[DC-Trade] Proposal for Dynamic Coalition document on trade transparency

parminder parminder at itforchange.net
Thu Aug 10 21:29:51 PDT 2017



On Friday 11 August 2017 05:31 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> snip
> We have lost the word "balanced" and gained a second bullet point that
> David (who should know because he has served on a Trade Advisory
> Committee) finds problematic.  Since we already have a paragraph about
> opening up proposals to a notice and comment and public hearing
> process, I suggest we lose the second bullet point above and return to
> a single paragraph which would focus on stakeholder inclusion, saying:
>
>   * Countries should make trade advisory bodies and implementation
>     bodies more balanced by taking proactive steps to include more
>     diverse stakeholders such as representatives of Internet users,
>     consumer organizations, and experts in human rights and development.
>

Could it be

Countries should make trade advisory bodies and implementation bodies
more balanced by taking proactive steps to include more diverse
stakeholders such as representatives of Internet users, and
organisations working in the areas of human rights, development, and
consumer issues.

BTW, not clear about what "implementation bodies" means above, but can
live with it ...

parminder   


> Does that sound any better?
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