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1 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev.1 1 February 2018 ( ) Page: 1/1 Committee on Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures SPS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES 1 SEPTEMBER 199 TO 1 DECEMBER NOTE BY THE SECRETARIAT 1 Revision 1. This document provides an update of all the SPS technical assistance (TA) training activities undertaken by the Secretariat from 1 September 199 to 1 December. Detailed information is provided in the annexed table on the TA activities undertaken by the Secretariat for the last three years (2015-) The main objective of SPS technical assistance training activities undertaken by the WTO Secretariat is to increase participants' awareness about Members' rights obligations under the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) its implications for national policymaking. The SPS technical assistance activities also provide an opportunity to inform participants on the discussions held latest documents considered by the SPS Committee. In addition, participants are informed about upcoming SPS workshops technical assistance initiatives available to their countries on SPS matters.. The programme is adapted to take into account the specific needs identified by the countries, the participants' knowledge of the SPS Agreement, the level of development of the countries, any specific concerns relating to the implementation of the SPS Agreement, in order to adequately respond to individual requests. SPS technical assistance training activities typically include presentations on the basic provisions of the SPS Agreement, the transparency provisions, specific trade concerns raised at the SPS Committee, the WTO dispute settlement SPS-related cases, specific issues such as risk analysis, regionalization or equivalence.. Altogether, 86 SPS training activities have been undertaken by the WTO Secretariat from 1 September 199 to 1 December. In, 22 SPS training activities were undertaken: one regional or sub-regional workshop, 12 national s, eight other activities (including one Thematic SPS workshop held back-to-back with the October SPS Committee meeting) one Advanced SPS Course. 5. The annexed table identifies, for the period 2015-, the type of technical assistance activity, the region venue where it took place, its dates, participating countries, language used, whether the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat participated in the activity. 6. A regional workshop refers to an activity organized by the WTO in which a region or sub-region was invited to participate. A national refers to a WTO-organized activity undertaken at the national level only. The "other" category refers to all other training activities that do not fall under either of the first two categories. This includes other types of SPS-specific activities 1 This document has been prepared under the Secretariat's own responsibility is without prejudice to the positions of Members or to their rights obligations under the WTO. 2 Detailed information on TA activities from previous years is available from the Secretariat upon request. In addition, G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev. includes details of TA activities from 199. The Advanced SPS Course includes a follow-up activity which is held back-to-back with the June/July SPS Committee meeting of the following year.

2 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev organized by the WTO Secretariat as well as activities organized by Members or other bodies in which the WTO Secretariat participated. Training sessions on the SPS Agreement also take place within other general WTO training courses, such as Trade Policy Courses, al Trade Policy Courses, Geneva Weeks, Introduction Courses Agriculture Courses for least-developed countries; which are not included in the list of activities in this document.. The information provided in the Annex below is organized on an annual basis in alphabetical order, based on the region where the activity was undertaken, with the more recent activities listed first. 8. activities are organized in close collaboration with Members, the three international stard-setting bodies referenced in the SPS Agreement (Codex, IPPC OIE), as well as with regional, when appropriate. Since 199, the Codex has participated in 115 activities, while the IPPC secretariat participated in 99 activities the OIE in 11 activities. 9. To meet the dems for more advanced training activities, a three-week Advanced Course on the SPS Agreement has been offered each year since This Advanced SPS Course provides in-depth "hs-on" SPS training. During the course, participants must elaborate an action plan to address identified SPS needs in their countries. The implementation of the action plans is monitored after the course, participants are invited to return to Geneva about eight months after the end of the course to present the achievements reached through their action plans. The next Advanced SPS Course is scheduled for October 2018, it will be held in Spanish. 10. In addition to the above-mentioned training activities, the WTO offers an E- Learning course on the SPS Agreement. The course is offered each year in all three official languages of the WTO: English, French Spanish. 11. Since 2010, Members have been informed at the beginning of each year of all SPS-related planned technical assistance activities, interested officials are invited to submit applications for specific events. In, this was done via document G/SPS/GEN/99/Rev.. The Codex, IPPC OIE secretariats also drew attention to this information on SPS training activities in their respective meetings to encourage interested cidates to apply. Almost 00 applications were received for SPS-related activities (aside from national s E-Learning courses) offered by the WTO Secretariat in. For the Advanced SPS Course, cidates were required to have successfully completed the WTO E-Learning course on the SPS Agreement at the time of their application. All applicants were requested to provide information that indicated how their professional responsibilities were related to the SPS Agreement, the endorsement of Members' permanent representations to the WTO was sought before the final selection of participants. The Secretariat endeavoured to ensure that the selected participants represented a balance of officials with responsibilities in their national administrations' food safety, animal health or plant protection areas, as well as SPS enquiry points national notification authorities, other officials responsible for the coordination of WTO trade issues SPS matters within their governments. 12. The Secretariat considers that this more "dem-driven" approach, based on applications from interested officials, together with the pre-requisite of completion of the SPS E-Learning course, has resulted in a more homogeneous higher level of background knowledge by participants, permitted the delivery of more advanced effective training activities since The Secretariat will again organize its 2018 training activities in this manner, as indicated in document G/SPS/GEN/99/Rev Chart 1 below lists the breakdown of the type of activities undertaken in Chart 2 shows the number of activities per year. See Chart for a breakdown of participants who have attended the Advanced SPS Course by region.

