARIAT & PARTIES
Anna Caroline Müller
Legal Affairs Officer, WTO Secretariat
EBRD Capacity Building Session
for Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkey
London, UK
9-10 December 2014
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Who is involved internally?
WTO
Represen
tation
Ministry
of the
Economy
Ministry of
Finance/Proc
urement
Agency
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Tajikistan
o Permanent Mission of the Republic of Tajikistan to the United Nations
Office at Geneva
Chemin William Barbey 37
1292 Chambésy
Tel: 022 734 11 40
Telefax: 022 734 11 58
E-mail: [email protected]
o Mr. Alisher Nazarov, Counsellor
[email protected]
o Mr. Parviz EMOMOV, Second Secretary
[email protected]
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Turkey
o Permanent Mission of Turkey to the WTO
ICC
Route de Pré-Bois 20
1215 Geneva 15
Tel: 022 791 70 10
Telefax: 022 791 70 20
E-mail: [email protected]
o Mr. TEYMUROV Emin, Attaché
+41 22 901 18 15
[email protected]
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Who is involved externally?
Parties
WTO
Secretariat
Accession
candidate
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WTO Secretariat team:
Mr Robert
ANDERSON
Counsellor,
Team Leader
for
government
procurement
and
competition
policy
Mr Kwadwo
OSEI-LAH
Counsellor
Ms Anna
Caroline
MÜLLER
Legal Affairs
Officer
Mr Philippe
PELLETIER
Legal Affairs
Officer
Mr Jianning
CHEN
Legal Affairs
Officer
Ms Audrey
FRANCHET
Secretary
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Different issues of importance
Speed of accession
process
• Your first offer is key!
• Start of accession process before/after reforms?
Coverage at all entity
levels
• Determine coverage of state-owned enterprises
• Is your procurement system centralized or not?
Approaches to listing
• Definition plus list, or
• List only?
No discrimination
between Parties
Limit exceptions
• No discrimination best-case scenario
• May be necessary for reciprocity reasons
• No need to repeat those excluded in GPA text
• Limit other exceptions
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