Participants noted critically that there had been little progress in implementing the proposals on strengthening special and differential treatment for the weakest developing countries and less developed countries.

Few concrete measures to foster wage differentiation can be noted so far

In contrast, few measures have been proposed to address incentive effects in benefit schemes, promote wage differentiation, enhance the efficiency of ALMPs in line with evaluations, or address the regulatory burden (e.g. the employment protection legislation).

As such, they may add in some cases to the differential effect across regions resulting from policy on public expenditure and in others are unlikely to offset it much if at all.

Innocent civilian casualties, regardless of their background or religion, regardless of anything of differentiation, are not justifiable.

(15) Whereas, where the rate of the refund varies according to the destination of the product, provision should be made for verification that the product has been imported into the third country or countries for which the refund was fixed; whereas such a measure can be relaxed without difficulty in respect of exports where the refund involved is small and the transaction is such as to offer adequate assurances that the products concerned arrive at their destination, whereas the purpose of the provision is to simplify the administrative work involved in the submission of evidence;