Download APEC 2009 Tasking Statement Work Program Actions Required

APEC 2009 Tasking Statement
Work Program
Actions Required
Addressing the Crisis, Positioning for Recovery
Responsibility
Timeline
Leaders pledged to
· Work together to ensure that macroeconomic, regulatory and
Economies
strengthen the momentum
structural policies are collectively consistent with more sustainable and
SOM/SFOM EC CTI
towards inclusive, sustainable
balanced trajectories of growth. · Promote current account
Economies
and balanced global
sustainability and open trade and investment to advance global
SFOM/SOM
economic growth and
prosperity and growth sustainability. · Undertake macro prudential and
Economies
support the goals of the G20
regulatory policies to help prevent credit and asset price cycles from
SOM/SFOM
Framework for Strong,
becoming forces of destabilization. · Promote development and
Economies
Sustainable and Balanced
poverty reduction as part of the rebalancing of global growth. ·
SFOM/SOM
Growth.
Facilitate job creation by retraining, skills upgrading and mobility of
Economies
workers so as to secure jobs, especially in new and growing industries. ·
SOM/SFOM HRDWG
Report back to Leaders on efforts to achieve stronger, more balanced
SFOM/SOM
and sustained growth in the Asia-Pacific region. · Work with the
Economies
International Financial Institutions and Multilateral Development Banks
SFOM/SOM/SCE/CTI
in identifying synergies to facilitate the implementation of necessary
and relevant fora
AELM 2010
2010
reforms in infrastructure development, agriculture/food management,
social security, education and workforce training, and regulatory
frameworks.
Work Program
Actions Required
Responsibility
Timeline
·
Make further progress on existing inclusive growth work streams,
Economies SOM
AMM 2010
·
flesh out and prioritise the key issues and identify existing gaps of
SFOM
2010
the inclusive growth agenda for APEC, develop a multi-year capacity
CTI/EC/SCE/HRDWG/
building programme on inclusive growth, and report on the
SMEWG GFPN
progress at AMM in 2010. Sustain efforts to strengthen capabilities,
Economies
continue the implementation of necessary policies and measures to
SFOM/SOM
support trade finance and to continue collaboration with Finance
CTI/EC/SCE/SMEWG
counterparts.
Multilateral Trading System
Leaders pledged support to
·
Ensure an ambitious and balanced conclusion to the Doha
Economies Economies
ensure the conclusion of the
·
Development Agenda (DDA) based on the progress achieved
APEC Geneva Caucus
WTO Doha negotiations in
·
to-date, including with regard to modalities. Exercise pragmatism
Trade Ministers
2010
2010 2010
and all possible flexibility and utilise all possible avenues in order to
accelerate the pace of negotiations to secure convergence on a final
package. Work closely on what needs to be done to bring the DDA
to a successful conclusion and assess the situation no later than in
early 2010.
Resisting Protectionism
·
Regularly review our adherence to the commitment to reject all
·
forms of protectionism, keep markets open and refrain from raising
new barriers to investment or to trade in goods and services to the
end of 2010, and beyond if necessary. Continue to exercise
maximum restraint in implementing measures that may be
considered to be WTO consistent if they have a significant
protectionist effect and promptly rectify such measures where
implemented.
Economies Economies
Ongoing
Ongoing
Reviewing Commitments to
·
Open Markets
Continue to review trade, fiscal and monetary measures undertaken
APEC Secretariat
by APEC economies in close cooperation with the WTO, ABAC and
Economies
2010
other relevant bodies.
Work Program
Supporting the WTO
·
Actions Required
Responsibility
Timeline
Step up cooperation with the WTO on specific areas, including
Economies APEC
AMM 2010
greater collaboration in the Aid for Trade agenda and report to
Secretariat
Ministers on progress in these cooperative efforts.
Regional Economic
Integration
Leaders pledged to
·
Report to Leaders in 2010 with a meaningful assessment of the
Relevant economies
AELM 2010
accelerate work to
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industrialised and other participating APEC economies’ achievement
SOM SOM CTI and
AMM 2010
strengthen regional
·
of the Bogor Goals. Continue to explore building blocks to achieve a
sub-fora SOM CTI/EC
2010 2010
economic integration in the
·
Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP). Provide a progress
and sub-fora SCE SOM
update to Leaders on the outcomes of the exploration of a range of
CTI and sub-fora
Asia-Pacific
possible pathways to achieve FTAAP. Accelerate work to strengthen
REI in the Asia-Pacific, taking a comprehensive approach that
focuses APEC’s work on trade liberalisation “at the
border”;improving the business environment “behind the
border”and enhancing supply chain connectivity “across the
border”. Intensify work on initiatives to promote greater
convergences among economies in key areas of APEC’s REI agenda,
including in services, the digital economy, investment, trade
facilitation, rules of origin and standards/technical barriers to trade.
