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EPPO Council Colloquium on the consequences of the SPS Agreement, Berlin (DE), 1998‐09‐17
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
eppo bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1365-2338
pISSN - 0250-8052
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2338.1999.tb00786.x
Subject(s) - phytosanitary certification , technical barriers to trade , transparency (behavior) , quarantine , international trade , tariff , political science , business , international economics , economics , law , economic growth , trade barrier , medicine , pathology
The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been in force since 1995 and is intended to have a considerable effect on the application of phytosanitary measures worldwide, or their modification if they cannot be accepted as technically justified non‐tariff barriers to trade. The EPPO Council Colloquium set out to examine the impact of the agreement on the NPPOs of EPPO countries. The Colloquium reviewed the objectives of the agreement, its relationship with the Principles of Plant Quarantine and the revised IPPC, its practical consequences for an NPPO, the impact of the transparency and notification obligations, the meaning of‘technical justification’in relation to the agreement, the concept of‘appropriate level of protection’and the conclusions to be drawn.