1. The Committee on Trade and Environment in Special Session (CTESS) held its seventeenth meeting on 1 2 March 2007 on the basis of the agenda set out in the convening airgram, WTO/AIR/2962.
2. The following international organizations were invited to participate as ad hoc invitees: UNEP, UNCTAD, the World Customs Organization (WCO), the OECD, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).