This document sets out a framework for evaluating the implementation of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements. The checklist approach to the evaluation of countries‘ experience of implementation complements the OECD‘s Checklist for Negotiators (2008). Among the issues...

The introduction of real-time gross settlement (RTGS) in Australia in 1998 was a major reform to reduce risk in the Australian payments system. Since its introduction, the value of RTGS payments has grown by nearly 70 per cent and the number of these payments has more than doubled. The...

This document is a third update on developments in the field of regional trade agreements and environment covering the period late 2008 to December 2009. It complements the 2007 publication “Environment and Regional Trade Agreements” prepared under the aegis of the Joint Working Party on...