G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev.9  
 
7 March 2014  
(14-1376)  Page: 1/16  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures    
 
  SPS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES 
1 SEPTEMBER 1994 TO 31 DECEMBER 2013 
NOTE BY THE SECRETARIAT1 
Revision 
1.  This document provides an update of all the SPS technical assistance (TA) and training 
activities undertaken by the Secretariat from 1 September 1994 to 31 December 2013. Detailed 
information is provided in the annexed table on th e TA activities undertaken by the Secretariat for 
the last three years (2011-2013).2 
2.  The main objective of SPS technical assistance and training activities undertaken by the WTO 
Secretariat is to increase participants' awareness about Members' rights and obligations under the 
Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Ph ytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) and its 
implications for national policymaking. The SPS technical assistance activities also provide an opportunity to inform participants on the discussions held and latest documents considered by the 
SPS Committee. In addition, participants are informed about upcoming SPS workshops and 
technical assistance initiatives available to their countries on SPS matters. 
3.  The programme and presentations are adapted to take into account specific needs identified by 
the countries, participants' knowledge of the SP S Agreement, the level of development of the 
countries, and any specific concerns relating to the implementation of the SPS Agreement in order to adequately respond to individual requests. SPS technical assistance and training activities typically include presentations on the basic prov isions of the SPS Agreement, the transparency 
provisions, specific trade concerns raised at the SPS Committee, the WTO dispute settlement and 
SPS-related cases, and specific issues such as risk analysis, regionalization and equivalence. 
4.  Altogether, 288 SPS training activities have been undertaken by the WTO Secretariat 
from1 September 1994 to 31 December 2013. In 2013, 20 SPS training activities were 
undertaken: three regional or sub-regional workshops, seven national seminars, nine other activities (including one Special SPS workshop held back-to-back with the October SPS Committee 
meeting) and one Advanced SPS Course.
3 
5.  The annexed table identifies, for the period 2011-2013, the type of activity; the region, venue 
and dates; participating countries; the language used; as well as whether representatives from the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), the World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat participated in the 
activity. 
6.  A regional workshop refers to an activity or ganized by the WTO in which a region or sub-region 
was invited to participate. A national seminar refers to a WTO-organized activity undertaken at the 
national level only. The "other" category refers to all other SPS TA and 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 Secret ariat's own responsibility and is without prejudice 
to the positions of Members or to their rights or obligations under the WTO. 
2 Detailed information on TA activities from prev ious years is available from the Secretariat upon 
request. In addition, G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev.7 includes details of TA activities from 1994. 
3 The Advanced SPS Course includes a follow-up activi ty which is held back-to-back with the June/July 
SPS Committee meeting of  the following year. G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev.9 
 
