实施动植物卫生检疫措施的协议（英文）

AGREEMENT ON THE APPLICATION OF

  SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES

 

Members,

 

       Reaffirming that no Member should be prevented from adopting or enforcing measures necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health, subject to the requirement that these measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between Members where the same conditions prevail or a disguised restriction on international trade; 

       Desiring to improve the human health, animal health and phytosanitary situation in all Members;

 

       Noting that sanitary and phytosanitary measures are often applied on the basis of bilateral agreements or protocols; 

 

       Desiring the establishment of a multilateral framework of rules and disciplines to guide the development, adoption and enforcement of sanitary and phytosanitary measures in order to minimize their  negative effects on trade;

 

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