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.
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Samples: Zealand Free Trade Agreement, Zealand Free Trade Agreement, Zealand Free Trade Agreement
