To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General …:2); (ii) "multilateralization" of the GPA; (iii) the reactivation of work in the (currently inactive) WTO Working Group …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on …

At the recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, WTO members called for the launch of … negotiations on disciplines relating to competition based on explicit consensus on modalities to be agreed at the fifth WTO … ministerial meeting in 2003. WTO discussions since 1997 have revealed little support for ambitious multilateral action. Proponents …