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
Who is involved internally? 2 Ministry of Finance/Proc urement Agency Ministry of the Economy WTO Represen tation
Tajikistan o Permanent Mission of the Republic of Tajikistan to the United Nations Office at Geneva Chemin William Barbey Chambésy Tel: Telefax: o Mr. Alisher Nazarov, Counsellor o Mr. Parviz EMOMOV, Second Secretary 3
Turkey o Permanent Mission of Turkey to the WTO ICC Route de Pré-Bois Geneva 15 Tel: Telefax: o Mr. TEYMUROV Emin, Attaché
Who is involved externally? 5 Accession candidate WTO Secre- tariat Parties
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 Your first offer is key! Start of accession process before/after reforms? Speed of accession process Determine coverage of state-owned enterprises Is your procurement system centralized or not? Coverage at all entity levels Definition plus list, or List only? Approaches to listing No discrimination best-case scenario May be necessary for reciprocity reasons No discrimination between Parties No need to repeat those excluded in GPA text Limit other exceptions Limit exceptions 7