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Trade , Environment and Development
Environmental requirements and market access

Module 3
2

Background
  • Environmental and health-related requirements are
    becoming more frequent and/or more stringent in
    certain (but not all) sectors of export interest
    to Viet Nam
  • Non compliance may result in trade losses
  • Viet Nam needs to strengthen its abilities to
    respond to such requirements
  • Viet Nam also needs to reflect its objectives and
    concerns in international debates

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
Development, Slide 2
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Objectives of this module
  • To assist the Government of Viet Nam, VIETRADE
    and others in enhancing understanding of
    environment-and health-related requirements in
    export markets
  • To assist Viet Nam in identifying policies aimed
    at strengthening capacities to respond to such
    requirements
  • To examine relevant WTO rules, in particular the
    SPS and TBT Agreements
  • To identify possible follow-up under CBTF

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
Development Slide 3
4

Structure of this presentation
  • Environment-and health-related requirements in
    international markets
  • Factors determining potential impacts on trade
  • Case study fishery products
  • WTO provisions
  • Possible policy responses
  • Issues for discussion

http//www.vietrade.gov.vn/english/activities/inde
x.shtml
TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
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  • Environment- and health-related requirements

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Development Slide 5
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Environmental requirements and market access
  • Stringent environment- and health related
    requirements
  • Demand for Environmentally preferable products
    (e.g. organic food)
  • Potential trade barriers for developing
    countries?
  • Potential trading opportunities for developing
    countries?
  • (Module 4)

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
Development Slide 6
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Environment- and health related requirements
that may have impacts on exports from Viet Nam
  • Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures
  • Products standards
  • Labels
  • Packaging requirements
  • informal (buyer) requirements imposed by
    companies/importers, including on process and
    production methods

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
Development Slide 7
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SPS measures
  • Governments use a variety of measures to ensure
    that food products are protected from
    contaminants, toxins, and other organisms, which
    may be responsible for diseases
  • Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures are
    also taken to protect human health from pests and
    other diseases, which may be transmitted by
    plants or animals
  • These measures are covered by the SPS Agreement

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
Development Slide 8
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Technical regulations 1
  • Product standards and regulations (which are
    legally binding) can relate to the composition of
    products (e.g. heavy metals content), quality or
    performance (e.g. energy consumption, emissions)
  • Bans on environmental grounds are becoming
    increasingly frequent due to the widespread
    public concern over hazardous substances and
    because it may sometimes be easier to legislate
    bans than technical regulations involving complex
    risk assessment

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
Development Slide 9
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Technical regulations 2
  • Bans on substances that are hazardous to the
    environment or public health may affect trade in
    products containing such substances
  • Such bans are emerging in sectors of export
    interest to developing countries, such as
    textiles, leather and footwear
  • For example, imports of products containing
    pentachlorophenol (PCP) and formaldehyde have
    been restricted in many countries, affecting
    leather exports from countries. Textiles
    containing azo dyes have also been prohibited.

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Development Slide 10
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Product standards and regulations 3
  • Technical regulations and bans of products
    containing hazardous substances are aimed at
    protecting the domestic environment and public
    health in the importing country against the
    harmful effects of the consumption or disposal of
    domestically manufactured and imported products
  • WTO rules allow countries to impose bans as long
    as such bans apply equally to domestic products

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
Development Slide 11
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Packaging requirements
  • Packaging regulations may ban certain materials
    or encourage materials that are
    recyclable/disposable
  • Take-back obligations make producer/importer
    responsible for recycling/disposal of used
    packaging material. In practice, the importer
    rather than the foreign producer is held
    responsible, and service companies can be used
  • Exporters should be aware of the type of
    packaging materials that will be acceptable to
    importers/consumers

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Development Slide 12
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Labelling 1
  • Labels provide information related to inter alia
    health and environmental ingredients, use, and/or
    disposal of products
  • Labels may contain warnings or indicate positive
    environmental characteristics (e.g.
    biodegradable)
  • Labelling may be compulsory or voluntary
  • In certain cases, labels may provide an
    alternative to trade bans (dolphin-free)

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
Development Slide 13
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Labelling 2
  • A key issue is the possible use of labels
    (mandatory or voluntary) in the case of
    genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
  • (see module 5, Biosafety Protocol)
  • Exporters fear that labels may contain GMO may
    have negative affects on consumption
  • Use of labels may also imply a need to segregate
    GMO and non-GMO commodities, which is very costly

