Market allocation discussions are prohibited because participants must never use GRA to divide markets, geographies, countries, sectors, customer groups, project categories, sponsor groups, investor groups, insurer groups, or opportunities.
Market allocation can occur directly or indirectly. Unsafe statements may include suggestions that one firm should handle one region while another handles another region, one insurer should focus on one risk class while another avoids it, one bank should take one category of projects while another takes another, or one sponsor should control a country pathway or sector.
GRA may organize thematic workstreams, national pathways, and sector platforms for governance and readiness purposes. That is different from market allocation. Routing participants into appropriate stewardship roles does not permit commercial actors to divide markets among themselves.
A safe GRA discussion may ask: what risks affect this region, what evidence is needed, what public-good priorities exist, and what readiness gaps remain?
An unsafe discussion asks: which company gets which market, which customer, which country, which project, which sponsor, or which commercial opportunity?
GRA must preserve independent decision-making by all participants.