REI “At the Border”
Making Rules of Origin More
·
Business Friendly
Continue with ongoing work and provide a progress update at MRT
Economies SOM CTI
2010.
and subfora
Facilitating Trade in Products
·
Continue work under the APEC Services Initiative (ASI), including the
CTI and subfora
and Services
·
APEC Principles for Cross-Border Trade in Services and the Services
HRDWG/TEL/EWG/
Action Plan to promote services trade. Continue work to promote
TPTWG/TWG CTI and
the digital economy.
subfora
Actions Required
Responsibility
Work Program
MRT 2010
2010 2010
Timeline
REI “Behind the Border”
Build on the Leaders’
·
Re-energise and build on APEC’s ongoing efforts on structural
EC ABAC SFOM SOM
Agenda to Implement
·
reform, building on the Leaders’ Agenda to Implement Structural
EC
Structural Reform (LAISR)
Reform towards 2010 (LAISR 2010) by undertaking structural
adjustments that will enhance opportunities for all segments of
economies to benefit from growth and increase market efficiencies.
AMM 2010
Conduct a stock-take of achievements under the LAISR Forward
Work Programme in 2010 and strategise the next phase of the
LAISR, including in the context of supporting APEC’s new growth
strategies.
Ease of Doing Business
·
Work towards achieving an APEC-wide improvement of 25 percent
Economies SOM EC
·
in five key areas of doing business by 2015: Starting a Business,
Economies SOM EC
Getting Credit, Enforcing Contracts, Trading Across Borders and
Dealing with Permits, and a 5 percent improvement by 2011.
Continue concerted efforts through the Ease of Doing Business
Action Plan to make it cheaper, faster and easier to do business in
2011 2015
the Asia-Pacific.
Facilitating Investment
·
Finalize work to identify a set of key performance indicators and
PSU CTI and IEG
·
establish a methodology to measure progress in the
Economies CTI and
implementation of APEC’s Investment Facilitation Action Plan.
IEG
Complete implementation of the IFAP.
Strengthening Intellectual
·
Continue to promote greater collaboration among APEC’s IP rights
CTI and IPEG
Property Rights
·
experts, ABAC, and enforcement authorities across the APEC region.
Economies CTI and
Take concrete steps to stop the proliferation of counterfeit and
IPEG
2010 2010
pirated goods through cooperative efforts such as the APEC
Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy Initiative and related
capacity-building activities, and information sharing between IPR
authorities and stakeholders.
Work Program
·
Actions Required
Responsibility
Timeline
Continue to advance work on exploring ways to address satellite
CTI and IPEG
2010
and cable signal theft.
Aligning Standards and
·
Reinforce our engagement in international standardization activities
Economies CTI and
2010 2010
Improving Conformance
·
and promote greater alignment with relevant international
SCSC EWG CTI and
2010 2010
·
standards where appropriate, particularly in areas that would
SCSC CTI/SCSC
contribute to innovation, safety, security, and solutions to energy
CTI/SCSC
·
and environmental issues. Develop a long-term strategy on business
engagement in standards and conformity assessment. Continue
discussions on improving and better aligning toy safety
requirements. Develop a best practices model on helping
businesses, particularly SMEs, gain access to information on
technical regulatory requirements and overcome technical barriers
to trade.
REI “Across-the-Border”
Enhancing Transport,
·
Further develop the Supply-chain Connectivity (SC) Framework in
CTI and its sub-fora EC
Logistics and Digital
·
close cooperation with relevant APEC fora and ABAC, with a view to
TPTWG PSU ATCWG
Connectivity
·
achieving outcomes of the first phase of its development by end
CTI EC TPTWG PSU
2013. Explore ways to enhance multi-modal connectivity by air, sea,
CTI EC TPTWG
2010
and land, to facilitate a more seamless flow of goods and services,
and business travellers throughout the Asia-Pacific. Develop
common approaches towards well-functioning public-private
partnership (PPP) markets. Explore the feasibility of utilising PPPs for
the upgrading of transport infrastructure that contributes to the
enhancement of supply chain connectivity in the region.
Work Program
Actions Required
Responsibility
Timeline
· Continue work on enhancing digital connectivity by building upon
CTI/ECSG TEL
work carried out on the Digital Prosperity Checklist.
