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SESSION 4THE WAY FORWARD
Wilfrid LEGG OECD Secretariat
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CONTEXT

• Ministerial Mandate 2001
• Ad Hoc Group on SustainableDevelopment
• Specialist Committees
• Comparative advantage of OECD

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ROLE FOR THE OECD

• Subsidies
• Stocktaking (2004) and on-going Sectoral Work
• Using existing definitions
• Link with National accounts

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ROLE FOR THE OECD

• Environmental Harmful Subsidies
• Report to Ministers in 2004
• Specific sectoral work
• Agricultural, Fisheries, Transport, Energy,
  Industry
• Use the Checklist...
• with a view to identify usefulness...
• ... with existing data
• ... sectoral case studies

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ROLE FOR THE OECD

• Questions for Workshop to address
• Priorities in terms of size of subsidies?
• Priorities in terms of environmental impacts?
• What is the minimum information needed to get the
  picture... as an input to provide good policy
  advice?
• What can we learn from GE models?

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ROLE FOR THE OECD

• Short-term try out the checklist for the report
  for the Ministers in 2004 (work to be completed
  by end of 2003)
• Medium-term understanding linkages between
  subsidies and Sustainable Development

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ROLE FOR THE OECD

• Sectoral work...
• To better understand the linkages of the
  different elements of the checklist.
• Peer reviews of checklist in specialist
  committees.
• Get raw data and contextual policy information.

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CO-OPERATION

• Subsidies and National Accounts
• IGOs and NGOs
• Networking