World Trade Organization Agriculture negotiations chairperson David Walker wants to update the Agricultural modalities. To do so he is asking members to use the upcoming summer break, August to mid-September, to supply the information needed for the Secretariat to compile the necessary data. He was speaking in the last meeting of the agriculture negotiations ahead of the break. The meeting marked the end of a year of work on data and templates. Members now have "road-maps" for how to take these technical tasks into a second and final step in all three pillars of the farm talks, which include market access, domestic support and export subsidies and related issues.
Not all countries are pleased with the idea of creating templates. Templates are the blank forms or tables for presenting commitments or data for members' commitments in all areas of the farm talks. Some feel that some parts of the templates are linked so closely to the substance that the substance should be settled before designing the templates.
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