GENEVA, June 17 (Xinhua) -- World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International on Friday welcomed the agreement by the World Trade Organization (WTO) members to curb harmful fisheries subsidies that drive overfishing and for which the environmental group has been working for more than two decades. ...
the CAI obliges China to engage inconsultations in order to provide additional information on subsidies that could have a negative effect on the investment interests of the EU. China isalso obliged to engage in consultations
” Zhang said and took the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies as an example, which was adopted by the 12th Ministerial Conference in June 2022, marking a major step forward for ocean sustainability by prohibiting harmful fisheries subsidies and representing...
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of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Trade Negotiations Committee in July. The WTO negotiations on fisheries subsidies have been ongoing since the issuing of Doha Ministerial in 2001 and aims, among other things, to prohibit the most harmful subsidies which contribute...
negotiators are seeking more data on the use of subsidies contributing to overcapacity and overfishing in the fishing industry as the foundation for the second stage of talks following a pared-down agreement at the 12th ministerial conference prohibiting a swath of other harmful fisheries subsidies. ...
The Patogonian toothfish, as you know of course, is now endangered, and the story recounted by Knecht of its dangerous overfishing is reflective of the challenges that regional fisheries agreements face, and of the environmentally-harmful fisheries subsidies that must now go. The book is a ...
Share World Trade Organization members will restart negotiations to rein in harmful fisheries subsidies on Sept. 1, the chair of the talks said Monday, with the goal of producing a “clean text” ahead of the 12th ministerial conference later this year. Sept. 1 will mark the start of the ...
To bring Hong Kong’s financial assistance policies in line with the agreement once it comes into force, AFCD will make appropriate adjustments to relevant fisheries subsidies and support programs. It is reported that the agreement will come into force upon acceptance by two-thirds of WTO members...
After 17 years of negotiating its ascension, Comoros has become the 165th member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as of 21 August 2024. Comoros also accepted the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, bringing the total number of acceptances to 82.