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Module VI: Post-Negotiation Issues

Objective: To provide guidance to participants on the implementation and execution of international trade agreements.

Overview: This module focuses on issues that arise after negotiations have been concluded, but that must be considered by negotiators, such as implementation and execution of provisions and monitoring compliance. In particular, this module will include a panel in order to provide different perspectives in ensuring that environmental commitments in a trade context are implemented and executed.

Lecturer: Oscar Ceville

Panelists: Laura Devries Buffo, Alejandra Goyenechea, Joseph O'Donnell, Rob Wing

Topics covered in this module include:

• Implementing treaties and agreements

o Institutional changes

o Challenges and opportunities

• Administrative matters related to environmental commitments

o Access to information and publication of commitments and obligations

• Role of different stakeholders

• Facilitating compliance

o Role of complementary capacity building agenda

o Monitoring performance

Required Readings:

• Hemispheric Experiences in Administration of Free Trade Agreements, Series on Successful Hemispheric Practices, Organization of American States (2005), Report No. 1. (Spanish)

• Sáez, Sebastián, Implementing Trade Policy in Latin America: The Case of Chile and Mexico, Serie Comercio Internacional, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, (2005), No.54, pp. 21-32.

• Compliance with MEAs, Manual on Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, United Nations Environment Programme, (2006), Chapter I, pp.120-244 (selected pages).

• Implementation, Monitoring and Compliance of MEAs, Negotiating and Implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs): A Manual for NGOs, United Nations Environment Programme, (2007), Module IX, pp.125-139.

• Promoting Compliance, Principles of Environmental Enforcement, (INECE) (1992), Chapter 5.

Suggested Readings:

• Full Text of the UNEP Guidelines on Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Manual on Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, United Nations Environment Programme, (2006), Annex I, pp.661-676.

• Inter-American Strategy for the Promotion of Public Participation in Decision Making for Sustainable Development, Organization of American States (2001).
   

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