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SPS AGREEMENT TRAINING MODULE: CHAPTER 4

Implementation — the SPS Committee

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4.1 Introduction

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Background

Introduction to the SPS Agreement

The Key Provisions of the Agreement

Transparency

Implementation — The SPS Committee

Implementation — Dispute Settlement

Developing Countries

Work of other relevant Organizations

Current Issues

Health and other WTO Agreements

Further Information

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The SPS Agreement establishes a Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the “SPS Committee”) to provide a forum for consultations about food safety or animal and plant health measures which affect trade, and to ensure the implementation of the SPS Agreement. It normally meets three times per year at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. The SPS Committee makes its decisions by consensus. At the WTO, consensus is reached “if no Member, present at the meeting when the decision is taken, formally objects to the proposed decision.”

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