AGREEMENT ON THE APPLICATION OF SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY MEASURESAgreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures • July 17th, 2021
Reaffirming that no Member should be prevented from adopting or enforcing measures necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health, subject to the requirement that these measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between Members where the same conditions prevail or a disguised restriction on international trade;
AGREEMENT ON THE APPLICATION OF SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY MEASURESAgreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures • January 16th, 2010
Reaffirming that no Member should be prevented from adopting or enforcing measures necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health, subject to the requirement that these measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between Members where the same conditions prevail or a disguised restriction on international trade;
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An international treaty of the World Trade Organization The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, also known as the SPS Agreement or just SPS, is an international treaty of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and entered into force with the establishment of the WTO at the beginning of 1995.[1] Broadly, the sanitary and phytosanitary ("SPS") measures covered by the agreement are those aimed at the protection of human, animal or plant life or health from certain risks.[2] Under the SPS agreement, the WTO sets constraints on member-states' policies relating to food safety (bacterial contaminants, pesticides, inspection and labelling) as well as animal and plant health (phytosanitation) with respect to imported pests and diseases. There are 3 standards organizations who set standards that WTO members should base their SPS methodologies on. As provided for in Artic
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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
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WTO members may participate in all councils, committees, etc., except appellate dy, Dispute Settlement panels Textiles Monitoring Body, and multilateral mmittees
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May 1998 The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the "SPS Agreement") entered into force with the establishment of the World Trade Organization on 1 January 1995. It concerns the application of food safety and animal and plant health regulations. This introduction discusses the text of the SPS Agreement as it appears in the Final Act of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, signed in Marrakesh on 15 April 1994. This agreement and others contained in the Final Act, along with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as amended (GATT 1994), are part of the treaty which established the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO superseded the GATT as the umbrella organization for international trade. The WTO Secretariat has prepared this text to assist public understanding of the SPS Agreement. It is not intended to provide legal interpretation of the agreement. Back to top INTRODUCTION The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Agreement Probl
