CBD
Convention on
Biological Diversity
CEP
Council for Economic
Priorities
COC
Codes of Conduct
CTE
Committee on Trade
and Environment (of the WTO)
EFTA
European Free
Trade Association
EMS
Environmental
Management Systems
EPPs
Environmentally
Preferable Products
ESTs
Environmentally
Sustainable Technologies
FIELD
Foundation for
International Environmental Law and Development
FDI
Foreign Direct
Investment
FLO
Fair Trade Labeling
Organisation
FTL
Fair Trade Labeling
GATT
Global Agreement
on Tafiffs and Trade
ICMC
International Lead Management
Center
IIED
International
Institute for Environment and Development
IFAT
International
Federation of Alternative Trade
IFOAM
International
Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
ILO
International
Labor Organisation
ISO
International
Standards Organisation
IPRs
Intellectual property
rights
MEA
Multilateral Environmental
Agreements
NRM
Natural Resource
Management
PVP
Plant Variety
Protection
SA 8000
Standard for Social
Accountability (developed by CEP)
SMEs
Small and Medium-sized
enterprises
SPS measures
Sanitary and phytosanitary
(SPS) measures
Sui generis
systems
Option for protecting
plant varieties (allowed under the exceptions to rules on IPRs in Article
27.3 (b) of the WTO TRIPs agreement)
TK
..........Traditional
Knowledge
TRIPS
Trade-Related
Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
TRIPS agreement
The WTO TRIPS
Agreement came into force in 1995 and will be reviewed in 1999 (Article
27.3b) and 2000 (entire)
UPOV
Union for the
Protection of New Varieties of Plants
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