Shipbuilding

Permanent URL of this page: www.oecd.org/sti/shipbuilding

 

The OECD Council Working Party on Shipbuilding (WP6) seeks to progressively establish normal competitive conditions in the industry. It encourages transparency through data collection and analysis, and seeks to expand policy dialogue with non-OECD economies that have significant shipbuilding industries.

 

The Working Party on Shipbuilding is the only international body that can influence and guide government policies by identifying and, where possible, eliminate factors that distort the shipbuilding market.

The bringing about of normal competitive conditions in the shipbuilding industry remains the WP's principal priority. It also encourages transparency, through monitoring and peer review, in order to discourage subsidies and other non-commercial practices. The WP is also a forum for information exchange, and is expanding its policy dialogue with non-OECD economies with significant shipbuilding industries.

 

The Working Party is chaired by Ambassador Tore Eriksen, Permanent Representative of Norway to the OECD. Participating OECD members are: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. Croatia and Romania are full participants in the Working Party. The European Commission, representing the European Union, also participates in WP6 meetings.

 

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