WHAT IS THE WTO SPS AGREEMENT?Wto SPS Agreement • May 14th, 2020
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:
WTO SPS Agreement: Relevant Provisions (Article 6) and SPS Committee Guidelines (G/SPS/48)Wto SPS Agreement • November 6th, 2019
▪ establishes a multilateral framework of rules and disciplines to guide development, adoption, and enforcement of sanitary and phytosanitary measures
WTO’s SPSWto SPS Agreement • November 15th, 2019
The WTO SPS Agreement sets out the basic rules for food safety and animal and plant health standards. It aims to strike a balance between WTO members’ rights to protect human, animal or plant life or health, and their obligation not to restrict trade more than necessary. Given the technical and costly nature of some of these measures, certain sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) requirements imposed by importing members could be difficult to meet for LLDCs, for whom agricultural products might represent an important part of their exports.
Facilitating Safe TradeWto SPS Agreement • February 8th, 2018
Facilitating Safe TradeWto SPS Agreement • October 12th, 2017
