Translation of "Capacité de formuler des politiques " (French → English) :

3. Considers that the Aid for Trade package should include a wide range of capacity-building measures and technical assistance to improve the ability of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States to identify needs and strategies and develop their competence and efficiency in trade negotiations, their capacity to formulate regional trade policy, in particular as regards South-South inter-regional trade, and their capacity to establish local markets;

And to achieve the third objective "Involvement of consumer organisations in EU policies", the main actions consist in the review of mechanisms for participation of consumer organisations in EU policy making and in the setting up of education and capacity-building projects.

The main actions for achieving this objective are the revision of mechanisms for the participation of consumer organisations in EU policy-making and the establishment of education and capacity-building projects.

31. Considers that, in the interests of democracy, the most important capacity-building measure is to assist WTO members in developing a democratic and pluralist approach to trade policy formulation and effective monitoring of trade policy; calls on the EU to encourage other WTO members to join it in producing a declaration of principles with regard to openness and democracy in trade policy-making; calls on the WTO secretariat to develop and disseminate best-practice guidelines on openness, consultation and pluralism in trade policy formulations;

12. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the technical assistance and capacity building programmes within the 'Integrated Framework' help the LDCs not only to apply the agreements, but also to defend their interest better in negotiations from the point of view of their development strategy and to influence the formulation of trade policies; asks that the strengthening of analytical capabilities should be addressed as a matter of urgency in the first stages of new multilateral trade negotiat ...[+++]ions;

12. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the technical assistance and capacity building programmes within the 'Integrated Framework' help the LDCs not only to apply the agreements, but also to defend their interest better in negotiations from the point of view of their development strategy and to influence the formulation of trade policies; calls for a priority effort to be given to building analysis capability before going into the substance of the negotiations in a new round;