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The OECD's Council Working Party on Shipbuilding (WP6) - Information Sheet

29-Feb-2008

This information sheet provides a brief introduction to the purpose and activities of the OECD’s Council Working Party on Shipbuilding (WP6), with particular focus on its co-operation with non-OECD economies with significant shipbuilding industries.

Revised Understanding on Export Credits for Ships (SSU)

29-Feb-2008

This Sector Understanding sets common rules for government supported export credits for ships, in particular concerning interest rates and the duration of credits. The latest update of the SSU came into force in July 2008.

OECD countries agree on further liberalisation commitments in insurance and private pensions

22-Feb-2008

OECD countries have agreed on further liberalisation commitments in the areas of insurance and private pensions.  The OECD Code of Liberalisation of Current Invisible Operations has been amended to broaden the insurance obligations of the Code and introduce new obligations on private pensions, thereby establishing a new, high standard for cross-border trade in insurance and private pensions services. 

OECD releases the 2007 update of the user's guide for the OECD Codes of Liberalisation

10-Dec-2007

This users' guide aims to provide an easily accessible summary of the principles of the OECD Codes of Liberalisation of Capital Movements and of Current Invisible Operations, as well as technical commentary to the understandings and interpretations developed in their implementation.

OECD Steel Committee says market remains strong but growing risks cloud outlook

05-Dec-2007

The global steel market is in its sixth year of strong output and demand growth. But the outlook for 2008 is less buoyant amid weaker prospects for global economic growth, according to industry and government officials at the OECD’s Steel Committee meeting in Paris on 3-4 December 2007.

OECD, Arab countries to enter new phase of co-operation on investment, governance

29-Nov-2007

OECD and Arab countries are to enter a new phase of co-operation on investment and governance policies, following a three-day meeting in Cairo of ministers and senior officials responsible for the MENA-OECD Initiative on Governance and Investment for Development.

Arab, OECD countries launch new initiatives to promote investment in MENA region

27-Nov-2007

Arab and OECD countries are launching new initiatives to promote investment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including a women business leaders' forum and a landmark "MENA 500 Companies" publication presenting the region's leading commercial groups, as part of an ongoing drive to boost economic growth through their MENA-OECD Investment Programme.

OECD publishes report on implementation of the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

18-Sep-2007

Adhering governments are committed to promoting the Guidelines and to making them influential among companies operating in or from their territories. This report describes what governments have done improve the effectiveness, transparency and timeliness of  their implementation over the June 2006-June 2007 period and addresses considerations for future action. 

How investment and trade in services rules interact in Regional Trade Agreements

29-Aug-2007

The Investment Committee has adopted the key findings of the OECD report on "The interaction between investment and services chapters in selected Regional Trade Agreements" which addresses the implications of this interaction for levels of investment protection and liberalisation.

OECD and IOPS invite public comment on draft guidelines on the licensing of pension entities

27-Jul-2007

The OECD and the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) are inviting public comment on draft guidelines to help pensions regulators and supervisory authorities improve the way occupational, private pension entities, such as pension fund management companies or pension trustees, are managed in order to boost their financial security and performance.




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