In the absence of any multilateral rules, there will be an avalanche of bilateral agreements.

Notifications provided to the WTO under Article 25.1 of the SCM Agreement are deemed to meet the requirement set out in paragraph 1.

My first point is that we should not waver in our continuing commitment to multilateral trade rules.

improving communication and cooperation between the Parties on measures listed in Annex XVII to this Agreement.

Anti dumping and countervailing measures

The Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation shall meet on a date and with an agenda agreed in advance by the Parties.

Trade defence instruments

determining its own rules of procedure and

The EC Party shall notify the Ghanaian Party of the receipt of a properly documented complaint before initiating any investigation.

Multilateral obligations

The Parties shall, consistent with their international obligations, pay special attention to facilitating the removal of obstacles to trade or investment in goods and services of particular relevance for climate change mitigation and in particular trade or investment in renewable energy goods and related services.

Europe's main economic partners

It is clear that we need fair, multilaterally agreed rules to oversee and regulate trade in the interests of poverty eradication.

Really, though, as our strong point is upholding multilateralism, it is reasonable that we should attack that contradiction by applying multilateral rules.

Moves to liberalise trade in goods and services now increasingly go hand in hand with the adoption of new bilateral rules that go beyond multilateral rules.

The European Union managed to ensure that negotiations on the environment start without delay, and that the link between the WTO rules and the trade rules of the multi lateral environment agreements which form part of them becomes more transparent.

European , multilateral and bilateral issues

and multilateral development banks .

The Parties agree to cooperate, in accordance with the provisions of Article 4, including by facilitating support, notably in the following areas

The Parties recognise the importance of cooperation as regards customs and trade facilitation measures for the implementation of this Agreement.

We believe that the key to sustainable development of the planet as a whole hinges on our ability to combine the opening up of the markets with the application of multilateral rules.

If we stop half way and we have got half way because we have developed the technology then we will never get the benefit of it.

It is multilateral solutions we need.

Upon that notification, the panel procedure shall be terminated.

Multilateral agreements and a world order governed by rules afford better protection to our British and European interests than unilateral instruments.

This makes them unwilling to submit to international rules (or to demand that others comply with such rules) and thus unlikely to invest in multilateral institutions, as the US did in the aftermath of World War II.

The Parties subscribe to the principles of good administrative behaviour 33 , and agree to cooperate in promoting them, including through the exchange of information and best practices.

The Parties recognise the right of each Party to determine its sustainable development policies and priorities, to establish its own levels of domestic environmental and labour protection, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant law and policies, consistently with their commitment to the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in Articles 365 and 366 of this Agreement.

The Committee on Trade and Sustainable Development shall oversee the implementation of those Chapters, including cooperative activities and the review of the impact of this Agreement on sustainable development, and address in an integrated manner any matter of common interest to the Parties in relation to the interface between economic development, social development and environmental protection.

Secondly, it calls for absolute transparency on the control of nuclear materials.

Multilateral environment agreements cannot be discarded in the name of free trade and the precautionary principle must be explicitly included in WTO rules.

cooperation in multilateral organisation on human rights

create a Special Monitoring Group to, inter alia, monitor energy flows at the relevant points of the concerned infrastructure.

Multilateral environmental and labour standards and agreements

Article 8

Relation to bilateral or multilateral agreements or arrangements between the states

The Eurosystem 's oversight standards will apply to these ACH type systems and multilateral arrangements .

We are in fact convinced that world trade and international life in general must be based on simple multilateral rules respected by everyone, applied by transparent international organisations.

After the collapse of the talks in Cancún, there were some worrying signs that the United States was going to abandon the multilateral rules and force a series of bilateral deals around the globe.

Regulate, regulate, regulate.

The rules applied to international trade in textiles and clothing and, in particular, the future of the Multifibre Agreement are at present under discussion in the framework of the GATT multilateral trade negotiations (Uruguay Round).

To us, there is no trade off between sustainable multilateral environmental disciplines and multilateral attempts at poverty alleviation.

In a recent interview, Obama emphasized America s extremely effective participation in multilateral organizations and its role in developing international rules and norms as successes of his first term foreign policy.

On multilateral issues, Obama s performance is equally unimpressive.

This dialogue takes place through various bilateral and multilateral channels .