Health

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Health Consumer Protection Directorate General

• Better Training for Safer Food
• 2007

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International Agreements
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International Agreements

• Why have International Agreements
• Directive 91/496 Article 16
• No mention of Agreements
• Directive 97/78 Article 10.6
• Reductions in frequency of checks may be
  negotiated

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International Agreements

• Less frequent checks possible
• Must satisfy Article 10.3 basic parameters
• Originate in countries or regions with
  satisfactory health guarantees
• On a list insofar as required under Community
  Legislation
• Import certificates have been issued

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International Agreements

• Directive lays down 100 physical checks for all
  products
• Less frequent checks possible
• Under certain conditions and
• In the light of results of previous checks
• On products for which import conditions are
  harmonised.

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International Agreements

• Derogations I based upon
• Guarantees from third country
• Animal Health situation in country
• General Health situation
• Health monitoring measures
• Veterinary Services

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International Agreements

• Derogations based upon II
• Standards of production hygiene
• Outcome of Community Inspections
• Outcome of import checks carried out
• Analysis of the risks
• From this Developed CD 94/360/EC
• Is this truly Risk Based ?
• Leads to certain anomalies

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International Agreements

• Enlargement(s) requirements
• Bi lateral international agreements to be
  withdrawn
• Import Policy harmonised
• Export Policy still in individual Member States
  hands
• Traditional view now being challenged by events

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OIE Recognition of FMD-Free Countries
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• Risks for introduction of FMD
• Legal imports of animals with undetected
  infection
• Legal imports of undetected infected meat or meat
  products
• Illegal imports of infected meat or meat products
  (e.g. bush meat)
• Windborne virus particles
• Fomites

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International Agreements

• Simplest EFTA EC
• Norway
• All products
• Note no Customs Union
• Iceland
• Fish, Fishery Products, Aquaculture products,
  Fish meal
• Possible rethink from Iceland
• Process Bureaucratic with delays

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International Agreements

• Little country agreements
• Andorra
• As EFTA but quite separate
• San Merino
• Very limited scope
• Faeroe Islands
• Individual agreement Amended.
• Liechtenstein
• Joined Switzerland

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International Agreements

• USA EC
• Comprehensive on Paper
• Problems of recognition of regional disease free
  status
• Trade limited Exports gtImports
• Import procedures standard
• Certification anomalies

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International Agreements

• Canada EC
• Very successful agreement
• Are specific requirements for different import
  procedures
• CD 2005/306/EC OJ L98 16.4.2005
• 10 identity checks for POAO
• 10 identity checks semen embryos and ova

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International Agreements

• Chile - EC
• OJ L 352 30.12.2002
• No changes to import procedures
• Import checks set out in Annex VII
• Priority Sectors for equivalence to be
  recognised are set down.
• Mostly HC products

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International Agreements

• New Zealand - EC
• Oldest, perhaps most comprehensive
• Question mark over ID Checks
• Reduced frequency of Physical checks.
• Latest levels set down OJ L 338 5.12.2006
• Annex VIII
• Fees out of date no agreement yet reached on
  updating these
• Some BIPs operating at a loss

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International Agreements

• Russia EC
• Not an agreement as such
• Memorandum of understanding
• Covers Veterinary exports to Russia
• Supplementary Annex on Transport of animal
  products to Russia and
• Transit of products through EU territory to
  Russia
• Russia has access to TRACES

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International AgreementsConclusions

• Commission putting a lot of work into these
  agreements, likely to have more
• Risk based checks can be introduced by these
  agreements
• May see more of this in future
• Harmonised position on Exports introduced in
  principle by Russsia
• Any review of 97/78 will have to consider both
  animal and public health aspects of checks and
  levels of checks in face of increasing trade

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