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Development Slide 14
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Eco-labelling 1
  • ISO distinguishes three types of eco-labels
  • Type I are multi-issue labels that give
    environment-related information on the overall
    environmental quality or characteristics of a
    product, based on third- party certification.
  • Type II self-declaration environmental claims
    made by manufacturers, importers, distributors or
    retailers
  • Type III labels provide information on a product
    in the form of a bar graph of various indices,
    without any judgement about their relative
    importance

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Development Slide 15
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Eco-labelling 2
  • The trade and environment debate on eco-labels
    has focussed on type I eco-labels
  • Criteria take into account the processes and
    production methods (PPMs) of a product
  • WTO rules, however, are based on the concept of
    like product
  • So far, the effects of type I environmental
    labels on the market place and on international
    trade have been limited, including for imports
    from developing countries

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Development Slide 16
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Global Ecolabelling Network
  • Non-profit organization
  • Collection and dissemination of information on
    ecolabelling programs through Internet
  • Position papers and analyses on issues such as
    ecolabelling and trade, harmonization, etc.
  • Exploring mutual recognition among programs
  • Technical assistance to developing programs
  • Information exchange among members with regard to
    setting criteria, marketing, etc.
  • Publishing of newsletter providing up-to-date
    information
  • http//www.gen.gr.jp/whats.html - top

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Global Ecolabelling Network

http//www.gen.gr.jp/members.html
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Fiscal instruments
  • Product taxes and charges can be based on some
    characteristics of the product (e.g. on the
    sulphur content in mineral oil) or on the product
    itself (e.g. mineral oil).
  • Product charges may be imposed with two aims
  • to raise revenues
  • to discourage the production and consumption of
    products on which the tax is levied
  • Deposit refund schemes these provide an
    incentive for consumers to return used products
    to retailers

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Development Slide 19
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Public procurement
  • Public procurement practices could have effects
    on producers from developing countries if
    products of significant export interest to them
    were to be affected
  • For example, boycotts on tropical timber could
    lead to trade displacements and may require
    expensive counter campaigns
  • Developing country producers and Governments
    might have difficulties in obtaining timely
    information from sub-national entities in order
    to take advantage of trading opportunities or to
    present arguments against boycotts

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Informal requirements
  • Due to increased consumer demand for
    environmentally preferable products importers may
    impose certain environmental requirements upon
    their suppliers in developing countries

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  • Case study
  • fishery products

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Fishery products multiple requirements
concerning
  • Health conditions for the production and placing
    on the market of fishery products
  • Restrictions on veterinary medicines
  • Pesticide residues (maximum pesticide residue
    levels, MRLs), heavy metals, polychlorinated
    biphenyls (PCBs), food additives, radiological
    contamination of foods, irradiation of food
  • Packaging
  • The obligation to introduce a system based on the
    principles of Hazard Analysis Critical Control
    Point (HACCP) in fish processing companies

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
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HACCP 1
  • The Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
    (HACCP) system aims to ensure the safety and
    suitability of food for consumption
  • The HACCP system sets out principles and key
    hygiene controls at each stage of the food chain,
    from primary production to final consumption
  • It enables the user to assess hazards and
    establish control systems that focus on
    prevention rather than relying on testing of the
    end-product

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HACCP 2
  • HACCP is specifically designed for the food and
    food-related industry and focuses on hygiene
  • It is a systematic approach of preventing and
    reducing risks.
  • The HACCP system adopted as one of the
    international standards of the Codex Alimentarius
    has now been implemented in the national
    legislation of a number of countries
  • Will increasingly become a market requirement
    imposed upon developing exporters by their buyers

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
Development Slide 25
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US regulations for fishery products
  • The regulations for the Safe and Sanitary
    Processing and Importing of Fish and Fishery
    Products (21 CFR part 123) require that all
    seafood products have been processed in
    accordance with both the HACCP principles and the
    State sanitary requirements
  • Importers have a responsibility under those
    regulations to verify that the fish and fish
    products they are importing meet those
    requirements

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US - Options for importers 1
  • To show compliance, importers may
  • Import from a country with equivalence or
    compliance agreement with FDA covering fish and
    fishery products (The government of the foreign
    country is operating a regulatory system for
    seafood safety that ensures that the products
    being exported.satisfy U.S.safety concerns)
  • If no such agreement exists, importers must take
    their own "affirmative steps" to verify that the
    products have been processed in accordance with
    FDA regulations."

