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Book (series)The SPS Agreement and biosafety 2007
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No results found.This paper was presented at a regional training workshop on drafting secondary biosafety regulations, organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) (10-13 October 2006, Hanoi, Vietnam). The purpose of the workshop was to enable key government staff from Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to draft secondary biosafety regulations that are consistent with inter alia the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (the Protocol) and other internatio nal treaties and arrangements. The paper includes a general introduction to the World Trade Organization (WTO), its objectives, functions and structure, and to the relevant WTO Agreements in the biosafety area, notably the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the SPS Agreement). In addition, it presents the findings of the Panel Report in the recent Biotech dispute and identifies some areas of potential conflict between the Protocol and WTO rules, in particular th e SPS Agreement. The concluding remarks contain some practical considerations on drafting biosafety legislation. -
Book (series)The impact of agriculture-related WTO agreements on the domestic legal framework in Tanzania 2006
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No results found.The importance of this assignment arises from the fact that a significant part of the Tanzania trade is basically agricultural and there is currently a growing demand of her agricultural exports1. Thus, understanding a legal and institutional environment under which the agricultural trade is operated is an important strategy for maximizing the benefits of the country’s good land and climatic attributes to lower production costs and thereby become competitive, both at regional and international m arkets. Currently Tanzania has a relatively small export volume, although the recent trend has been upwards, with opportunities emerging in certain areas such as horticulture and traditional cash crops2. Other commodities such as fish products already represent a significant source of income from exports to the EU and are successfully meeting the stringent EC regulatory requirements. However, another potentially important sector, meat products, has yet to overcome these regulatory barriers. -
Book (series)The impact of agriculture-related WTO agreements on the domestic legal framework of the Republic of Kazakhstan 2006
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No results found.This section will give an overview of the agricultural sector in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan has traditionally been a surplus producer of agricultural goods. It is the 9th largest country in the world in terms of territory, and has approximately 25 Mio hectares of arable land and 61 million hectares of pastures.1 Traditionally, nomads used steppe land predominantly for cattle growing, during the 1950s and 1960s large acreages of land were brought into grain production and supplied large parts of the Soviet Union.
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