3 Number of activities Number of Activities G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev Chart 1 - Training Activities in Seminars (Sub) al s Other Advanced SPS Course Chart 2 - Training Activities per year from 199 to Advanced SPS Course Other (Sub) al

4 Activities G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev Chart presents a breakdown of the type of activities undertaken since 199: 15 national s, 95 regional or sub-regional workshops, 10 "other" activities thirteen Advanced Courses on the SPS Agreement. Chart - Type of Training Activities from 199 to Advanced SPS Course % Other 2% Seminar 5% (Sub) al 25% 15. Chart shows the number type of TA activities per region, while Chart 5 presents the total number of participants who have attended training activities per region per type of activity. Overall, a total of 1,29 people have been given training by the WTO Secretariat on the SPS Agreement since 199. Chart - Training Activities per from 199 to Africa Arab Middle East Countries 9 the Pacific 8 15 Central Eastern Europe Central Asia 1 Europe 6 Latin the 1 North 1 1 Global (Sub) al Other Advanced SPS Course

5 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev Chart 5 - per from 199 to,000,500,000 2,500 1,8 1,86 2,0 2,000 1,500 1, ,1 Africa Arab Middle East Countries 60 the Pacific Central Europe Eastern Europe Central Asia 1,00 Latin the 50 North 99 Global (Sub) al Other Advanced SPS Course 16. As shown in Chart 6, 1% of the beneficiaries of all training activities undertaken by the Secretariat have been from least-developed countries (LDCs), 6% from developing countries, 2% from developed countries. Chart 6 - Breakdown of country participation from 199 to Developing Countries 6% LDCs 1% Developed Countries 2%

6 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev Chart presents a breakdown by region of participants who have attended the Advanced SPS Course. Over the period 2005 to, 10 officials have participated in the Advanced SPS Course from the following regions: 0% from Africa; 28% from Latin the ; 1% from Pacific; 11% from Central Eastern Europe, Central the Caucasus; % from Arab Middle East countries. Chart Breakdown of participants in the Advanced SPS Course by region from 2005 to Latin & 28% Africa 0% Central Eastern Europe, Central the Caucasus 11% Asia & Pacific 1% Arab & Middle East % 18. Chart 8 presents the language breakdown of all training activities that have been undertaken. Overall, 6% of activities have been conducted in English, 18% in Spanish, 1% in French. The remaining 6% have been undertaken in other languages, including Arabic, Portuguese, Turkish Russian. 5 Chart 8 - breakdown of Training activities from 199 to English 6% Other 6% Spanish 18% French 1% 5 For all the training activities undertaken in other languages, at least one of the official WTO languages was also used (with the exception of activities conducted in Portuguese).