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  organized by the WTO Secretariat as well as activities organized by Members or other bodies in 
which the WTO Secretariat participated. Other general WTO training courses, such as Trade Policy Courses, Regional Trade Policy Courses, Gene va Weeks and Introduction Courses for Least-
developed Countries also include sessions on the SPS Agreement; however, they are not included 
in the list of TA activities covered by this document. 
7.  The information provided in the Annex below is organized on an annual basis and in 
alphabetical order based on the region where the activity was undertaken, with the more recent 
activities listed first.  
8.  SPS TA activities are organized in close co llaboration with Members, the three international 
standard-setting organizations referenced in th e SPS Agreement (Codex, IPPC and the OIE), as 
well as with regional organizations, when appropriate. Since 1994, the Codex has participated in 
101 activities, while the IPPC Secretariat participat ed in 86 activities and the OIE in 100 activities. 
9.  To meet the demands for more advanced SPS TA and training activities, a three-week 
Advanced Course on the SPS Agreement has been offered each year since 2005.
4 This Advanced 
SPS course provides in-depth and "hands-on" SPS training, where at the end of 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, and 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 2014, and it will be held in Spanish. 
10.  In addition to the above-mentioned SPS tec hnical assistance and 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 and Spanish.  
11.  Since 2010, Members have been informed at the beginning of each year of all SPS-related 
planned technical assistance activities and interested officials are invited to submit applications for 
specific events. In 2013, this was done via document G/SPS/GEN/997/Rev.3. The Codex, IPPC and OIE secretariats also drew attention to this information on SPS training activities in their respective 
meetings. More than 700 applications were received for the five SPS-related activities, other than 
national seminars and E-Learning, that were offered by the WTO Secretariat in 2013; 182 candidates were selected in total. For the regional workshops, preference was given to candidates that had successfully completed the WTO E-Learning course on the SPS Agreement at 
the time of their application, and was a requirement for candidates for the Advanced SPS course. 
All applicants were requested to provide information that indicated how their professional responsibilities were related to the SPS Agreem ent, and 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 partic ipants represented a balance of officials with 
responsibilities in the food safety, animal health or plant protection area within their national 
administrations, as well as SPS enquiry points and national notification authorities; and other 
officials responsible for coordination of WTO trade issues and SPS matters within their governments.  
12.  The Secretariat considers that this more "demand-driven" approach, based on applications 
from interested officials, together with the pr e-requisite of completion of the SPS E-Learning 
course, has resulted in a more homogeneous and higher level of background knowledge by participants, and permitted the delivery of more advanced and effective training activities since 
2010. The Secretariat will organize its 2014 training activities in this manner, as indicated in 
document G/SPS/GEN/997/Rev.4. 
13.  Chart 1 below lists the breakdown of the ty pe of activities undertaken in 2013 and Chart 2 
shows the number of activities per year. 
                                               
4 See Chart 7 for a breakdown of participants who ha ve attended the Advanced SPS Course by region. G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev.9 
 
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  Chart 1 - SPS Technical Assistance Activities 2013 
 
 
  
Chart 2 - SPS Technical Assistance Activities per year, 1994-2013 
 
 
 
14.  Chart 3 presents a breakdown of the type of activity undertaken since 1994: 127 national 
seminars, 84 regional or sub-regional workshops, 68 "other" activities and nine advanced courses on the SPS Agreement. G/SPS/GEN/521/Rev.9 
 
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  Chart 3 - Type of SPS Technical Assistance Activities, 1994-2013 
 
 
15.  Chart 4 shows the number and type of TA ac tivities per region, while Chart 5 presents the 
total number of participants who have attended SP S TA and training activities per region and per 
type of activity. Overall, a total of 11,274 people have been given training by the WTO Secretariat 
on the SPS Agreement since 1994. 
Chart 4 - SPS Technical Assistance Activities per Region, 1994-2013 
 
 
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  Chart 5 - Participants per Region, 1994-2013 
 
 
 
16.  As shown in Chart 6, 31% of the beneficiarie s of all SPS TA and training activities undertaken 
by the Secretariat have been from least-developed countries (LDCs), 66% from developing countries, and 3% from developed countries. 
Chart 6 - Breakdown of country participation from 1994 to 2013 
  
 
 
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  17.  Chart 7 presents a breakdown by region of participants who have attended the Advanced SPS 
Course. Over the period 2005 to 2013, 214 officials have participated in the Advanced SPS Course from the following regions: 38% from Africa; 26% from Latin America and the Caribbean; 19% 
from Asia and Pacific; 10% from Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus; and 
4% from Arab and Middle East countries. 
Chart 7 – Breakdown of participants in the Advanced SPS Course by region 
from 2005 to 2013 
 
18.  Chart 8 presents the language breakdown of al l SPS TA and training activities that have been 
undertaken. Overall, 63% of activities have been conducted in English, 18% in Spanish, and 12% 
in French. The remaining 7% have been undertaken in other languages, including Arabic, 
Portuguese, Turkish and Russian.5 
Chart 8 - Language breakdown of SPS Te chnical Assistance activities - 1994-2013 
 
 
                                               
5 For all the SPS TA and training activities undertaken  in other languages, at least one of the official 
WTO languages was also used (with the except ion of activities conducted in Portuguese).  
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SPS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES 
(1 JANUARY 2011 TO 31 DECEMBER 2013) 
 
