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IPCSpecial EventsUS and EU Food Import Requirements – the Case of Green Beans and ShrimpJune 26, 2008 AJF Auditorium, Graduate Institute of International Studies 132 Rue de Lausanne Geneva, Switzerland 13h00-16h00 A forthcoming paper of the IPC argues that there is scope for some better “streamlining” to facilitate the imports of food from developing countries, which is after all what the SPS Agreement exhorts us to do. Facilitating trade from developing countries and ensuring safety of food imports need not to be mutually exclusive. By examining the ways in which the US, EU, and other countries could agree on some shared approach of verifying their compliance with standards or organizing joint inspections, we are in fact meeting both objectives. Even if the mission of food regulators is domestic consumer protection, it should include to the extent possible the development objectives of their national governments. Please join us for a discussion on the findings of this study, entitled, "Reconciling Food Safety with Import Facilitation Objectives: Helping Developing Country Producers Meet U.S. and EU Food Requirements Through Transatlantic Cooperation." Presentations
The IPC wishes to thank the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the German Marshall Fund for their generous support of this project |