Public Policy and Private Standards: Making the FitChatham House, London – 11th of October, 2007.Public and non-governmental sector met at Chatham House to discuss the benefits and constraints of governmental engagement with private voluntary standards. On 11 October 2007 the ISEAL Alliance and the U.K.’s Department for International Development (DFID) held a seminar at Chatham House (London) aimed at initiating a discussion between the public and non-governmental sector about how governmental authorities can better engage with private voluntary standards, and the benefits and constraints of doing so.   Photographs © ISEAL Alliance: Christian Lundmark Jensen – Co-ordinator International Forestry Policy, Danish Ministry of the Environment, Laura Stewart – Food Services Manager, Marine Stewardship Council
The programme provided participants with three examples of interfaces between governmental bodies and private standards initiatives, in the fields of forestry, food safety and fisheries. Each case study was illustrated through presentations by a representative from the public sector and one from a private standards initiative. The organisers presented recent research they had each independently undertaken on WTO agreements relating to private voluntary standards. DFID had looked into the lessons that the Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Agreement can draw from the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement in its relationship to private standards. The ISEAL Alliance discussed legal opinions on how the Technical Barriers to Trade and Government Procurement agreements relate to private standards. In excess of fifty participants attended, representing governmental bodies ranging from the sub-national level, via national administrations, the European Union, through to multi-lateral institutions including the WTO, the OECD and the World Bank group. Representatives from voluntary standards initiatives and their users, and the academic world, were also present. Given such high level attendance, much of the day was dedicated to open discussion which engendered a high level of engagement from participants. Downloads Available:
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