Third follow-up report to PIU Report "Rights of Exchange"

The Cabinet Office PIU Report "Rights of Exchange: Social, Health, Environmental and Trade Objectives on the Global Stage" was published in September 2000. It aimed to examine how best to maintain momentum for an open and rules-based multilateral trading system, while achieving improvements in social, health, environmental and animal welfare ("SHE") standards. It emerged from the background of a failed attempt to launch a new round of multilateral trade negotiations at Seattle in 1999, and continuing concerns about the relationship between the rules of the World Trade Organisation and SHE objectives.

DTI has already co-ordinated two follow-up reports (December 2000 and October 2001) on the implementation of the PIU Report Recommendations. Various Government Departments lead on implementing the Report's recommendations, and they have made significant progress in this work. Many of the objectives have also become embedded in the Doha Round of the World Trade Organisation negotiations, or in the commitments made at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, August-September 2002. The third and final follow-up report details achievements to date, including actions taken across Government to implement each of the Report’s recommendations.

PIU Report, 3rd Follow-up Report.doc (166kb)
PIU Report, 3rd Follow-up Report.pdf (462kb)

Contact: Armelle Diamond
Tel: 020 7215 2602
Fax: 020 7215 2867
E-mail: armelle.diamond@dti.gov.uk

Last updated 26 August 2003