Dialogues. The agreement includes bilateral and international cooperation in the key areas of animal welfare, biotechnology, food safety and the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR).These dialogues and exchanges of information between the EU and Mercosur aim at strengthening mutual confidence and improving common understanding on these important subjects. On Animal welfare matters, the agreement will promote the EU’s global animal welfare agenda. The Parties will be able to discuss specific topics on animal welfare relevant to trade. The agreement will result in increased exchange of information, expertise and experiences and will strengthen cooperation in research. The Parties will cooperate in international fora with the aim of promoting further development of international standards on animal welfare by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and best animal welfare practices and their implementation. This is in line with EU policies of supporting the development and improved implementation of OIE animal welfare standards. This will allow the Parties to establish an appropriate level of protection, while fully preserving the right of each Party to regulate. On issues related to the application of agricultural biotechnology, the Parties have agreed to exchange information on policies, legislation, guidelines, good practices and projects of agricultural biotechnology products, as well as specific topics on biotechnology that may affect trade, including cooperation on GMO testing. As regards antimicrobial resistance, the Parties recognise the importance of tackling this global threat that knows no borders. They commit to work bilaterally and internationally to fight against antimicrobial resistance and in particular to promote the prudent and responsible use of antibiotics in animal production and veterinary practices. For scientific matters related to food safety, animal and plant health, the Parties will xxxxxx cooperation between their respective official scientific bodies responsible for food safety (e.g. on maximum residue levels), and animal and plant health. This cooperation will aim to increase the scientific information available to the Parties to support their respective approaches on regulatory standards that may affect mutual trade. It will also address gathering scientific data and improve cooperation in building a common understanding regarding the World Organisation for Animal Health, International Plant Protection Convention and Codex ...
Dialogues. Both sides will establish the Dialogue to share the matters mentioned in ITEM 2
Dialogues. As it has already been highlighted in this thesis, structured approaches in argumentation are more helpful when dealing with realistic argumentation problems since it allows one to examine the internal components of an argument, i.e. the elements used to instantiate
