TO LEARN MORE about the

Home | About WTO | News & events door knob protector | Trade topics | WTO Members | Documents & resources | External Relations
NOTE: THIS ARTICLE door knob protector is to help the public better understand the issues addressed at the WTO. while every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained door knob protector therein, the article does not prejudice the provisions of Member Governments.
TO LEARN MORE about the "three sisters" SPS - international standards bodies:> Codex Alimentarius> World Organisation for Animal Health> International Convention for the Protection of Plant
Met as the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS), which deals with the safety of food, animal health and plant health, the WTO Members have discussed some of the most recent these notifications, and other specific business problems. This is a routine task of the Committee is responsible for determining whether member governments meet well the requirements of the SPS Agreement.
Among the issues covered were the measures adopted or envisaged concerning honey containing pollen from genetically modified crops, residues of cadmium in cocoa and chocolate, avian influenza, mad cow, ractopamine (food additive used to produce a lean meat) and "new" foods.
Members paid tribute to China for her efforts to fulfill its obligations SPS measures, but noted with concern that some information was not yet available, some measures did not follow international standards and had no scientific basis and that certain procedures took too long. These remarks were made under the final examination of how China has acted since its accession to the WTO in 2001, under the "Transitional Review Mechanism" covering a wide range of subjects and under Agreement on the Accession of China. This mechanized provided annual reviews during the first eight years and a further review after ten years.
Members also continued their consultations on improvements to procedures to allow the President to help find solutions to the problems raised by Members at the measures taken by other, following further work agreed upon the third review of the implementation of the Agreement, as well as private and commercial standards. Finally, Members discussed the role of organizations with observer status and mode of selection against the increasing number of applications to this status.
Much, but not all, of the specific issues discussed during the meeting were the result of information on their SPS measures that Member governments were notified through the WTO.
It was reported to the Committee at the end of September this year, 10,366 ordinary or emergency measures had been reported door knob protector since 1 January 1995, the date of creation of the WTO, excluding 2980 additions , modifications or amendments to existing notifications.
Members also provide information on translations of notified measures door knob protector available in the languages of the WTO and, more recently, on the recognition of SPS measures of others as equivalent to their own.
Overall, the volume of notifications was up. In the last update of the report of the Secretariat of the WTO notifications (G/SPS/GEN/804/Rev.4) door knob protector it is reported that the highest number of notifications recorded in a single year to date (1 436) has been in 2010.
Since 1995, the United States showed that more than