Programs

	To educate government, industry and civil society about the critical role served by balanced and objective regulations and technical standards in facilitating the international trade and investment flows, technological innovations, indigenous economic growth and environmental protection needed to achieve sustainable development; Industry May 2004 LA Kogan Presentation Before the Small Business Coalition for Regulatory Relief, National Federation of Independent Business, Washington DC How EU Precaution-Based Regulations Are a Disguised Tax on U.S. Small Business February 2005 - [Event Photos] LA Kogan Presentation at the National Wood Pallet & Container Association’s 2005 Annual Leadership Conference, Tampa, FL – The Impact of Globalization on our Industry/Education Session #1 Government December 2003 LA Kogan Hosts TBT Delegation from Vietnam Directorate for Standards and Quality for US-Vietnam Trade Council June 2004 LA Kogan Engages in Dialogue with the Kenyan Embassy to the United States
	To evaluate and recommend improvements to the international standards development process that serves as the benchmark for international trade, and to help ensure that the rulemaking and harmonization activities undertaken by treaty-based intergovernmental scientific and economic standards bodies and non-treaty-based non-governmental standards bodies are consistent with the current provisions of the WTO Agreements; Government October 2003 LA Kogan Presentation at the 2003 ANSI International Policy Committee (IPC) Meeting April 2005 ITSSD Submits Comments Critical of the ANSI Draft Revision to the United States Standards Strategy (USSS) Industry December 2005 The ITSSD Sets Forth and Documents in the Following Discussion its Key Concerns About the Evolving ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Standards Initiative July 2003 LA Kogan Presentation at the Global Business Dialogue Symposium on Standards, Regulations and the Global Trading System
	To engage in an international dialogue at the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and other intergovernmental fora that explores the truths and fallacies surrounding the welfare state (socialist) model of sustainable development currently being promoted by certain governments and civil society organizations through the multiple offices, agencies and secretariats of the United Nations;
	To challenge and debunk the false information about the environmental, health and safety risks engendered by free markets, economic growth, scientific discovery, technological innovation and industrialization that are being irresponsibly disseminated by civil society organizations to induce public fears, shape negative public opinion; February 2007 (transcript forthcoming) LA Kogan Presentation at the First Good Neighbor Forum, Greeley, Colorado What We Have to Fear From Fear-Based Sustainable Development: Extortion Versus Just Compensation
	To participate in WTO dispute settlement proceedings to counter the use of technical regulations and standards that promote the welfare state model of sustainable development and/or disguised protectionist measures, through direct representation of developing country government WTO parties and through preparation and submission of WTO amicus curiae briefs;
	To advocate a new positive global paradigm of sustainable development aimed at replacing the negative sustainable development model now being promoted and implemented within multilateral, regional and bilateral legal and public fora;

To challenge and debunk the false information disseminated about health, environmental and other emergencies used to justify the abrogation/piracy of private intellectual property rights and the expropriation/unauthorized 'taking' of foreign investments.

Intergovernmental

June 2007

The WIPO Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA) Admits ITSSD as Ad Hoc Observer

- English (p.2)
- French (p.2)

December 2006

The WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Admits ITSSD as Ad Hoc Observer

- English
- Spanish
- French

Civil Society

June 29, 2007

LA Kogan Presentation at Moscow State University – BASIC DIRECTIONS OF MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY: BIOTECHNOLOGY - A SCIENTIFIC & PRACTICAL PRIORITY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

June 28, 2007

LA Kogan Presentation at the The International Conference of the Government of the Kirov Region, convened at Vyatka State University by the Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Russian Society of Biotechnologists BASIC DIRECTIONS OF MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY: BIOTECHNOLOGY - A SCIENTIFIC PRACTICAL PRIORITY OF THE KIROV REGION DEVELOPMENT

October 2006 [Event Photos]

LA Kogan Presentation at the 10th Annual Property Rights Foundation of America Conference, Albany, NY U.S. Private Property Rights Under International Assault/Private Property Rights – The Record and the Vision

June 2005

ITSSD Moderates Joint Washington DC Press Conference With Other Non-governmental Organizations
The Future Of U.S.-Brazil Trade Relations In
The Shadow Of Brazil’s Piracy of American Intellectual Property

Industry

Civil Society – April 2007[Detailed Outline]

LA Kogan Presentation at the XXth Annual Forum da Liberdade, Convened by the Instituto de Estudos Empresariais (IEE) in Porto Alegre, Brasil – Rediscovering the Value of Intellectual Property Rights/IP in the 21st Century

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