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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 · 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 · 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