9:00-9:30

Badge pickup at WTO Welcome Pavillion

9:30?0:00

Opening Remarks

• Maika Oshikawa, WTO

10:00 ?10:45

Seminar Overview

ITTC, Acc. Division, WTO

11:00?2:30

WTO Legal Framework

Overview and Core Disciplines

• János Volkai, WTO
  Presentation

14:00?5:45

Accession process

Process Core documents

• Dimitar Bratanov, WTO
  Presentation

16:00?7:30

Accession process

Acquis Negotiations on rules

• Dimitar Bratanov, WTO
  Presentation

18:00?0:00

Welcome reception

Gallery (new building)

9:00 -10:00

Informal Group of Acceding Governments
Room E

10:00?0:45

Review exercise ?Kahoot!

11:00?2:30

Trade in Agriculture
Room E

• Diwakar Dixit, WTO
  Presentation

14:00?5:45

SPS

• Hanna Vitikkala, WTO
  Presentation

Commentator:

• Aray Kassabekova, Kazakhstan

16:00?7:30

WTO Accession and Trade Policy Uncertainty

• Adam Jakubik, WTO
  Presentation

9:00-9:30

Review exercise ?Kahoot!

9:30?0:45

Framework for Making & Enforcing Economic Policies

• Anna Varyanik, WTO
  Presentation

11:00?2:30

TBT

• Erik Wijkström, WTO
  Presentation

Commentator:

• Aray Kassabekova, Kazakhstan

14:00?5:45

Trade Facilitation & Transit

• Nora Neufeld, WTO
  Presentation

Commentator:

• Muzammil Shinwari, Afghanistan

16:30 ?18:00

Panel session
Room D

20th Anniversary of Latvia's Accession to the WTO

18:00?0:00

Evening reception hosted by the Government of Latvia

Atrium (CWR)

9:00-9:30

Review exercise ?Kahoot!

9:30?0:45

TRIMs

• Jorge Castro, WTO
  Presentation

11:00?2:30

Industrial Subsidies & Free Zones

• Seref Gokay, WTO
  11:00 ?12:00
  Presentation

Presentation on free zones

• Michael Daly, Consultant
  12:00 ?13:00
  Presentation

14:00?5:45

Roundtable Discussion

Regional Trade Agreements
Room E

Speakers:

• Rohini Acharya, TPR Division
  Presentation
• Geremew Ayalew, Ethiopia
• Dmitri Fomchenko, Belarus

16:00?7:30

Inaugural Session

Accessions Negotiators Network
Room E

Chair:

• Saleh Al-Husseini, Saudi Arabia

Speakers:

• Representatives of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, China, Latvia and Bulgaria

9:00-9:30

Review exercise ?Kahoot!

9:30?0:45

TRIPS
Room E

• Wolf Meier-Ewert, WTO
  Presentation

11:00?2:30

Technical Assistance and Capacity Building in Acceding Governments
Room E

Moderator:

• Juneyoung Lee, WTO

Speakers:

• Pierre Sauv? World Bank
• Simon Padilla, STDF
  Presentation
• Jonathan Werner, EIF
  Presentation

14:00?5:45

WTO Accession and the Role of the Business Community

Speaker:

• Viktoria Tuomisto, ITC
  Presentation

16:00?7:30

Challenges and Opportunities for LDCs in Accession Negotiations

Speaker:

• Muzammil Shinwari, Afghanistan

Commentator:

• Nagib Hamim, Yemen

9:00?:30

Review exercise ?Kahoot!

9:30?1:00

Treaty Interpretation and Accession Commitments in the WTO Legal Framework

• Dimitar Bratanov, WTO
  Presentation

11:00?2:00

Accession Commitments in WTO Dispute Settlement

• Andrei Suse, WTO
  Presentation

12:00?2:30

Remarks

• DDG Alan Wm. Wolff, WTO News item

14:00?5:45

Government Procurement

• Philippe Pelletier, WTO
  Presentation

16:00?7:30

Bilateral Meetings with Technical Experts/WTO Secretariat

9:00?:30

Review exercise ?Kahoot!

9:30?1:00

Import Regulation

Customs fees and other duties and charges

• Darlan Marti, WTO

11:15?2:30

Import Regulation

Customs valuation (and rules of origin)

• Dolores Halloran, WTO
  Presentation

Lunch

14:00?5:45

Transparency

• Anna Varyanik, WTO
  Presentation

16:00?7:30

Presentation by WTO Article XII Group

Speaker:

• Carlos Barletta, Panama

9:00?:30

Review exercise ?Kahoot!

9:30?1:00

Quantitative Restrictions

Import/export quotas, licensing

• Roy Santana, WTO
  Presentation

11:15?2:30

Import Regulation

Internal taxation

• Roy Santana, WTO
  Presentation

Lunch

14:00?5:45

Economic Policies

Privatization, State trading, pricing and competition policy

Speaker:

• Neil Beck, USTR

Commentator:

• Carlos Gimeno, EC

16:00?7:30

Internal Coordination Processes in the EU and the US

Speakers:

• Neil Beck, USTR
• Carlos Gimeno, EC

9:00?:30

Review exercise ?Kahoot!

9:30?1:00

Trade in Services

• Markus Jelitto, WTO
  Presentation

11:15?2:30

Investment and Trade in Services

Speaker:

• Pierre Sauv? World Bank
  Presentation

14:00?5:45

Trading Rights

Speaker:

• Carlos Gimeno, EC
  Presentation

Commentators:

• Neil Beck, USTR
• Aray Kassabekova, Kazakhstan

16:00?7:30

WTO Activities in the lead-up to MC12
Room F

• Amb. Jos?Luís Cancela Gómez, Uruguay
  Presentation
• Amb. Juan Carlos González, Colombia
  Presentation
• Mr. Katsuro Nagai, Japan

10:00 ?13:00

11th Meeting of the Working Party on the Accession of Belarus
Room W

14:00?5:45

Best practices in the accession Q&A process

• Cecilia Klein, consultant

Commentator:

• Hamdo Tinjak, Chief Negotiator, Bosnia & Herzegovina

15:45?6:00

Evaluation & Feedback

Certificates & Closing