Job opportunity
Call for Experts under FWC Lot 3: Trade and Market Access
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Worldwide
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Position: |
Call for Experts under FWC Lot 3: Trade and Market Access
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Governance and Economic Development
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Framework Contract
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Name of project: |
Policy Support Facility For the Implementation of EU Foreign Policy-PSF 2019 Worldwide-Lot 3: Trade and Market Access
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Task description: |
The overall objective of the FWC Lot 3 is to contribute to improved market access for EU companies in third countries through increasing business and trading opportunities for EU companies in third countries, ensuring proper enforcement and implementation of trade and investment agreements and supporting market access activities to ensure the removal of trade and investment barriers for EU business. In order to achieve the above mentioned objectives, experts with experience in international trade law and policy and with extensive knowledge of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) are needed to perform the following activities and tasks:
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Qualifications: |
To carry out the above tasks, technical expertise in one or more of the following areas is required: • customs and trade facilitation; • import formalities and requirements; • non-tariff barriers (NTBs); • technical barriers to trade (TBTs); • investment; • services; • intellectual property rights; • public procurement; • corporate social responsibility; • sustainable development and environment; • sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures; • agriculture and fisheries; • competition policy and state-owned enterprises; • anti-fraud • energy and raw material • telecommunications • electronic commerce • Proceedings and expertise linked to WTO dispute settlements and trade defence instruments • Identification and efforts to remove market access barriers in third countries • Advocacy with third country governments and civil society organisations • Taxation issues Additionally, experience in one or more of the following areas is highly preferred:
Experience in strategic partner countries including: Australia, Canada, China, China-Hong Kong, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America, Vietnam, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Brazil. |
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Other information: |
GOPA is the leader of the consortium awarded the Framework Service Contract for the Policy Support Facility for the Implementation of EU Foreign Policy, Lot 3: Trade and Market Access. Over the lifetime of the Framework Contract (2 years renewable), we will receive various requests for services for short- and medium-term assignments on a wide range of trade-related topics. Each request will include detailed ToR of the specific requirements. Only candidates matching the selection criteria will be contacted. |
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