Following the first session of the intergovernmental working group, Ruggie wrote about the main problems that face the treaty, including its lack of a specific focus, the deep divisions among states and its limited scope of transnational corporations.
Working Document 7 for the First Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, 2 - 4 July 2001.
NOTE: The eleventh part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) will take place in Bonn from 19 -- 23 October 2015.
The first two sessions of the working group, which were dedicated to "conducting constructive deliberations on the content, scope, nature and form of the future international instrument," lacked contribution from these keys states.
Records of Third and Fourth Sessions of the Board of Inquiry, June 1961.
In 2007, the Twentieth Session of the FAO Committee on Agriculture recognized the importance of this work and asked FAO to optimize the impact of industry (or voluntary) standards at both ends of the value chain, i.e. consumers and producers.
The Council at its Tenth Session reviewed the Report of the Committee on Commodity Problems on its work since the Fifth Session of the Conference.
Following the sixth session of the COFI Sub-committee on fish trade, further consultation during the 23rd session of COFI and the 116th session of the FAO Council resulted in a mandate for FAO to continue work on eco-labelling.
Due to time constraints, the conjunction search task was not presented during the first session of each work shift.
