PACER - October 2018

Agenda

Participants

Transparency in the Pacer Plus Agreement

4 requirements

1 Contact points and Enquiry points

2 Publication of regulations, procedures and tariffs

3 Notification of any change

4 Advanced publication of new norm and opportunity to comment

Pacer Plus Agreement with transparency provisions highlighted

Transparency provisions per chapter & per requirement

Examples of transparency provisions

Good practices

For Publication of regulations & procedures

For Publication of tariffs

For Advanced publication of new norms

To Avoid duplicated information

Embedding of Trade Portal data on other national sites

See more good practices here.

Presentations

Trade & Gender
Legislations

Socio-economic profiles in the PICS & women’s role in society and the economy

PACER Plus transparency provisions and links to gender equality

Mainstreaming Gender in Trade Policy

Trade as a tool for the economic empowerment of women

Introduction to transparency obligations on regulations under PACER+ and gap analysis

What do the Agreement's transparrency obligations mean for my work? Part 1

What do the Agreement's transparrency obligations mean for my work? Part 2

Time of compliance table 2 pager final

Proposed transparency tools

The following tools are made available to PACER Plus’ signatories to help them comply with transparency requirements :

National Trade Portals to publish national procedures, regulations and tariffs, to send notifications and facilitate communications among contact points.
A regional Trade Portal that gives access to all national Trade Portals and monitors transparency progress in each country.

Operating those systems doesn’t require any IT skills. Information can be published and updated easily, just as on facebook pages. UNCTAD will train national teams in collecting, registering, reviewing and publishing data, and in sending notifications through the Trade Portals.

Trade Portals do not overlap with other national sites. The information registered on the Trade Portals can be instantly shared with any site, through “embedding”.