Wto sps agreement text pdfWto SPS Agreement • March 23rd, 2021
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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• Nepal will now be obliged to implement the technical regulations and standards (TRS) related agreements with some transition period.
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Subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on international trade, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any contracting party of measures:
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WTO SPS AGREEMENTWto SPS Agreement • September 30th, 2016
⯈ Defines the basic rules for food safety and animal and plant health standards. All countries maintain measures to ensure that food is safe for consumers, and to prevent the spread of diseases or pests among animals and plants
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