Brussels, 10/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - While welcoming the real progress made in the last quarter of 2007 on the agriculture chapter of the Doha discussions, on 30 November, Pascal Lamy called on negotiators to find the broad terms of a compromise on agriculture and non-agricultural market access with a view to completing the Round by the end of 2008. The chairman of the agricultural negotiations committee Crawford Falconer said on Monday 10 December that the finalisation of the three chapters of the export competition section (credit, guarantees and assurances, state commercial enterprises, and food aid) were close to being finalised. Falconer is expected to draw up fresh discussion documents by the end of this year, then to resume consultations between 3 and 11 January. On 21 January, he will begin drawing up his revised draft compromise on modalities for liberalising agricultural trade, which he will circulate in early February, after a possible meeting of a group of trade ministers at the World Economic Forum at Davos at the end of January. (E.H.)