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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 1 Who is involved internally? WTO Represen tation Ministry of the Economy Ministry of Finance/Proc urement Agency 2 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] 3 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] 4 Who is involved externally? Parties WTO Secretariat Accession candidate 5 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 6 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 7