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Chairs’ texts and summary reports
This page summarizes selected chairs' drafts, documents and reports since the agriculture talks began in early 2000.
See also
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Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
i.e. food safety and animal-plant health -
Standards and Trade Development Facility
Helping developing countries meet food and health standards
Recent chairs' texts and selected summary reports
- Chair's report to the Trade Negotiations Committee, 19 November 2021
- Draft Ministerial Decision on Agriculture, 10 June 2022
- Draft Ministerial Decision on World Food Programme Food Purchases Exemption from Export Prohibitions or Restrictions, 10 June 2022
- Draft Ministerial Declaration on trade and food security, 10 June 2022
- Report by the Chair, state of play in the agriculture negotiations, 8 February 2024
- Draft text on Agriculture, 16 February 2024
Earlier selected chairs' texts and summary reports
- Chairperson David Walker’s 21 April 2011 report to the Trade Negotiations Committee
- Chairperson’s report to TNC, 22 March 2010
- Chairperson’s texts, 2008
- Chairperson’s texts, 2007
- Chairperson’s report to TNC, June-July 2006, and June/July 2006 modalities meetings
- Chairperson’s report to TNC, 28 July 2005
- Agriculture modalities ‘remain elusive’, negotiations chairperson reports to TNC, 7 July 2003
- Chairperson’s overview paper of ‘modalities’ proposals, 18 December 2002
- Work programme for the “modalities” stage, 26 March 2002
- On the 7 December 2001 formal meeting and 3–4 December 2001 informal meeting
- On the 28 September 2001 formal meeting and May, July and September 2001 informal meetings
- On the 26–27 March 2001 meeting
- Work programme for the ‘second phase’, 27 March 2001
- On the ‘first phase’, 27 March 2001 (see also members’ statements)
- On the 21–22 March 2001 meeting
- On the February 2001 meeting
- On the November 2000 meeting
- On the September 2000 meeting
- On the June 2000 meeting
- On the March 2000 meeting
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- Summary reports (minutes) of Special Sessions (i.e. negotiations) of the Agriculture Committee (Document code G/AG/NG/R* or TN/AG/R*) > search
- Chairperson抯 reports to the Trade Negotiations Committee or to the General Council (Document code G/AG/NG/R* or TN/AG/R*) > search
Agriculture negotiations documents up to March 2002 (Phases 1 and 2) use the code G/AG/NG/* (where * takes additional values). After that they come under the Doha agenda抯 trade negotiations mandate, and use TN/AG/*.
- Proposals (Document code G/AG/NG* or TN/AG* and keyword 搉egotiation? “submission” and 損roposal? > search
- Informal submissions (Document code JOB/AG/*, often restricted documents) > search
- Secretariat background papers (Document code G/AG/NG/S/* or TN/AG/S/*) > search
> See also: Secretariat background papers, detailed list - Working documents (Document code G/AG/NG/W/* or TN/AG/W/*) > search
- Statements (Document code G/AG/NG* or TN/AG* and keyword 搒tatement*? > search
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