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Dr Sarah Kahn
International
Trade Department
The OIE’s work in
setting sanitary
standards
IPC Symposium
February 2007
Geneva
Topics for discussion
• OIE Structure and process
• Terrestrial Code Standards
• Work program
OIE: an intergovernmental
organisation (1924)
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5 Regions; 168 Member Countries
29 Americas; 51 Africa; 49 Europe; 13 Middle East; 26 Asia.
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE
Administrative Commission
Director General
Specialist Commissions
Terrestrial Code, Laboratories,
Aquatic Animals, Scientific
Regional Commissions
Africa, Americas, Europe, Asia- Far East and Oceania,
Middle East
Human Resources and Budget
Management Unit
Accounts Unit
World Animal Health and
Welfare Fund Coordination
Collaborating
Centres
Reference
Laboratories
Central Bureau
Deputy Director General
Deputy Director General
Administration, Finances, Human Resources
Animal Health and International Standards
Administrative and
Management Systems
Department
International Trade
Department
Regional Activities
Department
Scientific and
Technical
Department
ad hoc Groups
Working Groups
Animal Health
Information
Department
Publications
Department
Regional Representations
Updating
International
Standards
COMMITTEE,
COMMISSIONS,
DELEGATES
PROBLEM
Specialist
Commissions
Review
Advice of experts or other
Specialist Commissions
Draft text
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DELEGATES
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COMMITTEE
OIE INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
Adoption
Terrestrial Code Standards
To facilitate trade in animals & products
while avoiding unjustified trade barriers
To support countries in the control of
animal diseases and prevention of
zoonoses.
Terrestrial Code standards
• Zoning and compartmentalisation
• Populations of different animal health status
• Defined by (primarily) geographical features or (primarily)
management controls
• Relationship between Veterinary Administrations in exporting
country and importing country
• Safe commodities
• BSE: Milk and dairy products are listed as safe commodities
Terrestrial Code standards
Equivalence (chapter 1.3.6)
• The Code recognises equivalence by recommending
alternative sanitary measures for many diseases and
pathogenic agents:
- e.g. by enhanced surveillance and monitoring; by the use
of alternative test, treatment or isolation procedures, or by
combinations of the above.
• To facilitate the judgement of equivalence, Member Countries
should base their sanitary measures on OIE standards,
guidelines and recommendations.
• Relevance of risk analysis
Terrestrial Code Standards
• FMD (chapter 2.2.10 and appendix 3.6.2)
• Free country or zone
• Free herd plus heat treatment (UHT or HTST)
• BSE (chapter 2.3.13)
• Milk and dairy products are listed as safe commodities
• Tuberculosis (chapter 2.3.3)
• Herd freedom or pasteurisation or other treatment specified
by Code
• Rinderpest (chapter 2.2.12)
• See FMD (above)
Work program
• Terrestrial Code
• Compartmentalisation
• Continuing collaboration with Codex
• Consideration of development of commodity standards
• Animal Production Food Safety Working Group
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Animal identification and traceability
Veterinary certificates
Animal Feeding
Good farming practice
• Animal Welfare Working Group
• Livestock production systems
World Organisation for Animal Health
12 rue de Prony
75017 Paris, France
Tel: 33 (0)1 44 15 18 88
Fax: 33 (0)1 42 67 09 87
Email: [email protected]
http://www.oie.int