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US - Options for importers 2
  • In considering whether to accept imports of
    products from processors on foreign
    government-supplied lists as satisfying the
    affirmative step obligation, FDA may consider
    such factors as
  • the length of time since the foreign government
    inspection authority has updated its list
  • the compliance history of the country and the
    individual foreign processor
  • what is known generally about the regulatory
    structure of the foreign country

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EU regulations
  • Directive 91/493/EEC health conditions for the
    production and placing on the market of fishery
    products in general
  • Directive 91/492/EEC stringent conditions for
    live bivalve molluscs
  • All fishery products (whether fresh, chilled,
    frozen, canned, salted, smoked or dried) imported
    from third countries into the EU must come from a
    preparation, processing, packaging or storage
    facility that is approved by the competent body
    in the country concerned

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Characteristics and implications
  • The Directives are based on the HACCP quality
    assurance approach
  • Its main purpose is to avoid systematic
    detention, heavy sampling and laboratory checks
    at the point of entry in the EU
  • Instead, actual control will take place in the
    third country. Implications for developing
    countries
  • Regulations need to be updated
  • Inspection services need to be organized
  • Handling and processing probably need to be
    improved

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Implementation of these two Directives
  • Companies must allow certain investigations and
    must record the data for a supervisory authority
  • Exporting country has to submit complete
    legislation and other documentation to the
    European Commission (EC)
  • EC delegation will visit the country
  • Depending on findings, EC may issue either a
    permanent approval, or a provisional one for a
    limited time

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Experience of Viet Nam
  • EC mission to Viet Nam (5 to 15 October 1998)
  • Legislation in Viet Nam found equivalent to EU
  • Decision 1999/813/EC of 16 November 1999 Viet
    Nam added to Group I (OJ L 315 of 9 December
    1999)
  • Amended by Decision 2000/331/EC of 25 April 2000
    (OJ L 114 of 13 May 2000)
  • NAFIQACEN (National Fisheries Inspection and
    Quality Assurance Center) of the Ministry of
    Fisheries is the competent authority in Viet Nam
  • Around 20 authorized establishments in Viet Nam

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Chloramphenicol detected in shrimps
  • Decision 2001/699/EC of 19 September 2001
  • Presence of chloramphenicol has been detected in
    shrimps imported from Viet Nam (and China)
  • Member States shall, using appropriate sampling
    plans and detection methods, subject each
    consignment of shrimps from Vietnam (and China)
    to a chemical test.
  • Member States shall inform the Commission of the
    test results, using the Rapid Alert System for
    Food
  • Official Journal L 251 of 20 September 2001

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Preliminary conclusions
  • Viet Nam has been able to develop legislation and
    infrastructure to export fishery products and
    live bivalve molluscs
  • Chloramphenicol case shows need for continued
    control to avoid cost increases and uncertainty

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  • Concerns of
  • developing countries

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Concerns and constraints..
  • With regard to standard-setting and
    implementation in major markets
  • Transparency
  • Administrative delays
  • Complexity of standards
  • Threshold limits
  • Constraints at the national level
  • Concerns with international standard-setting and
    trade rules

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Transparency
  • Lack of transparency may create significant
    problems for exporters
  • Some emerging environmental policy instruments do
    not have provisions regarding notification and
    established mechanisms allowing foreign producers
    to comment
  • The strong reliance on voluntary measures may
    raise questions as to accountability in the
    context of international trade rules

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Becoming an approved exporter can take a lot of
time
  • In several sectors (e.g. fishery products or
    honey), imports are allowed only from countries
    that are on a list of approved countries,
  • Exporting country needs time for legislation and
    other steps
  • Importing country needs time to arrange for
    inspection mission and consider its findings
  • In several sectors (e.g. poultry), countries have
    to be declared free of certain diseases
  • It took Costa Rica five years to be declared free
    of Newcaste disease for exports to the US

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
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Stringency of standards
  • Aflatoxin
  • Stringent limit values for aflatoxin levels for
    groundnut imported into EU (more stringent than
    Codex Alimentarius)
  • Maximum Residue Levels (MRL)
  • Threshold for MRLs can be very low and difficult
    to comply with
  • Cuba claims that MRL levels for honey prescribed
    by the EU are so low that it is impossible for
    Cuban laboratories to check them. Honey has to be
    checked in Germany