Year Region SPS TA 
Activity Host Location From To Participants Participants Participation of 
representatives from 
the standard-setting 
organizations Language 
LDCs Developing Developed Codex OIE IPPC 
2013 Africa National 
seminar Zimbabwe Harare  28/11/2013  29/11/2013   Zimbabwe   25 No No No English 
2013 Africa (Sub) 
Regional 
Workshop Gabon Libreville  24/09/2013  27/09/2013  Benin, Burkina 
Faso, Burundi, 
Chad, Guinea, 
Madagascar, Mali, 
Senegal and 
Togo. 
AU-funded 
participants: 
Central African 
Republic, 
Democratic 
Republic of the 
Congo, Djibouti, 
Guinea-Bissau 
and Niger. Cameroon, 
Comoros, Congo, 
Côte d'Ivoire, 
Gabon, Morocco, 
Tunisia.  
AU-funded 
participants: Sao 
Tomé and 
Principe.  57 Yes Yes Yes French 
2013 Africa Other South Africa Pretoria  12/09/2013  13/09/2013  Democratic 
Republic of the 
Congo, Lesotho, 
Malawi, 
Mozambique, 
Tanzania, Zambia Botswana, 
Namibia, 
Seychelles, 
South Africa, 
Swaziland, 
Zimbabwe  46 No No No English, 
French 
2013 Africa Other Zimbabwe Harare  25/11/2013  27/11/2013  The Gambia, 
Lesotho,  
Malawi, 
Mozambique, 
Rwanda, Sierra 
Leone, 
Tanzania, 
Uganda,  
Zambia Botswana,  
Egypt,  
Ghana,  
Kenya,  
Nigeria,  
Swaziland, 
Zimbabwe  40 No No No English 
2013 Arab and 
Middle 
East 
Countries Regional 
Workshop United Arab 
Emirates Abu Dhabi  04/11/2013  07/11/2013   Bahrain, Egypt, 
Jordan, Lebanon, 
Morocco, Oman, 
Saudi Arabia, 
Sudan, Tunisia, 
United Arab 
Emirates, Yemen  25 Yes Yes Yes English  
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- 8 - Year Region SPS TA 
Activity Host Location From To Participants Participants Participation of 
representatives from 
the standard-setting 
organizations Language 
LDCs Developing Developed Codex OIE IPPC 
2013 Asia and 
the Pacific National 
seminar China Beijing  25/11/2013  27/11/2013   China   30 No No No English 
2013 Asia and 
the Pacific National 
seminar Philippines Quezon City  29/07/2013  29/07/2013   Philippines   31 No No No English 
2013 Asia and 
the Pacific Other Philippines Cebu 31/07/2013  02/08/2013   Philippines   46 No No No English 
2013 Central 
and 
Eastern 
Europe, 
Central 
Asia and 
the 
Caucasus National 
seminar Azerbaijan Baku  12/11/2013  13/11/2013   Azerbaijan   14 No No No English 
2013 Central 
and 
Eastern 
Europe, 
Central 
Asia and 
the 
Caucasus Other Bosnia and 
Herzegovina Sarajevo  23/09/2013  27/09/2013   Bosnia and  
Herzegovina  30 No No No English 
2013 Central 
and 
Eastern 
Europe, 
Central 
Asia and 
the 
Caucasus Other Ukraine Kiev  12/11/2013  13/11/2013   Armenia, 
Azerbaijan, 
Belarus, Georgia, 
Kazakhstan, 
Kyrgyz Republic, 
Moldova, 
Russian 
Federation, 
Tajikistan, 
Ukraine  40 No No No English 
2013 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean National 
seminar Chile Santiago  23/09/2013  24/09/2013   Chile  60 No No No Spanish 
2013 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean National 
seminar Costa Rica San José  02/12/2013  03/12/2013   Costa Rica   49 No No No Spanish 
2013 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean National 
seminar Haiti Port-au-
Prince 05/11/2013  06/11/2013  Haiti   50 No No No French  
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- 9 - Year Region SPS TA 
