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ENVIRONMENT: MULTILATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS

Cooperation with Multilateral Environmental Agreements

There are over 250 multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) dealing with various environmental issues. The WTO Secretariat cooperates with a number of implementing bodies for MEAs, following their work and providing information on WTO rules and mechanisms.  

As part of this, and in response to Members' requests, the Secretariat has also in the past compiled trade-related information in a WTO MEA matrix.

The CTE also regularly receives trade-relevant information and updates from MEAs.

About 15 of these MEAs include provisions to control trade in order to prevent damage to the environment:

As part of its cooperation with implementing bodies of the MEAs, and in response to requests from Members, the Secretariat has prepared, in the past, a matrix providing background information on selected MEAs. The matrix included the following information: brief description of the MEA; Trade-related measures of the MEA, notably requirements or restrictions on imported or exported products; supportive measures, such as technology transfer, and financial or technical assistance under the provisions of the MEA; non-compliance mechanism set out in the MEA; dispute settlement mechanisms in the MEA; provisions relating to non-parties to the MEA, as well as an Annex, containing a comparative table of WTO and MEA membership. Past copies of the matrix are available for download here.

CTE Work Programme

The Marrakech Ministerial Decision on Trade and Environment sets out the Work Programme of the Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE). Items 1 and 5 cover the relationship between the rules of the multilateral trading system and the trade measures contained in MEAs, and between their dispute settlement mechanisms.

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Disclaimer

The Matrix of MEA trade measures has been prepared under the WTO Secretariat's own responsibility and is without prejudice to the positions of Members or to their rights and obligations under the WTO.