WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/NG/10
7 February 2002
(02-0638)
Committee on Agriculture
Special Session
TENTH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
Report by the Chairperson, Ambassador Apiradi Tantraporn, to the General Council
1. The Special Session of the Committee on Agriculture, which was established by the General
Council to conduct the negotiations for continuing the reform process under Article 20 of the
Agreement on Agriculture (WT/GC/M/53, paragraph 39 refers), held its tenth meeting on
7 February 2002 on the basis of the agenda as set out in WTO/AIR/1708.
2. In line with the programme for the second phase of the negotiations in-depth work has been
carried out in informal Special Sessions on all issues and options for policy reform set out in
Members' proposals, with further elaboration as appropriate (G/AG/NG/7, dated 29 March 2001,
refers).  At the last such informal Special Session, held on 4-6 February 2002, in-depth work was
undertaken on the following trade and non-trade issues :  (i) development box;  (ii) single commodity
producers;  (iii) small island developing states;  and (iv) special and differential treatment.  Thefollowing additional topics were also discussed, or further discussed, at this informal meeting:  green
box; food aid; and tariff quota expansion.
3. The Chairperson's summary overview of the discussions at the 4-6 February informal Special
Session will be included in the Secretariat summary report on the meeting (to be issued as
G/AG/NG/R/10:  the Chairperson's summaries of the discussions at earlier second-phase informal
Special Sessions are reproduced in the Secretariat Summary Reports G/AG/NG/R/8 and 9).  The
elaborated proposals and other informal papers submitted at this and the earlier second-phase informalSpecial Sessions are listed in the attachment to this report.0
4. Following a number of statements by Members reviewing progress under the second phase of
the negotiations it was agreed that this phase of the negotiations was now concluded.
5. It was noted that the main Secretariat background notes in the areas of market access,
domestic support, and export subsidies were to be revised and updated; that a background note onauctioning tariff quotas was in preparation; and th at the Secretariat would be consulting with those
delegations which had suggested additional background notes.
6. The next formal Special Session is scheduled to be held, in conjunction with the regular
meeting of the Committee on Agriculture, in the week of 25 March 2002 and specific dates will be
advised in the convening airgram.G/AG/NG/10
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ATTACHMENT
Elaborated Proposals and Other Informal Papers1
May, July, September, December 2001 and February 2002 Informal Special Sessions2
I. Tariff Quota Administration
Australia:  Paper on Tariff Quota Administration
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka, Tanzania and Zimbabwe:  Tariff Rate Quotas
European Communities:  Views of the EC on Tariff Rate Quotas AdministrationJapan:  Questions on TRQ Administration
Switzerland:  Administration of Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQ) – The Case for Auctioning
II. Tariffs
Australia:  Paper on Tariffs
Japan:  Paper on Tariff Quota Commitment
Japan:  Questions on Tariff
Mercosur, Chile and Bolivia:  Paper on Market Access:  Ensuring the Continuity of the
Reform Process
* New Zealand:  Tariff Quota Expansion
III. Amber Box
Australia:  Paper on Amber Box Support
European Communities:  Amber Box – Views of the EC
Japan:  Questions on Amber Box
IV. Special and Differential Treatment
* African Group, Cuba, Dom. Rep., El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Pakistan and Sri Lanka:
Special and Differential Provisions
* Bolivia:   Special and Differential Treatment:  Alternative Crops
* CARICOM:  Special and Differential Treatment
* Colombia:  Special and Differential Treatment and the Substitution of Illicit Crops
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Hondur as, Indonesia, Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Venezuela and Zimbabwe:  Special andDifferential Treatment in Agriculture – "Establishing the Objectives"
* India:   Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries in the Agreement on
Agriculture
* Mauritius:  Special and Differential Treatment
                                                     
1 Copies of these informal papers are available, in the working languages, in the informal document
series:  SS(INF)AG/1 to 5.  A consolidated version of these informal papers will also be issued (asSS(INF)AG/6).
