Adaptation to Regional Conditions. 1. In order to facilitate trade between the Parties, where a Party objectively demonstrates an area or part of its territory to be free of a pest or disease or an area to be of low pest prevalence, following an assessment by the other Party, the Parties may agree to recognise this status.
Adaptation to Regional Conditions. 1. Each Party shall adapt any of its sanitary or phytosanitary measures relating to the introduction, establishment or spread of an animal or plant pest or disease, to the sanitary or phytosanitary characteristics of the area where a good subject to such a measure is produced and the area in its territory to which the good is destined, taking into account any relevant conditions, including those relating to transportation and handling, between those areas. In assessing such characteristics of an area, including whether an area is, and is likely to remain, a pest-free or disease-free area or an area of low pest or disease prevalence, each Party shall take into account, among other factors:
Adaptation to Regional Conditions. 1. Where a Party has an area or part of its territory free of a disease or pest, the Parties may agree in accordance with Implementing Arrangement 3, to list this status and the measures in place in Implementing Arrangement 2 to ensure that the disease or pest free status will be maintained in the event of an incursion.
Adaptation to Regional Conditions. 1. With respect to an animal, animal product and animal by-product:
Adaptation to Regional Conditions. 1. In order to facilitate trade between the Parties, where a Party objectively demonstrates an area or part of its territory to be free of a pest or disease or an area to be of low pest prevalence, following an assessment by the other Party, the Parties may agree to recognise this status. 2. The Parties shall jointly develop principles, criteria and processes regarding adaptation to regional conditions and record these in Implementing Arrangement: Chapter 7 C(1). Recognition of the status shall be in accordance with the principles, criteria and processes recorded in this Implementing Arrangement. 3. The Parties, through the Joint Management Committee, shall decide on the status as described in paragraph 1 and the measures to be taken to maintain this status and may also decide in advance the risk management measures that will apply to trade between the Parties in the event of a change in the status. These decisions on status and measures shall be recorded in Implementing Arrangement: Chapter 7 C(2). 4. Decisions recorded in Implementing Arrangement: Chapter 7 C(2) shall be applied to trade between the Parties.
Adaptation to Regional Conditions. 1. The Parties agree that issues related to the adaptation of zones with different sanitary and phytosanitary status and that affect or may affect trade between them shall be addressed in accordance with Article 6 of the SPS Agreement.
Adaptation to Regional Conditions. The Parties recognise that the principle of adaptation to regional conditions, as set out in Article 6 of the SPS Agreement, is an important mean to facilitate trade. To that end, each Party shall take into account, as appropriate, standards, guidelines and recommendations, developed by the WTO Committee on SPS and relevant international standard-setting bodies, consistent with Annex A to the SPS Agreement.
Adaptation to Regional Conditions. 1. The Parties may make determinations in relation to regionalisation, pest- or disease-free areas, areas of low pest or disease prevalence, zoning and compartmentalisation which shall be consistent with the SPS Agreement, and in particular Article 6 thereof.
Adaptation to Regional Conditions. 1. Where a Party has an area or part of its territory free of a disease or pest, the Parties may agree in accordance with Implementing Arrangement 3, to list this status and the measures in place in Implementing Arrangement 2 to ensure that the disease or pest free status will be maintained in the event of an incursion. 2. In the event of an incursion of a disease or pest specified in Implementing Arrangement 2, the importing Party shall recognise the exporting Party's measures specified in Implementing Arrangement 2 for the purpose of facilitating trade among the Parties. 3. The Parties may agree to list additional diseases or pests in Implementing Arrangement 2, in accordance with the criteria specified in Implementing Arrangement 3. 4.
Adaptation to Regional Conditions. 1. The Parties agree to enhance cooperation on matters pertaining to adaptation to regional conditions of the Parties, including the recognition of pest- or disease- free areas, areas of low pest or disease prevalence, and pest- or disease-free production sites or compartments, taking into account relevant guidelines and recommendations of the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, the IPPC, the OIE and the Codex Alimentarius.