7 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev ANNEX SPS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES (1 JANUARY 2015 TO 1 DECEMBER ) the stard-setting Africa Liberia Monrovia 22/0/ 2/0/ Liberia 6 No No No English Africa Other Switzerl Geneva 20/0/ 20/0/ Arab Middle East Countries Central Eastern Europe, Central the Caucasus Central Eastern Europe, Central the Caucasus Benin, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Guinea, Madagascar, Senegal, Togo, Zambia Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Seychelles 12 No No No English Jordan Amman 02/10/ 0/10/ Jordan 2 No No No English Bangladesh Dhaka 20/11/ 22/11/ Bangladesh 0 No No No English Pakistan Bhurban 09/5/ 12/5/ Pakistan 56 No No No English Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 05/12/ 0/12/ Papua New Guinea 0 No No No English Sri Lanka Colombo 21/02/ 2/02/ Sri Lanka No No No English Other Switzerl Geneva 2/01/ 2/01/ Afghanistan 1 No No No English Kazakhstan Astana 2/0/ 25/0/ Kazakhstan 50 No No No English Montenegro Podgorica 0/10/ 05/10/ Montenegro 9 No No No English

8 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev the stard-setting Latin Latin Latin Latin Latin (Sub) al Argentina Buenos Aires 21/11/ 2/11/ Argentina 15 No No No Spanish Colombia Bogotá 21/11/ 2/11/ Colombia No No No Spanish Paraguay Asunción 02/05/ 0/05/ Paraguay No No No Spanish Peru Lima 01/0/ 0/0/ Peru No No No Spanish Costa Rica San José 20/06/ 2/06/ Costa Rica No No No Spanish Global Other Sweden Stockholm 15/02/ 1/02/ Global Other Sweden Stockholm 26/0/ 28/0/ Sudan Global Other Sweden Stockholm 20/09/ 21/09/ Sudan Global Other Sweden Stockholm 25/10/ 2/10/ Global Other Sweden Stockholm 08/11/ 10/11/ Global Advanced SPS Course Switzerl Geneva 2/10/ 10/11/ Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia Afghanistan, The Gambia, Lesotho, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Sudan, Tanzania Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanese Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanese Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanese Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia South Africa, Swazil, Zimbabwe Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanese Morocco, Tunisia Belarus; Belize; Botswana; Brazil; China; Ghana; Guyana; Malaysia; Maldives; Moldova, Republic of; Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of; South Africa; Thail; Russian Federation; Viet Nam 2 No No No English 28 No No No English 25 No No No English 2 No No No English 2 No No No English 2 Yes Yes Yes English

9 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev the stard-setting Global Thematic SPS Switzerl Geneva 0/10/ 1/10/ Burkina Faso, Chad, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Lao People's Mali, Mozambique, Sudan, Uga Cameroon; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Côte d'ivoire; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Ghana; Indonesia; Jordan; Kyrgyz Republic; Lebanese Republic; Malaysia; Mauritius; Mexico; Moldova, Republic of; Paraguay; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Chinese Taipei; Thail; Trinidad Tobago; Turkey 5 No No No 2016 Africa Comoros Moroni 0/11/ /11/2016 Comoros 6 Yes Yes Yes French 2016 Africa Egypt Cairo 19/09/ /09/2016 Egypt 50 No No No English 2016 Africa Guinea Conakry 18/0/ /0/2016 Guinea 1 No No No French 2016 Africa Madagascar Antananarivo 05/0/2016 0/0/2016 Madagascar 50 No No No French 2016 Africa Uga 1/12/ /12/2016 Uga 26 No No No English 2016 Africa Other Switzerl Geneva 1/0/2016 1/0/2016 Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Comoros, Côte d'ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, 16 No No No English French The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Madagascar, Senegal, Togo, Zambia Nigeria, Seychelles 2016 Arab Middle East Countries (Sub) al Kuwait, the State of Kuwait City 25/01/ /01/2016 Bahrain, Kingdom of; Egypt; Jordan; Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of; Sudan; Syrian Arab Republic; Tunisia; United Arab Emirates 20 Yes Yes Yes English 2016 Arab Middle East Countries (Sub) al United Arab Emirates Dubai 0/10/2016 0/10/2016 Bahrain, Kingdom of; Kuwait, the State of; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of; United Arab Emirates; Yemen English, French Spanish 16 No No No English