2 Submissions in connection with the 4-6 February 2002 informal Special Session are marked with an
asterisk.G/AG/NG/10
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V. Export Subsidies
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Guyana,
Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Republic of Trinidad and
Tobago, and Suriname:  Domestic Support and Export Competition
Cairns Group:  Export Subsidies
Israel:  Export Subsidies
Japan:  Elaboration of Japan's Negotiating Proposal:  Export Enhancing Measures – Export
Subsidies
Japan:  Questions on Export Subsidies
Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Venezu ela and Zimbabwe:  Export Subsidies
Switzerland:  Export Subsidies:  Modalities for Further Commitments to Reduce Export
Subsidies
VI. Export Credits
Australia:  Export Credits
European Communities:  Export Credits
Japan:  Elaboration of Japan's Negotiating Proposal:  Export Enhancing Measures – Export
Credits
Japan:  Questions on Export Credits
United States:  Export Credit Guarantee Programmes
VII. State Trading Enterprises
Japan:  Elaboration of Japan's Negotiating Proposal:  State Trading Enterprises
Japan:  Questions on State Trading EnterprisesUnited States:  Disciplines on Export State Trading Enterprises
United States:  Disciplines on Import State Trading Enterprises
VIII. Export Restrictions
Japan:  Elaboration of Japan's Negotiating Proposal:  Export Prohibitions and Restrictions
Japan:  Questions on Export RestrictionsUnited States:  Disciplines on Export Taxes
IX. Food Security
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras , Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Peru, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe:  Food Security
Japan:  Elaboration of Japan's Negotiating Proposal:  International Environment Surrounding
Agricultural Trade and Food Security
Japan:  Questions on Food Security
Peru:  Food SecurityUnited States:  Food Security
X. Food Safety
European Communities:  Food Safety
Japan:  Elaboration of Japan's Negotiating Prop osal:  Consumers' Concern on Food Safety and
QualityG/AG/NG/10
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XI. Rural Development
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
and Zimbabwe:  Rural Development
Cyprus:  Rural DevelopmentJapan:  Elaboration of Japan's Negotiating Proposal:  Importance of Agriculture in Rural
Areas (Rural Development)
Japan:  Questions on Rural Development
Norway:  Rural Development
XII. Geographical Indications
European Communities:  Geographical Indications
Japan:  Questions on Geographical Indications
Switzerland:  Geographical Indications and Agriculture
XIII. Green Box
Argentina:  Green Box Measures:  Approach for a Work Programme
* CARICOM:  Green Box Subsidies
Cyprus:  Green Box
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
and Zimbabwe:  Green Box
European Communities:  Green Box
Japan:  Elaboration of Japan's Negotiating Proposal:  Domestic Support (Green Box)
Japan:  Questions on Green Box
* Mauritius:  Green Box
Namibia:  Elaboration of  Namibia's Negotiating Proposal:  Green Box Measures
XIV. Blue Box
Cairns Group:  Blue Box
Japan:  Questions on Blue Box
XV. Special Agricultural Safeguard
Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, the Philippines and Thailand:  Special and Differential
Treatment for Developing Countries:  Transitional Instruments to Expeditiously
Countervail Subsidized Imports (SDCM)
* CARICOM:  A Special Agricultural Safeguar d Mechanism for Developing Countries and
Small Developing Econoomies
Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Senegal, Sri
Lanka and Zimbabwe:  "An Appropriate Safeguard Mechanism for Developing Countries"
Japan:  Elaboration of Japan's Negotiating Proposal:  A New Safeguard MeasureJapan:  Questions on Special Agricultural Safeguard
Namibia:  Elaboration of Namibia's Negotiating Proposal:  Special Agricultural Safeguard
Norway:  Special Safeguards
Switzerland:  WTO Agreement on Agriculture – Special SafeguardG/AG/NG/10
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XVI. Environment
Cairns Group:  Environment
Japan:  Elaboration of Japan's Negotiating Proposal:  The role of agriculture to provide
environmental benefits
Japan:  Questions on Environment
Norway:  Environment
XVII. Trade Preferences
African Group:  Trade Preferences
* CARICOM:  Trade Preferences
EC:  Tariff Preferences for Developing CountriesJapan:  Questions on Trade Preferences
Namibia:  Trade Preferences
Paraguay:  Trade Preferences
Swaziland:  Trade Preferences - A Proposal for Small Developing Countries
XVIII. Food Aid
* CARICOM:  Food Aid
Cuba, Egypt, Grenada, Mauritius, Nigeri a, Sri Lanka, and Uganda:  Food Aid
EC:  Food AidJapan:  A Possible Framework of International Food Stockholding
Japan:  Questions on Food Aid
MERCOSUR:  Food Aid
Namibia:  Food Aid:  Elaborati on of Namibia's Negotiating Proposal
Norway:  Food Aid
XIX. Consumer Information and Labelling
EC:  Mandatory Labelling for Agricultural Products
Japan:  Questions on Consumer Information and Labelling
Switzerland:  Consumer Information and LabellingSwitzerland:  Welfare of Breeding Cattle:  Example of a Non-Trade Concern
XX. Sectoral Initiatives
Canada:  Sectoral Initiatives – Contribution by Canada
XXI. Development Box
* Cuba, Dom. Rep., El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and
Zimbabwe:  The "Development Box"
* Mauritius:  Development Box
* Switzerland:   Building a Development Box in the WTO Rules on Agriculture?
XXII. Single Commodity Producers
* Mauritius: Single Commodity Exporters (SCEs)
* Zimbabwe on behalf of the African Group:  Proposal on Trade in Agricultural Commodities
and  the  Concerns of  Single Commodity Exports (SCEs)G/AG/NG/10
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XXIII. Small Island Developing States
* CARICOM:  Non Trade Concerns
* Dominica, Fiji, Jamaica, Madagascar, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, St. Lucia, St. Vincent
and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago:   Small Island Developing States
* Mauritius:  Small Island Developing States (SIDs)
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