Activity Host Location From To Participants Participants Participation of 
representatives from 
the standard-setting 
organizations Language 
LDCs Developing Developed Codex OIE IPPC 
2013 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean (Sub) 
Regional 
Workshop Barbados Bridgetown  09/07/2013  11/07/2013   Antigua and  
Barbuda, 
Bahamas, 
Barbados, Belize, 
Dominica, 
Grenada, 
Guyana, 
Jamaica, 
St. Kitts and 
Nevis, St. Lucia, 
St. Vincent  
and the 
Grenadines, 
Suriname, 
Trinidad and 
Tobago  19 No No No English 
2013 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean Other Argentina Buenos Aires  19/09/2013  20/09/2013   Argentina, Chile, 
Mexico  46 No No No Spanish 
2013 Global Advanced 
SPS 
Course Switzerland Geneva  07/10/2013  25/10/2013  Lesotho, Samoa, 
Sierra Leone, Argentina, 
Azerbaijan, 
Bahrain, Cape 
Verde, Chile, FYR 
Macedonia, 
India, Liberia, 
Malaysia, 
Moldova, 
Nigeria, Oman, 
Pakistan, 
St. Vincent and 
the Grenadines, 
Serbia, 
South Africa, 
Sri Lanka, 
Tajikistan, 
Thailand, 
Turkey, 
Viet Nam  24 Yes Yes Yes English  
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- 10 - Year Region SPS TA 
Activity Host Location From To Participants Participants Participation of 
representatives from 
the standard-setting 
organizations Language 
LDCs Developing Developed Codex OIE IPPC 
2013 Global Special 
SPS 
Workshop Switzerland Geneva  14/10/2013  14/10/2013  Bangladesh, 
Benin, Burkina 
Faso,  
Burundi,  
Guinea, 
Madagascar,  
Mali, 
Mozambique,  
Nepal, Senegal, 
Tanzania, Togo Armenia, 
Belarus,  
Belize, 
Botswana,  
Chile, Cuba,  
Dominican 
Republic, Ghana,  
Honduras, India,  
Indonesia, 
Jamaica, Kenya, 
Lebanon, 
Morocco, 
Nigeria,  
Panama, 
Paraguay, 
Suriname, 
Swaziland,  
Chinese Taipei,  
Trinidad and 
Tobago, Turkey,  
Viet Nam, 
Zimbabwe  46 No Yes Yes English, 
French, 
Spanish 
2013 Global Other Sweden Stockholm  27/09/2013  27/09/2013    Denmark, 
Finland, 
Norway, 
Sweden 48 Yes Yes No English 
2013 Global Other Sweden Stockholm  09/10/2013  11/10/2013   Algeria, Iraq, 
Jordan, Libya, 
Morocco, Tunisia  26 No No No English 
2012 Africa National 
seminar Botswana Gaborone  23/10/2012  25/10/2012   Botswana   24 No No No English 
2012 Africa National 
seminar 
(Follow-up) Botswana Gaborone  27/11/2012  27/11/2012   Botswana   18 No No No English 
2012 Africa National 
seminar Burkina Faso Ouagadougou  12/11/2012  14/11/2012  Burkina  Faso   42 No No No French 
2012 Africa National 
seminar Ethiopia Addis Ababa  08/05/2012  11/05/2012  Ethiopia    40 No No No English 
2012 Africa National 
seminar Morocco Rabat  18/09/2012  19/09/2012   Morocco   61 No No No French 
2012 Africa National 
seminar Rwanda Kigali  06/06/2012  08/06/2012  Rwanda    30 No No No English 
2012 Africa National 
seminar Uganda Kampala  31/05/2012  01/06/2012  Uganda    46 No No No English 
2012 Africa National 
seminar Zambia Lusaka  21/11/2012  23/11/2012  Zambia    34 No No No English  
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- 11 - Year Region SPS TA 
Activity Host Location From To Participants Participants Participation of 
representatives from 
the standard-setting 
organizations Language 
LDCs Developing Developed Codex OIE IPPC 