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Capacities in developing countries
  • Standard setters and standard takers
  • Relevance of standards for domestic conditions
  • Domestic regulatory problems
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
  • Other capacity problems

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SMEs may face particular problems
  • Lack of information, technology and capital
  • Difficulty to achieve economies of scale to make
    the environmental investment profitable
  • Lack of infrastructure and limited physical space
    available for environmental equipment
  • Difficulty to acquire inputs at competitive
    prices
  • Difficulty to ensure that raw materials are
    produced in accordance with environmental
    criteria
  • Costs of testing, inspection, and verification
    may be very high

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Factors influencing impacts on trade and
competitiveness
  • Destination of exports Greater trade effects for
    exports to countries imposing stringent
    environmental regulations
  • Basis for export competitiveness Export
    competitiveness based on low prices may be more
    affected by the need to comply with environmental
    requirements
  • Firm size SMEs may find it particularly
    difficult to comply with environmental
    requirements

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
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Factors influencing impacts on trade and
competitiveness
  • Availability of raw materials specialized
    inputs, technology and information play a key
    role
  • Corporate structure Companies which are
    vertically integrated can exercise some control
    over their suppliers
  • Relationship with foreign firms Strong links
    with foreign firms can facilitate compliance by,
    for instance, increasing access to and transfer
    of environmentally sound technologies

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International standard-setting
  • Negotiations on international standards and
    guidelines are normally open to all interested
    countries, but effective participation requires
    detailed preparation at the national level
  • The participation of developing countries in
    international standard-setting is, in general,
    weak. Standard-setting processes may be
    time-consuming and expensive
  • Improving effective participation of developing
    countries is a key implementation issue

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  • WTO provisions
  • http//www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/envir_e/envir_
    e.htm

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General principles 1
  • Most Favoured Nation principle
  • there should be no discrimination between like
    products of different Member countries. Thus,
    the same regulations should apply to all
    countries
  • The national Treatment principle
  • Imported products must be accorded a treatment no
    less favourable than like domestic products

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General principles 2
  • Like products
  • WTO rules have generally been interpreted as not
    allowing to differentiate products based on their
    processes or production methods (PPMs), unless
    the PPM has an impact on the final
    characteristics of a product
  • Therefore, it is generally considered that WTO
    rules do not permit WTO Members to impose
    restrictions on imports of a product purely on
    the basis of how the product is produced
    (non-incorporated PPMs)

TrainforTrade Trade, Environment and
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Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)
  • The Agreement addresses the variety of measures
    used by governments to ensure that human and
    animal food is safe from contaminants, toxins,
    disease-causing organisms and additives, and
    measures to protect human health from pests or
    diseases carried by plants and animals
  • http//www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/sps_e/sps_e.ht
    m

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SPS Agreement 1
  • SPS measures may only be applied to the extent
    that they are necessary to the protection of life
    of humans and animals or for the protection of
    plant life
  • They should not create arbitrary or unjustified
    discrimination between Member Countries where
    identical or similar conditions exist
  • Member Countries are encouraged to establish
    their measures on the basis of standards,
    directives and international recommendations, in
    order to internationally harmonise sanitary and
    phytosanitary measures

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SPS Agreement 2
  • International standard-setting bodies mentioned
    in the SPS Agreement
  • Codex Alimentarius
  • the International Office of Epizootics
  • the International Plant Protection Convention
  • WTO Members may introduce or maintain stricter
    measures if these are based on a scientific
    justification or if they are the consequence of
    coherent decisions based on an appropriate
    evaluation of risks

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SPS Agreement 3
  • Equivalence
  • Article 4 of the SPS Agreement, which stipulates
    that measures, which are demonstrably equivalent,
    should be acceptable to the importing country
  • Some members of the WTO have interpreted
    equivalence to mean sameness to achieve the
    required level of SPS protection
  • Regional standards
  • Allow countries to export from certain regions
    that are free from diseases

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Special and differential treatment 1
  • Article 10 of the SPS Agreement provides scope
    for the phased introduction of new SPS measures
    and longer periods for compliance for products of
    export interest to developing countries
  • The SPS Committee may also grant developing
    countries and LDCs exceptions from the
    obligations under the agreement based on their
    financial, trade and development needs
  • Active participation of developing country
    Members in international organisations should be
    encouraged