10 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev the stard-setting 2016 Asia (Sub) al 2016 Asia (Sub) al 2016 Central Eastern Europe, Central the Caucasus 2016 Central Eastern Europe, Central the Caucasus 2016 Latin 2016 Latin Singapore Singapore 28/11/2016 0/11/2016 Cambodia, Lao People's Myanmar Singapore Singapore 0/11/ /12/2016 Cambodia, Lao People's Myanmar Bhutan; Brunei Darussalam; Fiji; Hong Kong, China; India; Korea, Republic of; Macao, China; Malaysia; Maldives; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore; Samoa; Sri Lanka; Chinese Taipei; Thail; Vanuatu; Viet Nam Bhutan; Brunei Darussalam; Fiji; Hong Kong, China; India; Korea, Republic of; Macao, China; Malaysia; Maldives; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore; Samoa; Sri Lanka; Chinese Taipei; Thail; Vanuatu; Viet Nam No No No English 0 No No No English Iran Tehran 18/0/ /0/2016 Iran No No No English Tajikistan Dushanbe 28/09/ /09/2016 Tajikistan 2 No No No English Guatemala Guatemala 08/11/ /11/2016 Guatemala 55 No No No Spanish City Panama Panama City 19/0/ /0/2016 Panama 1 No No No Spanish

11 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev the stard-setting 2016 Global Advanced SPS Course 2016 Global Thematic SPS Switzerl Geneva 1/10/2016 0/11/2016 Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Guinea, Haiti, Mali, Rwa, Senegal, Togo Switzerl Geneva 2/10/ /10/2016 Angola, Chad, Rwa, Solomon Isls, Sudan, Uga, Vanuatu 2016 Global Other Switzerl 11/0/ /0/2016 Malawi, Tanzania Algeria, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'ivoire, Gabon, Libya, Mauritius, Morocco, Tunisia Argentina; Bhutan; Cameroon; Costa Rica; Georgia; Hong Kong, China; Israel; Jamaica; Jordan; Kenya; Lebanese Republic; Malaysia; Peru; Sri Lanka; Suriname; The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Turkey; Zimbabwe Bahamas; Belarus; Bolivia, Plurinational State of; Botswana; Cameroon; China; Ecuador; India; Indonesia; Malaysia; Mexico 25 Yes Yes Yes French 2 Yes Yes Yes English, French Spanish 21 Yes No No English 2016 Global Other Sweden Stockholm 2/02/ /02/2016 Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, 26 No No No English Jordan, Lebanese Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia 2015 Africa Algeria Alger 05/08/ /08/2015 Algeria 9 No No No French 2015 Africa The Gambia Banjul 16/0/ /0/2015 The Gambia 0 No No No English 2015 Africa Sudan Khartoum 02/11/ /11/2015 Sudan No No No English 2015 Africa Uga Jinja 0/08/ /08/2015 Uga 0 No No No English 2015 Africa (Sub) al Kenya Nairobi 05/05/ /05/2015 Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uga 2015 Africa Other Switzerl Geneva 2/0/2015 2/0/2015 Burkina Faso, Central African Madagascar, Mali, Senegal, Zambia Kenya Yes Yes Yes English Botswana, Cabo Verde, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria 11 No No No English

