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Exploring the Linkages between Services and Investment Disciplines in International Agreements Print
Workshop co-organized by IP 8 (Services) and IP 11 (Investment), World Trade Institute & NCCR Trade Regulation
31 May 2007, World Trade Institute, Berne


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The workshop is free and open to public attendance, subject to space limitations.  Practitioners, scholars, officials from international organizations, country represetantions and NGOs, and graduate students interested in the field of international trade and investment agreements are specially encouraged to attend and participate actively in the discussions. 

The workshop will take place on the premises of the World Trade Institute, in Berne, on May 31, 2007.


Exploring the Linkages between Services and
Investment Disciplines in International Agreements
Workshop Programme


9.00 – 9.15

Welcoming remarks by Pierre Sauvé and Philippe Gugler, WTI/NCCR-IP 8 and 11

Session 1 – Services and FDI linkages: what do we know and what’s new?

9.15 – 10.45

Sébastien Miroudot, OECD, Paris
Carlos Gimeno Verdejo, EC DG Trade, Brussels
Discussant: Ivo Kaufmann, SECO, Berne
Chair: Philippe Gugler, Université de Fribourg and  NCCR-IP11, Berne

10.45 – 11.00

Coffee break

Session 2 – Negotiating and legal implications of services and  investment agreements

11.00 - 12.30

Carsten Fink, World Bank, Geneva
Martin Molinuevo, WTI / NCCR-IP8, Berne
Elisabeth Türk, UNCTAD, Geneva
Discussant: Ramon Torrent, OBREAL and Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair: Julien Chaisse,  WTI / NCCR-IP11, Berne

12.30 – 14.30

Lunch Break

Session 3 – Exploring the scope for a multilateral framework on investment: could the GATS serve as a model?

14.30 - 16.15

James Zhan, UNCTAD, Geneva
Michael Gestrin OECD, Paris
Pierre Sauvé, LSE and WTI / NCCR-IP8, Berne
Discussant: Martin Roy, WTO, Geneva
Chair: Thomas Cottier, WTI / NCCR, Berne

16.15  - 16.30

What policy research agenda?
Martin Roy, WTO, Geneva (rapporteur)



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