Common Contracts
1 similar Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures contracts
EDITORIALAgreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures • January 17th, 2012
From the SPS standpoint, the last three months have been quite productive as several prominent steps have been taken in Pakistan, both at national and provincial level to address eliminating sanitary and phytosanitary obstacles to trade barriers which have emerged as a consequence to “Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures”. This Agreement, which comes under the WTO, sets constraints on member-states' measures relating to food safety per se, (for example bacterial contaminants, pesticides, inspection and labeling) as well as animal and plant health (phytosanitary) measures with respect to imported pests and diseases. A most notable development in this regard is perhaps the creation of a full-fledged Ministry of Food Security and Research at the Federal level remaining, however, within the ambit of constitutional provisions of Federal Legislative List (FLL). One of the stated objectives of this creation is to spearhead the role of agriculture in the exports
