SESSION 4
THE WAY FORWARD
Wilfrid LEGG
OECD Secretariat
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CONTEXT
 Ministerial
 Ad
Mandate 2001
Hoc Group on Sustainable
Development
 Specialist
Committees
 Comparative
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advantage of OECD
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Subsidies
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Stocktaking (2004) and on-going
Sectoral Work
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Using existing definitions
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Link with National accounts
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 Environmental
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Harmful Subsidies
Report to Ministers in 2004
Specific sectoral work
– Agricultural, Fisheries, Transport,
Energy, Industry
 Use
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the Checklist...
with a view to identify usefulness...
... with existing data
... sectoral case studies
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 Questions
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for Workshop to address
Priorities in terms of size of
subsidies?
Priorities in terms of environmental
impacts?
What is the minimum information
needed to get the picture... as an
input to provide good policy advice?
What can we learn from GE models?
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Short-term: try out the checklist for
the report for the Ministers in 2004
(work to be completed by end of 2003)
Medium-term: understanding linkages
between subsidies and Sustainable
Development
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 Sectoral work...
– To better understand the linkages of
the different elements of the
checklist.
– Peer reviews of checklist in specialist
committees.
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– Get raw data and contextual policy
information.
CO-OPERATION
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Subsidies and National
Accounts
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IGOs and NGOs
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Networking