How does the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures [SPS agreement] facilitate “safe trade”?
“The SPS Agreement deals specifically with the issue of measures to protect plant, animal and human health and life, and represents a blueprint for establishing fair measures as well as for evaluating the measures of others. It is structured around several key principles, starting with the right of a country to put protective measures in place. But it also obliges them to demonstrate that the measures are necessary and technically justified – they can only be maintained on the basis of scientific principles and evidence considered in the framework of a systematic evaluation process known as ‘risk assessment’. Those that are found inappropriate should be modified. Transparency in the development and implementation of measures is critical throughout.
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