Division on International Trade in Goods
and Services, and Commodities
Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the
Programme Budget, 62nd session
(Technical Cooperation)
Guillermo Valles
Director, DITC, UNCTAD
September 2012
DITC Structure
Director
Mr. Guillermo Valles
Chief, Office of the Director
Mr. Bonapas Onguglo
Competition and
Consumer
Protection Branch
Trade Analysis
Branch
OIC
Head
Mr. Hassan Qaqaya
Mr. Victor
Ognitsev
Trade, Environment,
Climate Change and
Sustainable
Development Branch
Head
Mr. Lucas Assuncao
Trade
Negotiations and
Commercial
Diplomacy Branch
Head
Ms. Mina
Mashayekhi
Special Unit on
Commodities
(Reports to OSG
directly)
Areas of Expertise and Services
Cluster 1
 Trade policy formulation
 Trade preferences (GSP)
 Trade negotiations
in WTO and in RTAs
 WTO accession
 GSTP
 Services, trade and
development
Cluster 2
 New and dynamic sectors
of world trade
 Creative industries
 Trade data bases e.g.
TRAINS/WITS
 NTMs
Cluster 4
 Institutional and capacity
building on competition law;
COMPAL; Africomp,
Voluntary Peer Reviews
Cluster 5
 Trade and development
aspects of Climate Change
 Sustainable trade and
production (Biotrade,
Biofuels,Organic agriculture)
DITC Technical Cooperation
Activities 2011
Country-specific activities
Regional activities
GLOBAL T.C.
ACTIVITIES 2011
Trade policy, trade
commercial diplomacy
negotiations
and
 ACP Strategic Brainstorming on Non-Tariff Trade Barriers (3 February
2011, Geneva)
 African countries, LDCs and SVES  tailored assistance on WTO
Agreements and DDA (Geneva)
 China Services Congress (24-30 May 2011, China)
 Commonwealth Secretariat's Workshop on Regional Trade Integration in
Pacific (26 September, UK)
 Developing countries  preparatory events for the WTO 8th Ministerial
Conference (November-December 2011)
 Task Force on Services Statistics, including its meeting 10 November,
2011 in France
GLOBAL T.C.
ACTIVITIES 2011
Competition Policy and Consumer Protection
•1st International Forum on Consumer Protection (March 2011, Ecuador)
•5th edition of the Ibero-american Forum of Consumer Protection Agency
(September 2011)
•Workshop on the "Role of competition policy during times of crisis" (21-23
September 2011, Argentina)
GLOBAL T.C. ACTIVITIES 2011
Trade, environment & development Rio + 20 preparatory events and “green economy” issues.
• Roundtable: Making the transition to a green economy fair and equitable (23 June, 2011, Geneva)
• Green Growth and Development Workshop - OECD (28 June 2011, France)
• Joint OECD Working Party on Trade and Environment (16 December 2011, France)
• Joint UNCTAD - Energy Pact Foundation Conference (29 November - 1 December 2011, Geneva)
• South Centre and UNDP Workshop on Trade, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable
Development Policy Linkage Issues (15-16 November, Geneva)
• UNEP/Ville de Genève conference (18 October 2011, Geneva
UNCSD events and the conference itself:
•
2nd Preparatory Committee Meeting UNCSD (7-8 March, USA)
•
Chile  Regional Preparatory Meeting for Latin America and the
Caribbean (UNCSD)
•
Regional Preparatory Meeting for ECE Region (1-2 December
2011, Switzerland)
•
2nd Inter-sessional Meeting of UNCSD (15-16 December 2011,
USA)
•
WTO Public Forum on "Preparing for Rio 2012: Trade opportunities
and challenges in a green economy" (Geneva, 21 September 2011)
GLOBAL T.C. ACTIVITIES 2011
Trade, environment & development Organic Agriculture.
•
1st European Commission-African Union Workshop on African organic
agriculture (July 2011, Belgium)
• Discussion by expert group of IFOAM and FoodPlus on two DITC studies:
"Organic Plus" and "GlobalGAP Interpretative Guidelines" (8 June, 2011,
Germany)
• GOMA Working Group for Cooperation on Organic Labeling and Trade for Asia
(September 2011, South Korea)
GLOBAL T.C. ACTIVITIES 2011
Trade, environment & development Other technical cooperation activities.
• International Expert Workshop in support of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert
Group on Indicators for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 (20-24
June, 2011, UK)
• International Sustainable Foods Summit (23-24 June 2011, Netherlands)
• Seminar on the compatibility of the EU sustainability criteria for Biofuels with
WTO rules (30 November, 2011, Belgium)
• Risoe Energy Conference (10-12 May, 2011, Denmark)
• Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (15 June 2011, Switzerland)
• CITES Asian Snake Trade Workshop (11-14 April 2011, China)
• UNFCCC - COP17 (28 November - 9 December 2011, South Africa)
185 Technical Cooperation Outputs
in 2010-2011
31 Training
Services
17%
78 Advisory
Services
/Missions
42%
76
Seminars/
Workshops
41%
Regional outreach in 2011: 138 countries assisted
Latin America
and Caribbean
27%
Economies in
transition
8%
Africa
37%
Asia
28%
* Thematic and regional activities undertaken coverage a much wider range of countries
IMPACT
Strengthened economic resilience competitive
and sustainable production and export base and
more specific integration of development goals
Improved market access and entry conditions for
exports of developing countries
Better consideration and integration of
development dimension into multilateral and
regional trade negotiations and agreements
Effective participation in multilateral trading
system of some 20 countries in WTO accession
Enhanced capacities to address anti-competitive
practices and consumer interests
THANK YOU