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Risk analysis workshop

The WTO Secretariat organized a workshop on risk analysis on 19-20 June 2000, immediately before the 18th meeting of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Committee.

The workshop was chaired by Dr Alejandro Thiermann (United States). You can find here a summary report of the meeting, powerpoint presentations, and the meetings’s programme.

Temporarily you may select and download one of the original PowerPoint presentations from the workshop on risk analysis. They are notes of the speakers’ main talking points, not the full texts:

• Fundamentals of risk analysis: Robert Griffin, IPPC secretariat
• SPS Agreement and scientific justification: Erik Wijkström, WTO Secretariat
• Bovine somatotrophin (BST): James Moynagh, European Commission
• Pork, African swine fever and Madagascar: Katharina Stärk, Switzerland
• Codex and risk analysis: David Byron, Codex Secretariat
• OIE and risk analysis: Thierry Chillaud, OIE Secretariat
• IPPC and risk analysis: Bob Griffin, IPPC Secretariat
• Example — aflatoxins: John Herrman (WHO)
• Implementation in Australia — ya pears: Digby Gascoine, Australia

Click here to download the full PowerPoint presentation files in Zip format.

WTO SPS Risk Analysis Workshop 
19-20 June 2000

PROGRAMME

Monday, 19 June 2000 – Session 1

15:00 Opening statement:
Frank Wolter(Director, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division)

15:15 The link between the SPS Agreement and risk analysis:
Gretchen H. Stanton (Secretary of the SPS Committee, WTO Secretariat)

15:45 Fundamentals of Risk Analysis and its practical application: Robert Griffin (IPPC Secretariat). See presentation notes.

16:30 Examples from Members / Observers:
> Eduardo Serrano (OIRSA) on the characterization of BSE risk for certain Central American countries;
> Noreen A. Hynes (United States) – on Salmonella Enteritidis in Eggs

Tuesday, 20 June 2000 – Session 2

09:30 The SPS Agreement as it relates to scientific justification:
Erik Wijkström (WTO Secretariat). See presentation notes.

10:30 Examples from Members / Observers Continued from Session 1:
> James Moynagh (European Communities) – on BST. See presentation notes;
> Katharina Stärk (Switzerland) – on Pork, African Swine Fever and Madagascar. See presentation notes.

11:30 The Codex, OIE and IPPC – their work relating to Risk Analysis:
> David Byron (Codex Secretariat). See presentation notes;
> Thierry Chillaud (OIE Secretariat). See presentation notes;
> Robert Griffin (IPPC Secretariat). See presentation notes;
> Discussion

Lunch break: 12:30 to 14:30 – Session 3

14:30 Examples from Members / Observers Continued from Session 1:
> John Herrman (WHO Secretariat) – on Aflatoxins. See presentation notes;
> Digby Gascoine (Australia) - Implementation of science-based risk analysis for application of SPS measures in Australia (Case-study on Ya Pear from Hebei Province of the People's Republic of China). See presentation notes

17:00 Concluding Remarks: Gretchen H. Stanton (WTO Secretariat)