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Training Course in the Field of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS)


The Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) in cooperation with the Arab Organization for Industrial Development and Mining (AIDMO) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), organized on the 10th to the 13th of September 2018 in Cairo, Egypt a workshop on “Sanitary and Phytosanitary" (SPS).The participants were 40 cadres from the Arab Ministries of Agriculture.

The workshop aimed to inform the Arab members BAFTA by the most important technical aspects of agriculture, including food security, food safety, agricultural and livestock production and its role in global and regional trade, focusing on SPS. Moreover, it defined the relationship between technical international organizations operating in the field of SPS and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Some examples were presented around other similar economic conglomerates like Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Southern African Development Community (SADC). The workshop also reviewed the results of cooperation programs with the Arab Initiative for Food Safety and Trade Facilitation at the Arab level, in particular the results of the efforts of the Arab Group for Food Safety. In addition, establish an SPS system and technical restrictions on trade within the framework of the BAFTA and stress the sustainability of the results of the efforts which were carried out in the field of food safety in the Arab region.

The workshop program included various topics, mainly lectures on the role and studies carried out by of AOAD in SPS. In addition to the training and support to the Arab countries to adopt international standards, coordination mechanisms between AOAD and international technical organizations in the SPS field.

It is worth mentioning that a number of Arab and international organizations and institutions participated in the implementation of the workshop, namely the League of Arab States (Arab Economic Integration Department), the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), the SAFE Project, the WTO SPS Secretariat, the World Organization for Animal Protection (OIE) in addition the representative of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC).

 

 

 

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