1.
2011
CALENDAR OF TRADE-RELATED MEETINGS
FINAL QUARTER
= New Item = Negotiations = Urgent
Nd = No date agreed Np = No place determined M = Ministerial
OCTOBER
Date Event Venue
1‐3 WIPO Meeting of Heads of Caribbean Intellectual Geneva
Property Organizations
1‐3 Mission Promoting Prospects for the Negotiations of Brussels
Mutual Recognition Agreements (MRAs) of Professional London
Qualifications for Engineers between CARIFORUM and Paris
the European Union
3‐6 ACP Parliamentary Assembly Brussels
10 Regional Stakeholder Conference on the Caribbean Dominica
Component of the Intra‐Caribbean component of the
Intra‐ACP/European Union (EU) 10th European
Development Fund (EDF) Agriculture Policy Programme
13 ACP Special Committee of Ambassadors Meeting Brussels
14 Joint ACP‐EC Technical Committee on sugar Brussels
9‐15 Caribbean Week of Agriculture Dominica
th
15 38 Special Meeting of the Council on Trade and Dominica
Economic Development (COTED) (Agriculture)
11‐12 UWI Regional Seminar on the Management of Trinidad
Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Clusters
19‐21 CARICOM Procurement Task Force Dominican Republic
rd
24 Reconvening of 3 Round of Negotiations for a Video Conference
CARICOM‐Canada Trade and Development Agreement
25 Commonwealth and Developing Small States Foreign Australia M
Ministers Meeting
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2.
OCTOBER
Date Event Venue
25 ACP Special Committee of Ambassadors Meeting Brussels
25 CARICOM Australia Ministerial Meeting (on the Australia M
margins of CHOGM)
26‐27 Pre‐CHOGM Commonwealth Foreign Ministers Australia M
Meeting
26‐27 WTO General Council Geneva M
28‐30 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Australia M
(CHOGM)
31 Meeting of the Inter‐Sessional Committee of the Video Conference
Council on Trade and Economic Development (COTED)
to consider the Draft Rules of Procedure of the COTED
NOVEMBER
Date Event Venue
1 WTO Meeting of the Working Party on GATS Rules Geneva
2 WTO Meeting of the Committee on Specific Geneva
Commitments (followed by Informal meeting)
2‐3 CARICOM‐Canada Trade Development Forum Canada
3 WTO Meeting of the Council for Trade in Services Geneva
3 ACP Bureau of Committee of Ambassadors Meeting Brussels
3 WTO Meeting of the Working Group on Trade and Geneva
Transfer of Technology
4 WTO Meeting of the Working Party on Domestic Geneva
Regulation
7 WTO Meeting of the Council for Trade in Goods Geneva
7‐‐9 ACP Committee of Ambassadors Meeting Brussels
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3.
NOVEMBER
Date Event Venue
9‐10 WTO Meeting of the Committee on Regional Trade Geneva
Agreements
9 WTO Meeting of the Negotiating Group on Trade Geneva
Facilitation (followed by Informal meeting)
10‐11 WTO Meeting of the Committee on Technical Barriers Geneva
to Trade
10 WTO Meeting of the Committee on Trade and Geneva
Development – Session on Aid for Trade
11 WTO Meeting of the Committee on Trade in Civil Geneva
Aircraft
14 WTO Meeting of the Committee on Trade and Geneva
Development
14‐18 33rd Regular Meeting of the Council for Trade and Guyana
Development (COTED)
14 WTO Meeting of the Committee on Trade and Geneva
Environment
16‐23 ACP Parliamentary Assembly/ ACP‐EU JPA Meeting Brussels
17‐18 WTO Meeting of the Committee on Agriculture Geneva
18 WTO Meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body Geneva
th
24‐26 26 Meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Guyana M
Statisticians
DECEMBER
Date Event Venue
1‐2 WTO General Council Geneva M
8 4th CARICOM‐Cuba Summit Trinidad
th
15‐17 WTO 8 Ministerial Conference (MC8) Geneva
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4.
DECEMBER
Date Event Venue
19 WTO Meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body Geneva
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