New Zealand's Policy Priorities and Hosting Arrangements for APEC 2021 - 2021/SOM1/ACT/002
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2021/SOM1/ACT/002
Agenda Item: 2
New Zealand’s Policy Priorities and Hosting
Arrangements for APEC 2021
Purpose: Information
Submitted by: New Zealand
32nd Anti-Corruption and Transparency
Experts Working Group Meeting
19 February 2021
New Zealand’s
Policy Priorities and
Hosting Arrangements for
APEC 2021
1Context
• Focus on economic recovery post COVID-19
• Addressing regional trends, transformations and challenges
• Implementing the APEC Putrajaya Vision 2040
21. Economic and Trade Policies that
Strengthen Recovery
• Macro-economic actions and In 2021, APEC will need to:
structural reform • Take urgent steps to respond to the COVID-19
health and economic crisis
• Agree a new APEC agenda on structural reform
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• Free and open trade and Undertake a mid-term review of the APEC
Services Competitiveness Roadmap
investment • Take practical steps to support the WTO ahead of
MC12
• Agree a way forward on FTAAP
• Trade facilitation and • Implement the Declaration on Facilitating the
connectivity Movement of Essential Goods
32. Increasing Inclusion and Sustainability
for Recovery
• Policy foundations for an inclusive In 2021, APEC will need to:
and sustainable recovery • Conclude 2021 AEPR on Structural Reform and
the Future of Work
• Develop a new food security roadmap
• Opportunities to advance inclusion • Implement the La Serena Roadmap for Women
and Inclusive Growth
and unlock potential
• Further advance APEC’s inclusion agenda
• Strengthen work to address our most serious
• Measures to incentivise environmental challenges
sustainability, support green
recovery and tackle climate change
43. Pursuing Innovation and a Digitally-
Enabled Recovery
• Advancing digital inclusion, In 2021, APEC will need to:
infrastructure and green • Implement the APEC Internet and Digital
Economy Roadmap work program
technology • Prepare our workforces for the digital age
• Increase the uptake of green technologies
• Take steps to digitally-enable business and trade
• Digitally-enabled business and
• Promote innovation and competition
trade
• Respond to new technologies
• Structural reform to support
innovation
5Scheduling considerations • New Zealand will replicate the SOM clusters and physical meeting order as much as possible, consistent with working group and committee terms of references. • New Zealand has carefully considered options for meeting time that accommodate the most number of economies. All meetings will take place at: • Time-Slot 1: NZT 1500 – 1800 (SGT 1000 -1300) • Time-Slot 2: NZT 0000 -0300 (SGT 1900 – 2200) • Due to the realities associated with virtual meetings across many time zones we will continue to promote shorter meetings. • With the goal of replicating the structure of SOM Clusters and avoiding overlapping meetings involving the same delegates (and programme directors), most meetings will run on consecutive days. • We will endeavour to create a two-day ‘weekend’ break in the calendars. We will generally aim for weekends to fall across Sunday and Monday New Zealand / Singapore time. • Chairs will be encouraged to rationalise agendas and run meetings to time, making full use of intersessional periods and providing papers in advance.
Hosting arrangements
• All scheduled APEC 2021 meetings can make use of New Zealand’s
virtual meeting platform, Microsoft Teams, from SOM1.
• New Zealand’s virtual hosting team will provide support for the
virtual meeting platform technology, including registration.
• It is important meetings are scheduled early, and with as much
notice as possible.
• We will provide guidance and support to APEC delegates, with the
goal of creating a positive user experience for all.
• For delegates, it is important that you carefully follow our guidance
for registering to meetings and using Microsoft Teams.
7APEC 2021 Provisional High Level Meeting Calendar
Meeting Dates
Informal Senior Officials’ Meeting (ISOM) 09 December – 11 December 2020
First Senior Officials’ meeting and related meetings (SOM 1) 18 February – 12 March 2021
Finance Deputies’ Meeting Week of 16 March 2021
Proposed Informal Finance Ministers’ Meeting Week of 23 March 2021 TBC
Second Senior Officials’ Meeting and related meetings (SOM 2) 18 May – 4 June 2021
Join, Work, Grow. Together.
Ministers’ Responsible for Trade
Structural Reform Ministers’ Meeting
Senior Finance Officials
5 June 2021
Week of 14 June 2021
Week of 21 June 2021
Haumi ē, Hui ē, Tāiki ē.
Proposed Informal APEC Economic Leaders’ Retreat
Third Senior Officials’ Meeting and related meetings (SOM 3)
Food Security Ministers’ Meeting
Week of 12 July 2021 TBC
10 August – 03 September 2021
Week of 16 August 2021
Women and the Economy Forum Week of 21 September 2021
Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Week of 05 October 2021
Finance Ministers’ Meeting, Senior Finance Officials, Finance Deputies Week of 26 October 2021
APEC Economic Leaders’ Week Week of 08 November 2021
(APEC Economic Leaders’ Retreat, APEC Ministers’ Meeting, Concluding Senior Officials’ Meeting)
These dates will be kept updated on the APEC 2021 website here:
https://www.apec2021nz.org/apec-nz-2021/meeting-calendar
8Schedule for ACTWG and ACT-NET • Gender Mainstreaming Symposium - April • 33rd ACTWG meeting – SOM3 • 9th ACT-NET meeting – SOM3
Join, Work, Grow. Together.
Haumi ē, Hui ē, Tāiki ē.
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