The WTO agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary measures
Subtitle: a commentary
By: Joanne Scott.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780199271122
Subjects: World Trade Organization.; Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures -- (1995); Food adulteration and inspection -- Law and legislation.; Plant inspection -- Law and legislation.; Animals -- Inspection -- Law and legislation.
Description: "Almost every day newspapers carry stories which implicate the SPS Agreement. From avian flu and GMOs to 'mad honey disease', the trade dimension of these is never far from the surface. The SPS Agreement is concerned with trade and food safety regulation, and with the regulation of pests and diseases in agriculture. This book offers a legal commentary on this agreement, and on the case law which has grown up around it. It examines the agreement's turn to science, as well as the operation of the SPS Committee as a site for transnational governance. It also examines the agreement's attempt to establish a framework to draw together the diverse institutions and regulatory regimes already populating the food safety arena."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the SPS agreement; title: Cooperative regulation in the WTO: the SPS committee; title: Science and SPS; title: Additional obligations; title: The transparency obligations; title: Control, inspection and approval procedure; title: International standards; title: SPS and developing countries.