{"id":24133,"date":"2024-06-10T07:13:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T01:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24133"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:07:33","slug":"wtos-sps-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wtos-sps-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"WTO\u2019s SPS Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About SPS Agreement:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Agreement on the Application of <strong>Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures <\/strong>(SPS Agreement) is a treaty of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that <strong>came into force with the establishment of the WTO<\/strong> on January 1, 1995.<\/li>\n<li>It sets out the <strong>basic rules for food safety and animal and plant<\/strong> health standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Provisions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scientific basis<\/strong>: SPS measures must be based on scientific principles and sufficient evidence, except for provisional measures.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Harmonization<\/strong>: Members are encouraged to align SPS measures with international standards set by bodies like Codex Alimentarius, OIE, and IPPC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Equivalence<\/strong>: SPS measures of other countries should be accepted as equivalent if they achieve the same level of protection.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Risk assessment<\/strong>: Countries must conduct risk assessments to determine the appropriate level of protection, considering the impacts of pests or diseases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regionalization<\/strong>: Members should recognize pest- or disease-free areas and areas of low prevalence, even if within a single country or group of countries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transparency<\/strong>: Countries must notify changes in SPS measures and provide regulatory information through the WTO\u2019s SPS notification system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dispute Resolution: <\/strong>These disputes can be taken to the WTO\u2019s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) if consultations fail.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1. What is the WTO\u2019s Dispute Settlement Body?<\/h3>\n<p>The Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) makes decisions on trade disputes between governments that are adjudicated by the Organisation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/settling-trade-disputes-through-litigotiation\/article68269642.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Settling trade disputes through \u2018litigotiation\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) is a treaty of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that came into force with the establishment of the WTO on January 1, 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}