2012 Africa Other Senegal Daka r 27/11/2012  30/11/2012  Benin, Burkina 
Faso, Burundi, 
Democratic 
Republic of the 
Congo, 
Madagascar, Mali, 
Niger, Rwanda, 
Senegal Cameroon, 
Côte d'Ivoire  40 Yes Yes Yes French 
2012 Africa (Sub) 
Regional 
Workshop Ethiopia Addis Ababa  24/09/2012  27/09/2012  Ethiopia, Liberia, 
Malawi, Sudan, 
Tanzania, 
Uganda, Zambia Botswana, 
Egypt, Ghana, 
Kenya, Nigeria, 
Seychelles, 
South Africa, 
Swaziland, 
Zimbabwe  46 Yes Yes Yes English 
2012 Arab and 
Middle 
East 
Countries Other Jordan Amman  07/05/2012  08/05/2012   Egypt, Jordan, 
Morocco, Tunisia  20 Yes Yes Yes English 
2012 Asia and 
the Pacific National 
seminar India New Delhi  28/08/2012  30/08/2012   India  24 No No No English 
2012 Asia and 
the Pacific National 
seminar Maldives Malé  19/06/2012  21/06/2012   Maldives   25 No No No English 
2012 Asia and 
the Pacific National 
seminar Philippines Quezon City  18/07/2012  20/07/2012   Philippines   50 No No No English 
2012 Asia and 
the Pacific Other Thailand Bangko k 17/09/2012  20/09/2012  Cambodia, 
Lao People's 
Democratic 
Republic, 
Myanmar Brunei 
Darussalam, 
Indonesia, 
Malaysia, 
Philippines, 
Thailand, Viet Nam Australia, 
Japan, 33
 Yes No No English 
2012 Asia and 
the Pacific Other Vanuatu Port Vila  12/03/2012  15/03/2012  Vanuatu    74 No No No English 
2012 Asia and 
the Pacific (Sub) 
Regional 
Workshop Chinese 
Taipei Taipei City  06/11/2012  09/11/2012  Bangladesh, 
Bhutan, Nepal China; Fiji; Hong 
Kong, China; 
India; Indonesia; 
Macao, China; 
Papua New 
Guinea; 
Philippines; 
Singapore; Sri 
Lanka; Chinese 
Taipei; Thailand; 
Viet Nam  46 Yes Yes Yes English  
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- 12 - Year Region SPS TA 
Activity Host Location From To Participants Participants Participation of 
representatives from 
the standard-setting 
organizations Language 
LDCs Developing Developed Codex OIE IPPC 
2012 Central 
and 
Eastern 
Europe, 
Central 
Asia and 
the 
Caucasus Other Russian 
Federation Moscow  30/10/2012  31/10/2012   Russian 
Federation  150 Yes No No English 
2012 Central 
and 
Eastern 
Europe, 
Central 
Asia and 
the 
Caucasus (Sub) 
Regional 
Workshop Austria Vienna  20/11/2012  23/11/2012  Afghanistan  Armenia, 
Belarus, Croatia, 
Iran, 
Kazakhstan, 
Kyrgyz Republic, 
Turkey, Ukraine, 
Russian 
Federation  26 Yes Yes Yes English 
2012 Global Advanced 
SPS 
Course Switzerland Geneva  08/10/2012  26/10/2012  Benin, Burkina 
Faso, Burundi, 
Comoros, 
Ethiopia, Guinea, 
Malí, Rwanda, 
Senegal, Togo Cameroon, 
Central African 
Republic, Côte 
d'Ivoire, Gabon, 
Lebanon, 
Morocco, 
Tunisia, Ukraine  24 Yes Yes Yes French 
2012 Global Other Switzerland Geneva  15/10/2012  16/10/2012  Afghanistan, 
Burkina Faso, 
Burundi, Ethiopia, 
Lao People's 
Democratic 
Republic, 
Lesotho, Malawi, 
Mali, Nepal, 
Rwanda, Senegal, 
Sierra Leone, 
Sri Lanka, Sudan, 
Tanzania, Togo, 
Uganda, Zambia Armenia, 
Belarus, Belize, 
Botswana, 
China, Colombia, 
Costa Rica, Côte 
d'Ivoire, Cuba, 
Dominican 
Republic, Egypt, 
El Salvador, Fiji, 
Gabon, Ghana, 
Honduras, 
Indonesia, 
Jordan, Kenya, 
Kyrgyz Republic, 
Mexico, Morocco, 
Nigeria, 
Paraguay, 
Philippines, 
Seychelles, 
Swaziland, 
Thailand, 
Trinidad and 
