Abstract

Desde os anos 90, os fóruns multilaterais de negociações têm sido palco de discussões sobre a redução e eliminação de certos subsídios à pesca. O reconhecimento das distorções ao comércio e dos efeitos ambientais causados por este tipo de subsídio não foram, contudo, suficientes para as partes acordarem sobre regras de definições e determinações de subsídios. Com a adoção dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) em 2015, no âmbito das Nações Unidas, uma meta de proibição e eliminação de subsídios danosos foi pela primeira vez apresentada aos países. Este artigo descreve as principais negociações e proposições sobre subsídios à pesca com base em documentos oficiais e públicos desde a criação da Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC), passando pela falta de acordo na 11ª Conferência Ministerial desta Organização em Buenos Aires (2017), e desdobramentos até início de 2019. Since the 1990s, discussions aiming to reduce and to eliminate certain harmful fisheries subsidies have been taking place at multilateral forums. If the trade distorting effects and the environmental threats of these subsidies are no longer questioned, clear rules on definitions and determination of these practices have not been set giving divergences of approaches and interests of member States of the multilateral trade system. With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, within the scope of the United Nations, countries were firstly challenged with a clear target to prohibit and to eliminate types of harmful subsidies. This article covers the main developments on the thematic based on official and public documents since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and tackle the major proposals tabled in anticipation to the Organization`s 11th Ministerial Conference, in Buenos Aires in 2017, and its progresses until beginning of 2019. It also concludes that lack of technical cooperation and convergent interest made impossible for the Conference to drawn conclusive line under any sort of definition.

Highlights

  • This article covers the main developments on the thematic based on official and public documents since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and tackle the major proposals tabled in anticipation to the Organizations 11th Ministerial Conference, in Buenos Aires in 2017, and its progresses until beginning of 2019

  • The topic of fisheries subsidies has been considered one of the unfinished business form the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as, differently to other fishing topics, it was set under the prerogative of the Organization’s technical apparatus in detriment of fishing and food bodies of the United Nations System, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

  • The following section will tackle recent developments including seven proposals tabled at the Negotiating Group on Rules (NGR) in a failed attempt to pave the road for an agreement in Buenos Aires and my subsidy further talks

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Introduction

The topic of fisheries subsidies has been considered one of the unfinished business form the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as, differently to other fishing topics, it was set under the prerogative of the Organization’s technical apparatus in detriment of fishing and food bodies of the United Nations System, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, within the scope of the United Nations, countries were firstly challenged with a clear target to prohibit and to eliminate types of harmful subsidies.

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