N. whereas a strong Sustainable Development Chapter, that contains inter alia enforceable commitments and cooperation on key issues of an environment protection and decent work agenda, with appropriate references to ILO core labour standards and Multilateral Environmental Agreements, coupled with commonly agreed monitoring mechanisms, must be an integral component of any final agreement,

34. Stresses that "climate diplomacy" should be promoted with greater intensity and consistency in the EU's trade relations with states which are not bound by multilateral environmental protection agreements, such as the United States, China and India, which, for various reasons, are not implementing the Kyoto Protocol; also calls on the Commission to assist developing countries in the deployment of sustainable and efficient technologies through all mechanisms available;

improving international governance as regards the environment and the EU's driving role, particularly by assisting regional and international environmental monitoring and assessment, aid for implementing multilateral agreements on the environment, and support for international organisations and processes concerned with the environment and energy.

31. Is convinced that all WTO agreements need to reflect the principle of serving sustainable development; reiterates in this respect that a clarification of the relationship between trade agreements and multilateral environmental agreements is needed, as is a greater emphasis on consumer protection through the extension of the precautionary principle to all WTO agreements;

44. Calls for the WTO and the United Nations to examine new relations between international organisations so as to ensure coherence in international regulatory agreements and conventions; affirms as a consequence, the need to establish a better balance between international laws and calls for the conclusion of a new agreement on MEAs which would insulate legitimate trade measures incorporated into MEAs from WTO challenge; calls on the Commission to make the relationship between the WTO's dispute settlement procedure, on the one hand, and such procedures under international agreements, on the other, an object of negotiation and to ensur ...[+++]e that an appeal may be made to other obligations, e.g. under MEAs, in the WTO dispute settlement procedure;

46. Calls for the WTO and the United Nations to examine new relations between international organisations so as to ensure coherence in international regulatory agreements and conventions; consequently, affirms the need to establish a better balance between international laws and calls for the conclusion of a new agreement on Multilateral Environmental Agreements which would insulate legitimate trade measures incorporated into MEAs from WTO challenge; calls on the Commission to make the relationship between the WTO's dispute settleme ...[+++]nt procedure, on the one hand, and such procedures under international agreements, on the other, an object of negotiation and to ensure that an appeal may be made to other obligations, e.g. under MEAs, in the WTO dispute settlement procedure;