Tobago, Turkey, 
Ukraine, 
Viet Nam, 
Yemen, 
Zimbabwe  52 Yes Yes Yes English, 
French, 
Spanish  
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- 13 - Year Region SPS TA 
Activity Host Location From To Participants Participants Participation of 
representatives from 
the standard-setting 
organizations Language 
LDCs Developing Developed Codex OIE IPPC 
2012 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean National 
seminar Argentina Buenos Aires  03/09/2012  03/09/2012   Argentina   27 No No No Spanish 
2012 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean National 
seminar Chile Santiago  04/09/2012  07/09/2012   Chile  99 No No No Spanish 
2012 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean National 
seminar Mexico Mexico City  10/09/2012  11/09/2012   Mexico   94 No No No Spanish 
2012 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean Other Argentina Buenos Aires  28/06/2012  28/06/2012   Argentina   20 No No No Spanish 
2012 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean (Sub) 
Regional 
Workshop Chile Santiago  25/06/2012  30/06/2012   Argentina, 
Bolivia, Brazil, 
Chile, Colombia, 
Costa Rica, 
Cuba, Ecuador, 
El Salvador, 
Guatemala, 
Honduras, 
Mexico, 
Nicaragua, 
Panama, Peru, 
Dominican 
Republic, 
Uruguay  42 Yes Yes Yes Spanish 
2011 Africa National 
seminar Burundi Bujumbura  25/01/2011  28/01/2011  Burundi    40 No No No French 
2011 Africa National 
seminar Senegal Dakar 03/10/2011  05/10/2011  Senegal    30 No No No French 
2011 Africa National 
seminar Namibia Windhoe k 18/10/2011  19/10/2011   Namibia   23 No No No English 
2011 Africa National 
seminar Gabon Libreville  05/12/2011  07/12/2011   Gabon   49 No No No French 
2011 Africa (Sub) 
Regional 
Workshop Mali Bamako  15/11/2011  18/11/2011  Angola, Benin, 
Burkina Faso, 
Burundi, Central 
African Republic, 
Comoros, 
Democratic 
Republic of the 
Congo, 
Madagascar, Mali, 
Sao Tomé and 
Principe, Senegal, 
Togo Gabon, Morocco   52 Yes Yes Yes French  
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- 14 - Year Region SPS TA 
Activity Host Location From To Participants Participants Participation of 
representatives from 
the standard-setting 
organizations Language 
LDCs Developing Developed Codex OIE IPPC 
2011 Africa (Sub) 
Regional 
Workshop Kenya Nairobi  22/11/2011  25/11/2011  Ethiopia, Lesotho, 
Malawi, Tanzania, 
Uganda, Zambia Botswana, 
Egypt, Ghana, 
Kenya, Nigeria, 
Seychelles, 
Swaziland, 
Zimbabwe  51 Yes Yes Yes English 
2011 Arab and 
Middle 
East 
Countries (Sub) 
Regional 
Workshop Qatar Doha  27/11/2011  30/11/2011  Sudan, Yemen  Egypt, Jordan, 
Morocco, Oman, 
Qatar, Tunisia  43 Yes Yes Yes English, 
Arabic 
2011 Asia and 
the Pacific National 
seminar Chinese 
Taipei Taipei  27/09/2011  29/09/2011   Chinese Taipei   58 No No No English 
2011 Asia and 
the Pacific National 
seminar Samoa Apia  01/11/2011  03/11/2011  Samoa    38 No No No English 
2011 Central 
and 
Eastern 
Europe 
and 
Central 
Asia National 
seminar Iran, Islamic 
Republic of Tehran  13/06/2011  15/06/2011   Iran, Islamic 
Republic of  88 No No No English 
2011 Central 
and 
Eastern 
Europe 
and 
Central 
Asia Other Sweden Stockholm  02/02/2011  04/02/2011   Iraq  28 No No No English 