Enhancing Trade Facilitation
· Consider and report at MRT 2010 the recommendations to improve
Economies CTI and
MRT 2010-
upon the second Trade Facilitation Action Plan (TFAP II) and to prepare
subfora Economies CTI
2011 MRT
for the final assessment of the TFAP II outcomes in 2011. · Continue
and subfora
2010- 2011
· Implement initiatives such as communications mechanism and other
Economies CTI and
2010 2010
approaches to trade recovery, to build trusted relationships and to
SCCP CTI and SCCP
experience sharing and discussion of implementation issues of
international trade "Single Windows" across APEC using recognized
international instruments and standards to enhance interoperability of
trade systems.
Securing Regional Trade
recognise one another’s Authorised Economic Operator (AEO)
programmes in alignment with the World Customs Organization
(WCO) SAFE Framework of Standards. · Address the development of
AEO programmes among APEC economies in alignment with the WCO
SAFE Framework of Standards.
Strengthening the Digital
· Facilitate implementation of the Digital Prosperity Checklist, including
Economy and Information
completing a gap analysis of current APEC work on elements in the
Networks
Checklist and a survey of APEC economies’ practices in relation to the
policy goals in the Checklist and report progress at MRT 2010. ·
Continue ongoing efforts towards using ICT to address socio-economic
issues and realising APEC’s goal of achieving universal access to
broadband in all member economies by 2015.
CTI and ECSG TEL
MRT 2010
2015
Work Program
Actions Required
Responsibility
Improving Governance and Transparency
Transparency and Anti-
· Continue good governance measures and anti-corruption actions by
Economies ACT ABAC
Corruption
member economies and ABAC and encourage public-private
Economies ACT
partnerships to further APEC efforts to enhance governance,
Relevant Economies
institutional integrity and combat corruption. · Implement measures to
give practical effect to the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Experts’
Task Force’s Singapore Declaration on Combating Corruption,
Strengthening Governance and Enhancing Institutional Integrity and the
APEC Guidelines on Enhancing Governance and Anti-Corruption. ·
Consider where applicable, to ratify the UN Convention against
Corruption and UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime
and take measures to implement their provisions, in accordance with
economies’ legal frameworks.
Timeline
Industry Dialogues
· Further deepen work streams to support health innovation in 2010. ·
CTI and LSIF HWG
Economies to complete the LSIF Enablers of Investment Checklist in
Economies CTI and
order to identify capacity building needs. · Continue work to develop a
LSIF Economies MTF
multi-year strategic plan and projects for achieving regulatory
CTI and CD
2010 2010
harmonization, where appropriate, for both medicines and medical
devices. · Relevant APEC fora to initiate a productive dialogue with the
European Commission towards establishing a science-based
methodology for the classification of nickel alloys as dangerous
substances. · Continue promoting best practices and information
exchange in chemicals regulation and management in the APEC
region;sharing information to assist members with implementation
questions on chemicals management regulations, and moving forward
work that contributes to sustainable growth.
Work Program
Actions Required
Responsibility
Timeline
SCE BMC
2010
Economic and Technical Cooperation
A strategic, goal-oriented
· Continue ongoing efforts to develop a more strategic, goal-oriented
and multi-year approach
and multi-year approach toward capacity building, and to strengthen
toward capacity building
the prioritisation and effective implementation of capacity building
activities across APEC fora.
· Continue to strengthen APEC’s engagement with other multilateral
organisations and ABAC
SCE
Small and Medium Enterprises · Continue implementation of the
Ongoing
four-year SMEWG Strategic Plan 2009- 2012 and the various projects
until 2012
and initiatives under the strategic plan’s six priority areas. · Continue
SMEWG SMEWG
the training of SMEs in good business practices that will ensure their
HRDWG
sustainability as suppliers to overseas markets.
Transport · Continue to work towards agreements or other means to
TPTWG TPTWG EWG
achieve air services liberalisation in the region. · Continue work to
ATCWG
promote sustainable transportation, including the sustainable expansion
of air transport services through the work of the APEC Aviation
Emissions Task Force, cooperation with the Energy Working Group to
identify and adopt energy efficient policies, practices, and technologies,
and with the Agricultural Technical Cooperation Working Group to
promote the development of next-generation biofuels.
Work Program
Actions Required
Responsibility
Women’s Empowerment · Facilitate women’s access to education,
GFPN SMEWG
training, financing, technology, and infrastructure, to maximise their
HRDWG
Timeline
economic opportunities;and supporting measures to promote safe
employment for women in informal and vulnerable sectors, growth in
women-led SMEs, and support for social enterprises for women.
Marine Resources and Fisheries · Make progress on and review the
Economies MRCWG,
implementation of the Bali Plan of Action, discuss climate change,
FWG
ecosystem based management and food security at the 3rd APEC
Oceans-related Ministerial Meeting (AOMM3) in 2010.
