The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), namely the OIE Standards Department, and the OIE Regional and Subregional Representations in Europe (Moscow, Nur-Sultan and Brussels) held two virtual sessions of the regional training webinar “OIE Standards: Facilitating safe international trade” for OIE Delegates of 53 Member countries from Europe region, and their designated senior officers involved in the area of risk assessment or risk management related to import or export of animals and animal products. In total, more than 100 experts were registered to attend this capacity building seminar.
This regional webinar is co-funded by the European Union (DG SANTE, European Commission Directorate General Health and Food Safety).
The purpose of the webinar is to transfer knowledge and understanding of the role of OIE international standards in improvement of animal health, animal welfare and veterinary public health, including one heath, and how to apply this knowledge when setting sanitary measures to ensure safe trade of animals and animal products. The main objectives of this seminar were to enable veterinary authorities of 53 Member countries of Europe region to:
Overview of OIE standards, structure and content.
Dr Etienne Bonbon, President of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission
Framework for safe international trade – WTO SPS Agreement principles.
Dr Francisco D’Alessio, OIE Standards Department
Animal health status, regionalisation, and international trade. OIE tools supporting transparency of the global animal health situation: WAHIS, OIE official status and self-declarations.
Dr Charmain Chng, OIE Standards Department
How to use OIE Standards in practice to define sanitary measures for trade?
Dr Etienne Bonbon, President of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission
Experience of Europe in OIE standard setting process with Lumpy Skin Disease, the role of Regional Core Group of the OIE Regional Commission for Europe
Dr Budimir Plavšić, OIE Regional Representative for Europe in Moscow
The OIE standard setting process
Dr Charmain Chng
The Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission Reports.
Dr Yukitake Okamura, OIE Standards Department
Why and how to get involved in OIE standard setting – the EU perspective
Dr Moritz Klemm, DG SANTE – European Commission
OIE standard evolution – Avian influenza
Dr Yukitake Okamura