12 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev the stard-setting 2015 Africa Other Switzerl Geneva 12/10/ /10/2015 Burkina Faso, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Rwa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uga, Zambia 2015 Africa Other Switzerl Geneva 05/05/ /05/2015 Benin, Madagascar, Senegal 2015 Arab Middle East Countries (Sub) al Cabo Verde, Côte d'ivoire, Egypt, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Seychelles, Zimbabwe Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'ivoire, Mauritius, Tunisia 25 No No No English 12 No No No French Oman Muscat 15/11/ /11/2015 Oman 20 No No No English Macao, China Macao 16/09/2015 1/09/2015 Macao, China 25 No No No English Myanmar Nay Pyi Taw 2/02/ /02/2015 Myanmar 50 No No No English Chinese Taipei Taipei 28/0/2015 0/0/2015 Chinese Taipei No No No English Thail Bangkok 10/11/2015 1/11/2015 Bangladesh, Hong Kong, China; 50 Yes Yes No English Bhutan, India; Indonesia; Cambodia, Maldives; Mongolia; Lao People's Pakistan; Philippines; Singapore; Myanmar, Sri Lanka; Nepal Chinese Taipei; Thail; Viet Nam Other Sweden Stockholm 29/0/ /05/2015 Cambodia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka 26 No No No English Lao People's Myanmar, Nepal Other Thail Bangkok 2/11/ /11/2015 Cambodia, Lao People's Myanmar Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thail, Viet Nam Japan 10 No No No English

13 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev the stard-setting 2015 Central Eastern Europe, Central the Caucasus 2015 Latin the 2015 Latin the 2015 Latin the 2015 Latin the 2015 Latin the 2015 Latin the Other (Sub) al 2015 Global Advanced SPS Course Turkmenista n Dominican Republic Ashgabat 29/06/2015 0/06/2015 Turkmenistan 0 No No No English Santo Domingo 01/09/2015 0/09/2015 Dominican Republic 6 No No No Spanish Honduras Tegucigalpa 15/0/2015 1/0/2015 Honduras No No No Spanish Mexico Mexico City 28/0/2015 0/0/2015 Mexico 0 No No No Spanish Paraguay Asunción 1/08/ /09/2015 Paraguay 5 No No No Spanish Trinidad Tobago Port of Spain 02/0/2015 0/0/2015 Trinidad Tobago 9 No No No English Belize Belize City 2/10/2015 0/10/2015 Antigua Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad Tobago Switzerl Geneva 05/10/2015 2/10/2015 Bangladesh, Cambodia, Republic of the Congo, Lao People's Madagascar, Sudan, Tanzania, Uga, Zambia Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Indonesia, Iran, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, Trinidad Tobago, Zimbabwe 1 Yes Yes Yes English 2 Yes Yes Yes English

14 G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev the stard-setting 2015 Global Thematic SPS Switzerl Geneva 12/10/2015 1/10/2015 Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Lao People's Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Tanzania, Togo, Yemen Algeria; Bahrain, Kingdom of; Botswana; Cabo Verde; China; Congo; Costa Rica; Côte d'ivoire; Cuba; Ecuador; Egypt; Ghana; Honduras; India; Indonesia; Kyrgyz Republic; Moldova, Republic of; Morocco; Nigeria; Pakistan; Paraguay, Philippines; Samoa; Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of; Serbia; South Africa; Chinese Taipei; Thail; Tunisia; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates 2015 Global Other Sweden Stockholm 25/02/2015 2/02/2015 Yemen Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanese Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia 2015 Global Other Switzerl Geneva 0/0/2015 0/0/2015 Algeria; Botswana; China; Colombia; Egypt; Hong Kong, China; Jordan; Kenya; Lebanese Republic; Mexico; Russian Federation; Serbia; Chinese Taipei; Tunisia; Ukraine 2015 Global Other Sweden Stockholm 1/10/ /10/2015 Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanese Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia Pol, Spain 50 No No No English 25 No No No English 21 No No No English 2 No No No English