Human Security
2010
Counter-terrorism and emergency preparedness · Economies to
Economies CTTF CTTF,
update their Counter Terrorism Action Plans (CTAPs), which will provide
TFEP TPTWG
useful information for identifying capacity building needs and
CTI/SCCP TFEP
2010 2010
prioritising actions accordingly.. · Continue ongoing efforts in APEC’s
work in areas such as trade security, aviation security, anti-terrorist
protection of energy infrastructure, countering terrorism financing,
fighting cyber-terrorism, and protecting the food supply against
terrorist contamination. · Continue efforts on strengthening business
and community resilience, enhancing public private partnerships,
facilitating coordination and collaboration between emergency
management agencies in the region and reducing disaster risks.
Health · Build regional capacity for avian and other potential human
influenza pandemics and emerging and re-emerging infectious
diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis. · Strengthen health
Work Program
2010
systems and cooperate to prevent and control emerging infectious
Economies HWG, TFEP
diseases in the world.
SCE Economies HWG
Actions Required
Responsibility
Timeline
Food Security and Food Safety · Continue cooperation with the private
Economies SOM
On-going
sector, academia, and civil society to address food security and safe
Economies SCE
2010 2010
food supply challenges, including by promoting sustainable agricultural
CTI/MAG
2010
production and rural development. · Undertake capacity building
ATCWG/HLPDAB
projects and other practical initiatives to address food security, review
HLPDAB ATCWG
best policies and practices, and report back to Leaders in 2010 on the
CTI/SCSC/FSCF
progress. · Adopt WTO consistent and science-based regulation of
ATCWG/HLPDAB
new advanced technologies, including biotechnology, to promote
FWG/MRCWG/ATCWG
utilisation of such technologies to make food storage, transportation
/HLPDAB
and distribution systems more efficient. · Continue activities planned
for the FSCF and the FSCF PTIN in 2010, including the launch of the first
reproducible training modules in 2010. · Promote efficient and
well-functioning markets in agricultural products. · Promote efficient
and sustainable use of our fresh water, marine and terrestrial resources.
Promoting Sustainable
Growth
Leaders reaffirmed their
· Continue tackling the threat of climate change and work towards an
commitment to the Sydney
ambitious outcome in Copenhagen in December 2009, within the
Declaration on Climate
objective, provisions and principles of the United Nations Framework
Change, Energy Security and
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). · Implement measures
Clean Development
including financial assistance and technology transfer to developing
economies for their adaptation to the adverse impact of climate change
in undertaking global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Economies SOM EWG
2009-2010
Work Program
Actions Required
Responsibility
Timeline
·
Enhance work on meeting the aspirational goal in the Sydney
Economies SOM EWG
On-going
·
Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean
Economies EWG
AELM 2010
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Development of increasing forest cover in the region by at least 20
SFOM TPTWG
million hectares of all types of forests by 2020. Rationalise and phase Economies EWG
out over the medium term fossil fuel subsidies that encourage
TPTWG
wasteful consumption, while recognising the importance of
providing those in need with essential energy services. Review
progress on this at the meeting in 2010. Advance work on sharing
best practices in energy efficiency and encourage economies to
participate in the APEC Peer Review on Energy Efficiency. Continue
to work towards goal of reducing energy intensity.
Leaders identified the APEC
·
Explore ways to reduce existing barriers to trade and investment,
Economies CTI and
2010 2010
Environmental Goods and
·
and refrain from introducing new barriers in EGS. Take steps to
subfora Economies CTI
AMM 2010
Services (EGS) Work
·
facilitate the diffusion of climate-friendly and other EGS
and subfora
Programme as a key thrust
technologies, including through economic and technical
SCE/EWG/ISTWG SOM
of APEC’s sustainable growth
cooperation (ECOTECH) and capacity building activities. Develop
CTI and subfora
agenda.
and implement a set of concrete actions under APEC’s EGS work
programme to support sustainable growth in the region and
advance work in the EGS sector. Review progress on this work at
AMM 2010.
APEC Reform
Strengthening APEC
·
Continue to strengthen the operational and institutional capacities
APEC Secretariat BMC
·
of the APEC Secretariat. Seek collaborative technology solutions
APEC Secretariat
Ongoing
similar to the HRDWG wiki website, which can serve as a model for
collaborative communications and the dissemination of Open
Education Resources.
Work Program
Actions Required
Responsibility
·
Accelerate efforts to develop more responsive and effective
Economies SOM
·
mechanisms to ensure that APEC remains the premier forum for
Economies APEC
·
regional economic cooperation. Consider further voluntary
Secretariat BMC
contributions to support the PSU post-2010. Continue work on
APEC's project management reform on project assessment and
monitoring process
Timeline