1. 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

2. Who is involved internally? 2 Ministry of Finance/Proc urement Agency Ministry of the Economy WTO Represen tation

3. 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: tajikistanmission@bluewin.ch o Mr. Alisher Nazarov, Counsellor alisher@yahoo.com o Mr. Parviz EMOMOV, Second Secretary parviz_emomov@yahoo.com 3

4. 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: mission.turkey-wto@ties.itu.intmission.turkey-wto@ties.itu.int o Mr. TEYMUROV Emin, Attaché +41 22 901 18 15 e_teymurov@mfa.gov.az e_teymurov@mfa.gov.az 4

5. Who is involved externally? 5 Accession candidate WTO Secre- tariat Parties

6. 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

7. 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