Lithuanian diplomat elected as a vice-chair of the OECD working party
Updated 2018-12-10
On 6 December 2018 in Paris, Ms. Ieva Baršauskaitė, a diplomat of the Lithuanian Permanent Mission to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva, was elected as a vice-chair of the OECD Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment.
The OECD serves as a forum, where the world’s more developed economies can share successful experiences and discuss best practices. The OECD brings together the expertise of a wide range of policy communities. This expertise is backed by high-quality and evidence-based analyses. The organization has contributed to governments’ efforts to design and implement better policies for better lives through high quality standards of public policy. The OECD acts on the principles of the highest standards and maximum transparency, while paying a lot of attention to the integrity of various economic areas and policy transparency.
The Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment focuses its analytical work, including empirical studies of selected policy areas and economic sectors, aimed at promoting the mutual compatibility of trade and environment policies in practice, in order to contribute to sustainable development. Recently a lot of group’s focus was dedicated to the greening of the regional trade agreements, looking for the best ways to use them to progress the environmental and sustainability agenda. Many discussions are also focused on the deepening of understanding of creation of the circular economy, including the international material resources trade, trade in waste, scrap and second-hand goods, creation of eco-design policies, greening public procurement. Traditionally, the reform of the fossil fuel support is present in the Working Party’s agenda.
Ms. Baršauskaitė has been chairing the World Trade Organization’s Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures in 2017-2018.