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Special and differential treatment 2
  • Article 9 provides for technical assistance that
    may be awarded for technical expertise, training
    and equipment to adjust and comply with
    appropriate SPS measures
  • Important The above are best endeavour and not
    mandatory provisions

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Enquiry points
  • Each WTO Member country must establish one
    enquiry point to respond to questions from other
    Member countries and provide documentation on
    sanitary and phytosanitary regulations adopted or
    proposed, control and inspection procedures,
    production and quarantine treatment, pesticide
    tolerance, risk assessment procedures, etc.
  • Same requirement exists under the TBT Agreement

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Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)
  • Aims to ensure that technical regulations,
    standards and conformity assessment procedures do
    not create unnecessary obstacles to trade
  • Recognizes the right of WTO Members to protect
    human, animal and plant life or health or the
    environment and to set the level of protection as
    it deems appropriate
  • Encourages countries to use international
    standards where these are available
  • http//www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tbt_e/tbt_e.ht
    m

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Conformity assessment procedures
  • These include, for example control, testing,
    verification and certification
  • The TBT Agreement calls upon WTO Members to
    ensure, whenever possible, that results of
    conformity assessment procedures in other Members
    are accepted, even when those procedures differ
    from their own, provided they are satisfied that
    those procedures offer an assurance of conformity
    with applicable technical regulations or
    standards equivalent to their own procedures.

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  • Policy responses

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At the national level
  • Awareness raising
  • Implementation of national enquiry points
  • Training
  • National and regional standard setting
  • Technology, innovation and enterprise development
  • Support for small and medium sized enterprises
    (SMEs)
  • Institutional changes

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Awareness raising
  • Campaigns to create awareness on food safety
  • Awareness of commercial and environmental
    benefits of environmental quality

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National standard setting
  • Formulation of comprehensive policies on food
    safety and quality
  • Development of national standards compatible with
    both standards in international markets and
    domestic conditions
  • Policy dialogues to develop standards and
    regulations that can be effectively enforced
  • Strengthening domestic infrastructure, e.g. in
    the areas of training, testing and certification

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Technology, innovation and enterprise development
  • New processes for processing and packaging with
    greater emphasis on environment-friendly inputs
  • Promotion of clean technologies (UNEP/UNIDO
    Centres for Clean Technology)
  • Enterprise development to strengthen
    environmental quality of products and production
    processes and gain international competitiveness
  • Business partnerships

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Support for SMEs
  • Facilitate the registration of SMEs
  • Improve the provision of timely and accurate
    information to SMEs
  • Improve the availability of environment-friendly
    input materials for SMEs
  • Promote partnerships

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Institutional measures
  • Policy dialogues and co-ordination, involving the
    private sector
  • Sharing of information
  • National and regional networks of laboratories
  • Regional testing and certification bodies

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At the multilateral level
  • Transparent and participatory preparation of
    standards
  • International standard setting processes
  • Technical assistance
  • Multilateral aid agencies

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In the area of trade rules
  • Technical assistance under trade rules
  • Mutual recognition of conformity assessment and
    certification procedures
  • Equivalence

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  • UNCTAD/CBTF contribution and possible follow up

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Ongoing UNCTAD initiatives
  • Project Standards and Trade
  • Funded by International Development Research
    Centre (IDRC), Canada
  • Regional scoping studies
  • Africa
  • Central America
  • South Asia
  • Overall scoping paper
  • Workshop (2002)
  • UNCTAD/UNDP Project on Trade and
  • Environment Policy implications for Viet Nam

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  • Issues for discussion

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Experiences of Viet Nam?
  • Has Viet Nam faced significant health and/or
    environmental requirements in overseas markets?
  • How has Viet Nam responded to such requirements?

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What should be priorities for Viet Nam?
  • Creating awareness of health and environmental
    requirements in international markets among
    government ministries, producers and others?
  • Improving information flows?
  • Improving institutional capacity to develop
    and/or strengthen domestic standards and
    infrastructure?
  • Exploring regional cooperation?
  • Enhancing understanding of WTO rules, in
    particular the SPS and TBT Agreement?
  • Participating effectively in international
    standard-setting and other international debates?
  • Others?

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Possible follow up under CBTF?
  • What issues should be further elaborated in
    future training activities?
  • How could CBTF assist Viet Nam
  • Sector-specific studies?
  • Training?
  • Policy dialogues?
  • Regional initiatives?
  • Support to Vietnams effective participation in
    international standard-setting?

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  • End
  • Thank you very much

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