2011 Central 
and 
Eastern 
Europe 
and 
Central 
Asia Other Sweden Stockholm  09/03/2011  11/03/2011   Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, 
Georgia, The 
former Yugoslav 
Republic of 
Macedonia, 
Moldova  24 No No No English  
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- 15 - Year Region SPS TA 
Activity Host Location From To Participants Participants Participation of 
representatives from 
the standard-setting 
organizations Language 
LDCs Developing Developed Codex OIE IPPC 
2011 Global Advanced 
SPS 
Course Switzerland Geneva  10/10/2011  28/10/2011  Central African 
Republic, Malawi, 
Mozambique, 
Nepal, Tanzania, 
Togo Barbados, Belize, 
Botswana, 
Egypt, 
Guatemala, 
Honduras, 
Jamaica, Jordan, 
Kazakhstan, 
Kyrgyz Republic, 
Mauritius, 
Mexico, Panama, 
Seychelles, 
Swaziland, 
Syrian Arab 
Republic, 
Ukraine, 
Zimbabwe  24 Yes Yes Yes English 
2011 Global Special 
SPS 
Workshop Switzerland Geneva  17/10/2011  21/10/2011  Angola, Benin, 
Bhutan, Burkina 
Faso, Burundi, 
Central African 
Republic, 
Comoros, 
Democratic 
Republic of the 
Congo, 
Lao People's 
Democratic 
Republic, 
Lesotho, 
Madagascar, 
Malawi, Mali, 
Nepal, Sao Tome 
and Principe, 
Senegal, Sudan, 
Togo, Uganda, 
Zambia Argentina, 
Belize, 
Botswana, Brazil, 
Chile, China, 
Colombia, Egypt, 
Gabon, Ghana, 
Guatemala, 
Honduras, 
Kazakhstan, 
Morocco, 
Pakistan, 
Panama, 
Paraguay, Peru, 
Philippines, 
Serbia, 
Seychelles, 
Syrian Arab 
Republic, 
Chinese Taipei, 
Tanzania, 
Thailand, 
Trinidad and 
Tobago, Tunisia, 
Turkey, Ukraine  54 Yes Yes Yes English, 
French, 
Spanish 
2011 Global Other Malaysia Kuala Lumpu r 15/03/2011  17/03/2011  Bangladesh  Azerbaijan, 
Brunei 
Darussalam, 
Iran, Kyrgyz 
Republic, 
Malaysia, 
Maldives, 
Suriname, 
Turkey, 
Uzbekistan  35 No No No English  
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- 16 - Year Region SPS TA 
Activity Host Location From To Participants Participants Participation of 
representatives from 
the standard-setting 
organizations Language 
LDCs Developing Developed Codex OIE IPPC 
2011 Global Other Sweden Stockholm  30/03/2011  31/03/2011  Yemen  Algeria, Egypt, 
Jordan, Morocco, 
Palestinian 
Authority, Syrian 
Arab Republic, 
Tunisia  29 No No No English 
2011 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean National 
seminar Colombia Bogota  08/04/2011  08/04/2011   Colombia   28 No No No Spanish 
2011 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean National 
seminar Nicaragua Managua  28/09/2011  30/09/2011   Nicaragua   35 No No No Spanish 
2011 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean National 
seminar Panama Panama City  05/10/2011  07/10/2011   Panama   30 No Yes No Spanish 
2011 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean Other Argentina Buenos Aires  30/05/2011  31/05/2011   Argentina, 
Brazil, Mexico, 
Uruguay  41 No No No Spanish 
2011 Latin 
America 
and the 
Caribbean (Sub) 
Regional 
Workshop Barbados Bridgetown  26/07/2011  29/07/2011  Haiti Antigua and  
Barbuda, 
Bahamas, 
Barbados, Belize, 
Dominica, 
Grenada, 
Jamaica, 
St Vincent and 
the Grenadines, 
Suriname, 
Trinidad and 
Tobago  32 Yes Yes Yes English 
 
 
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