Events
Report
Jim Grieshaber-Otto, Independent Trade Policy Consultant at Cedar Isle
Research, BC, Canada: World
Trade Organization and alcohol policy.
(Power Point presentation)
Conclusions:
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- Countries
should not ask commitments from developing countries regarding alcohol.
- Countries should exclude alcohol when making commitments. (e.g. Canada and Sweden do it, Poland excluded alcohol and advertising) - Existing commitments on alcohol should be revised. (Switzerland has only excluded alcohol advertising) - The procedure of negociations should be revised. So far it is secret policy and very undemocratic, as the strong lobby groups can influence the process without any control from the people. - The ministry of health of each country should intervene at its ministry of trade in this matter. - Time is running out. The negociations of this round end this year |
More informations:
Also, more publications on various aspects of the
impact of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) can be
found at the 'publications' area of the website of the Canadian Centre
for Policy Alternatives:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/pub1.html
(veraltet)
Here is a collection of articles on WTO and public health/services on
the above Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://web.archive.org/web/20041128114048/http://www.are-regions-europe.org/COMMUN/A214b8GATSOtherSectors.html
WTO-Website: http://www.wto.org/
