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Managing SPS Informationto Maximize Stakeholder Interest and Involvement
Special Meeting on the Implementation of the SPS
Agreement
Geneva, 31 March 2006
March 31, 2006
“Model Arrangements for SPS Stakeholder Involvement at the
National Level” (STDF19)
March 31, 2006
PurposeImprove SPS-related information flow as well as information sharing between the public and private sector…
…with positive spin-offs for market access
March 31, 2006
The present situation in Sri Lanka
NCP: Directorate of Seed Production and Plant
Quarantine (Ministry of Agriculture)
NCP: Directorate of Animal Production
and Health(Ministry of Agriculture)
NEP and NCP: Directorateof Food Safety
(Ministry of Health, Nutrition, and Welfare)
NNADepartment of
Commerce (Ministry of Trade
and Commerce)
CODEX
IPPC
OIE
WTO
Private Stakeholders
March 31, 2006
Sri Lanka Portal for Food and Agricultural
Standards
First step in improving SPS information management in Sri Lanka=>national portal
NCP: Directorate of Seed Production and Plant
Quarantine (Ministry of Agriculture)
NCP: Directorate of Animal Production
and Health(Ministry of Agriculture)
NEP and NCP: Directorateof Food Safety
(Ministry of Health, Nutrition, and Welfare)
NNADepartment of
Commerce (Ministry of Trade
and Commerce)
CODEX
IPPC
OIE
WTO
EU NCP: Ministry of Fisheries
and Natural Resources
March 31, 2006
Global Reference Portal
for SPS
March 31, 2006
Sri Lanka Portal for Food and Agricultural Standards
Second step in improving SPS information management in Sri Lanka=>web-based network
NCP: Directorate of SeedProduction and Plant
Quarantine (Ministry of Agriculture)
NCP: Directorateof Animal Production
and Health(Ministry of Agriculture)
NEP and NCP: Directorate of Food Safety
(Ministry of Health, Nutrition, and Welfare)
NNADepartment of
Commerce (Ministry of Trade
and Commerce)
CODEX
IPPC
OIE
WTO Tea Cluster
Coconut Cluster
Spice/Nut Cluster
Fruit & Vegetable Cluster*
Ornamental Horticulture
Cluster*
Organic Products Cluster
Poultry/Egg Cluster*Live and
Processed Fish Cluster*
EU NCP: Ministry of Fisheries
and Natural Resources
Agribusiness
Livestock and Meat Cluster*
Inputs Cluster*
Processed Food Cluster
*new websites
March 31, 2006
Host Association for Sri Lanka
March 31, 2006
CAPECOCereals and Oilseeds
CADELPACotton
CEPACOOPFruits and Vegetables
ARPLivestock
CEPALProcessed Foods
Paraguayan Portalfor Food and Agricultural
Standards
First and Second Steps for Paraguayan National Information System for Food & Agricultural
Standards
SENAVENEP and
Nat’l Contact Point for Plant Heath
SENACSANEP and
Nat’l ContactPoint for
Animal Heath
INTNNEP for
Food Safety
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN
RELATIONS
NNA
CODEX
IPPC
OIE
WTO
FECOPRODCooperatives
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Regional Reference Portal
for SPS
March 31, 2006
Challenges in gaining buy-in
• Breaking down walls within the public sector
• Getting the public sector to reach out to private
• Convincing the public sector players to give up control over portal, for their own long-term benefit
• Convincing the private sector that public will really work with them
• Deciding which private entities to include as leaders
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Strengths of Internet-based solutions
• Can serve as one-stop shop for information needs and communicate breaking news
• Can become a virtual gathering place strengthening cohesion among stakeholders
• Can serve as vehicle for discussing issues, presenting positions, furthering consensus
• Can handle multiple languages
• Delivers documents in electronic (i.e.,manipulable) form
• Has a very low cost of adding, deleting or updating documents
• Has zero marginal cost to provider for each hit
• Relatively low cost of access and use to userscontinued
March 31, 2006
Weaknesses of Internet-based solutions
• Will have a relatively high set-up and maintenance cost and may not be easy to sustain in a financial and technical sense;
• Still excludes a significant (although declining) share of stakeholders;
• Has trouble capturing the necessary volume of information and keeping it up to date
• Will find it difficult to handle confidential or limited-audience data such as private standards and may find it hard to charge user fees because much of the content is public data or concerns public goods continued
March 31, 2006
Implications for Implementation of the SPS Agreement? Its too soon to tell, but it mayEnhance relevance of WTO notifications as perceived by some public
and most private stakeholders
Facilitate broader dissemination of information from Three Sisters to relevant subsectors and industry players
Serve to place official grades and standards in proper place vis-à-vis private standards
Stimulate greater involvement of private sector
Facilitate more commentary on proposed standards, rules and SPS actions at borders
Provide a way to achieve more efficiency and sustainability in the handling of SPS-related information
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