Edited by: C. Wolff & A. Hamilton

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
April 2020

330 pages

ISSN: 0253-1933
ISBN: 978-92-95115-56-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20506/rst.issue.39.1.3056

The intention of this issue of the Scientific and Technical Review is to present a series of articles that assist World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and World Trade Organization (WTO) Members and the international community interested in trade in animals and animal products to better understand the frameworks created by the WTO trade agreements and OIE international standards, both through the discussion of the theory underpinning these standards/agreements and by providing examples of their implementation.

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The articles in this issue are available freely by clicking on the titles below.

Contents:

• Preface – Ensuring safe trade in animals and animal products
• Introduction – Ensuring safe trade in animals and animal products
• C. Wolff & I. Calderón – World Trade Organization agreements: a framework for trade in animals and animal products
• G. Stanton & G. Prakash – World Trade Organization disputes related to animal diseases
• A. Gobind Daswani & K. Bucher – International regulatory cooperation: contribution of the OIE and the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and SPS Committee
• K. Bucher, D. Tellechea, F. Caya & J. Stratton – Implementation of OIE international standards: challenges and opportunities for monitoring
• S. Kahn – Animal welfare in the context of World Trade Organization dispute settlement
• A. Hamilton – Facilitating market access: risk assessment, equivalence and regionalisation provisions in the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
• M. Escandor, S. Amurao, I. Santos & C. Benigno – Developing and implementing a protocol for bilateral trade agreements: the Philippines’ shift to a risk assessment policy and meeting its challenges
• H.I. Maldonado Cáceres – Guatemala: efforts to facilitate free trade in an animal health context
• G. Funes, A.L. Merlo, M. Sowul, N. Rendine, X. Melon & A. Marcos – Disease-free zones: bilateral recognition procedure in South America
• F. Meliado & P. Widders – Mutual recognition of veterinary testing and inspection results to facilitate international trade
• H.M. Vesterinen, A.M. Pérez & K.M. Errecaborde – Building capacity for World Trade Organization dispute settlement: piloting polarity mapping for trade relations
• D. Adamson, W. Gilbert, P. Rothman-Ostrow & J. Rushton – The pros and cons of animal health harmonisation
• D. Grace & P. Little – Informal trade in livestock and livestock products
• E. Bonbon – A framework for national official assurance systems with reference to World Organisation for Animal Health standards
• W.T. Jolly – National official assurance systems for international trade in animals and animal products, with reference to the standards of the World Organisation for Animal Health
• M. Maja, L. Janse van Rensburg & C. Gerstenberg – Compartmentalisation: an example of a national official assurance system
• R.K. Aumüller & E. Coetzer – Animal welfare in GLOBALG.A.P.’s integrated farm assurance standard for livestock: an industry perspective and example of a private and globally acting quality assurance system
• M. Tripoli & J. Schmidhuber – Optimising traceability in trade for live animals and animal products with digital technologies
• N. Gibbens – National Veterinary Services and the private sector: the role of private veterinarians, aquatic animal health professionals and veterinary para-professionals in animal health and food safety assurance
• R. Alcala, H. Vitikkala & G. Ferlet – The World Trade Organization Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and veterinary control procedures
• A.Tan – Use of the standards of the World Organisation for Animal Health in veterinary certificates
• D. Grace – Trust in trade: a global perspective on health certification
• B.S. Cooper & P. Loopuyt – eCertification (eCert)
• P. Cáceres, P. Tizzani, F. Ntsama & R. Mora – The World Organisation for Animal Health: notification of animal diseases
• R. Alcala & M.B. Martinez-Hommel – World Trade Organization: notification of sanitary and phytosanitary measures