Phase 1 (23-24 March 2000 to 26-27 March 2001)

• 7 meetings
• 45 proposals
• 4 documents described as notes, submissions, technical submissions, discussion papers
• proposals from 121 countries (counting the EU as 16, i.e. the 15 countries plus the EU as a group) or 85% of the WTO’s membership; or, including technical submissions, from 126 countries, 89% of the WTO’s membership

“Developing countries group?= sponsored some or all of
(1) G/AG/NG/W/13 (S&D and development box),
(2) G/AG/NG/W/14 (Green Box),
(3) G/AG/NG/W/37 + Corr.1 (market access)

(See ?a href="negs_bkgrnd04_groups_e.htm" class="parasmallcolourtext">alliances? for details of groupings)

Phase 2 (26-27 March 2001 to 4-7 February 2002)

Launched at the 26-27 March 2001 stock-taking meeting.

Phase 2 meetings

• 21-23 May 2001 informal meeting (tariff quota administration, tariffs, Amber Box)
• 23-25 July 2001 informal meeting (export subsidies, export credits, state trading enterprises, export taxes and restrictions, food security, food safety)
• 24-26 September 2001 informal meeting (rural development, geographical indications, Green Box, Blue Box, agricultural safeguards); 28 September formal meeting
• 3-4 December 2001 informal meeting (environment, trade preferences, food aid, consumer information and labelling, sectoral initiatives); 7 December formal meeting
• 4-6 February 2002 informal meeting: the development box, single commodity producers, special and differential treatment, small island developing countries, and “other issues? 7 February formal meeting, to end Phase 2.

The Doha mandate (from the Doha Ministerial Conference, November 2001)

Deadlines

• 31 March 2003: formulas and other “modalities?for countries?commitments
• Fifth Ministerial Conference, Mexico, 2003: countries?comprehensive draft commitments and stock taking
• 1 January 2005: Deadline for concluding negotiations, part of single undertaking

Preparations for ‘modalities’ and Cancún (26 March 2002 to September 2003)

Meetings and timetable

2002

• June meeting: export subsidies and restrictions (“intersessional?preparatory consultations 3-4 June 2002, informal 17-19 June, formal 20 June)
• Early September meeting: market access (“intersessional?preparatory consultations 29-30 July 2002, informal 2-3 September, formal 6 September)
• Late September meeting: domestic support (informal 23-25 September, formal 27 September)
• November meeting: follow-up (“intersessional? preparatory consultations 4-5 September 2002, informal 18-20 November, formal 22 November)
• 18 December: overview paper drafted by Chairperson Harbinson, based on discussions so far.

2003

• January meeting: comprehensive review based on overview paper (informal/formal 22-24 January)
• Drafting: first draft of modalities document
• February meeting: comments on first draft (informal/formal 24-28 February)
• Redrafting: second draft of modalities document
• March meeting: consideration of final text (informal/formal 25-31 March)
• 31 March: deadline
• April-June 2003 numerous technical consultations
• 26-27 June 2003 informal meeting, 1 July 2003 formal meeting
• 16-17 July 2003 informal meeting, 18 July 2003 formal meeting
• July–August 2003: preparations for the Cancún Ministerial Conference
• 10?4 September 2003: the Cancún Ministerial Conference

The July 2004 package (September 2003 to 1 August 2004)

Meetings and timetable

• March, April and June 2004 agriculture negotiations meetings
• July 2004 “July package” meetings under General Council and Trade Negotiations Committee, including a session on agriculture, 21 July
• 1 August 2004 framework agreed

The post-framework “modalities” phase (September 2004?

Meetings and timetable

• 6? October 2004. First reading: Green Box domestic support, export credit/guarantees/insurance; exporting state trading enterprises; food aid, ad valorem equivalents of specific duties; special safeguard mechanism for developing countries
• 15?9 November 2004. First reading: tariff quota administration; base for tariff quota expansion; tropical products and goods produced as substitutes for narcotics; methodology for product-specific AMS (Amber Box) caps; base period for domestic support commitments. More details: ad valorem equivalents of specific duties; exporting state trading enterprises; food aid; export credit/guarantees/insurance; Green Box domestic support. Specialist group consultation: ad valorem equivalents of specific duties
• 13?7 December 2004
• 7?1 February 2005
• 14?8 March 2005
• 13?9 April 2005
• 30 May? June 2005
• 11?5 July 2005