EPA Review Annex Documents - DFID
EPA Review Annex Documents - DFID
EPA Review Annex Documents - DFID
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- State Secretariat of Environment<br />
- State Secretariat of Economy and Planning<br />
The CNNC management team is currently led by an Ambassador, in charge of trade<br />
negotiations for all regional and bilateral forums, as well as for issues related to the<br />
WTO. The Ambassador for Trade Negotiations has lead responsibilities for conducting<br />
international trade negotiations. A group of approximately seven experts from SEREX<br />
serves as different forum coordinators, but there are no experts in negotiating disciplines<br />
(i.e. services or SPS). The SEREX staff assigned to the CNNC work as a support<br />
division that provides essential administrative services and coordinate agendas among<br />
the different forums. The CNNC staff worked in all trade negotiations, multilateral,<br />
bilateral or regional, however for each venue it has a coordinator. Due to the<br />
complexities of bilateral or regional trade negotiations historically, the D.R. has<br />
conducted one trade negotiation at a time, although there has been some overlapping in<br />
the past. For each negotiation a coordinator is appointed, who is chosen for both their<br />
background and expertise. As for each of the specialised topics in the negotiations, it<br />
falls into the responsibilities of the trade specialist in each of the D.R. institutions prior<br />
described. 92<br />
Human resources<br />
• Skills<br />
The following table presents the level of participation by each ministry and the level of<br />
skills. Most member have postgraduate studies, and in areas of economics.<br />
Table 5 Distribution of the Main Trade Negotiators among D.R. institutions<br />
Number of Negotiators<br />
Principal Ministry<br />
State Secretary of<br />
Foreign Affairs Others<br />
<strong>EPA</strong><br />
Lead Negotiator<br />
(SEREX) Ministries Level Of Skills<br />
Minister 1 Masters Degree<br />
Under Secretary- Team Leader 1 Masters Degree<br />
Advisors<br />
Market Access<br />
1 Masters Degree<br />
Team Leader 1 Masters Degree<br />
Technicians<br />
Agriculture<br />
1 3 Masters Degree<br />
Team Leader 1 PHD<br />
Technicians<br />
Services and Investments<br />
2 Masters Degree<br />
Team Leader 1 Masters Degree<br />
92 For D.R.-CAFTA negotiation, a special office was created. The Special Office for D.R.-CAFTA<br />
Negotiations was established under the Secretary of Industry and Commerce. This was the first<br />
instance that trade negotiations were conducted by a special office, instead of CNNC. There was<br />
a strategic interest in joining CAFTA since it was feared that under the Caribbean Basin Initiative<br />
apparel exporters in D.R. would be disadvantaged with respect Central America if the R was left<br />
out of CAFTA.<br />
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