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Managing SPS Information to Maximize Stakeholder Interest and Involvement

Managing SPS Information to Maximize Stakeholder Interest and Involvement. Special Meeting on the Implementation of the SPS Agreement . Geneva, 31 March 2006. “Model Arrangements for SPS Stakeholder Involvement at the National Level” (STDF19). Purpose.

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Managing SPS Information to Maximize Stakeholder Interest and Involvement

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  1. Managing SPS Informationto Maximize Stakeholder Interest and Involvement Special Meeting on the Implementation of the SPS Agreement Geneva, 31 March 2006

  2. “Model Arrangements for SPS Stakeholder Involvement at the National Level” (STDF19)

  3. Purpose • Improve SPS-related information flow as well as information sharing between the public and private sector… …with positive spin-offs for market access

  4. The present situation in Sri Lanka IPPC WTO NCP: Directorate of Seed Production and Plant Quarantine (Ministry of Agriculture) NNA Department of Commerce (Ministry of Trade and Commerce) NCP: Directorate of Animal Production and Health (Ministry of Agriculture) Private Stakeholders OIE NEP and NCP: Directorate of Food Safety (Ministry of Health, Nutrition, and Welfare) CODEX

  5. First step in improving SPS information management in Sri Lanka=>national portal IPPC WTO NCP: Directorate of Seed Production and Plant Quarantine (Ministry of Agriculture) Sri Lanka Portal for Food and Agricultural Standards NNA Department of Commerce (Ministry of Trade and Commerce) NCP: Directorate of Animal Production and Health (Ministry of Agriculture) OIE NEP and NCP: Directorate of Food Safety (Ministry of Health, Nutrition, and Welfare) CODEX EU NCP: Ministry of Fisheries and Natural Resources

  6. Global Reference Portal for SPS

  7. Second step in improving SPS information management in Sri Lanka=>web-based network IPPC WTO Tea Cluster Coconut Cluster NCP: Directorate of Seed Production and Plant Quarantine (Ministry of Agriculture) Processed Food Cluster Organic Products Cluster Spice/Nut Cluster Fruit & Vegetable Cluster* Sri Lanka Portal for Food and Agricultural Standards NNA Department of Commerce (Ministry of Trade and Commerce) NCP: Directorate of Animal Production and Health (Ministry of Agriculture) Agribusiness Ornamental Horticulture Cluster* OIE Poultry/Egg Cluster* NEP and NCP: Directorate of Food Safety (Ministry of Health, Nutrition, and Welfare) Inputs Cluster* Live and Processed Fish Cluster* Livestock and Meat Cluster* *new websites CODEX EU NCP: Ministry of Fisheries and Natural Resources

  8. Host Association for Sri Lanka

  9. First and Second Steps for Paraguayan National Information System for Food & Agricultural Standards IPPC WTO SENAVE NEP and Nat’l Contact Point for Plant Heath CEPACOOP Fruits and Vegetables CAPECO Cereals and Oilseeds CADELPA Cotton Paraguayan Portal for Food and Agricultural Standards MINISTRY OF FOREIGN RELATIONS NNA SENACSA NEP and Nat’l Contact Point for Animal Heath FECOPROD Cooperatives CEPAL Processed Foods OIE INTN NEP for Food Safety ARP Livestock CODEX

  10. Regional Reference Portal for SPS

  11. Challenges in gaining buy-in • Breaking down walls within the public sector • Getting the public sector to reach out to private • Convincing the public sector players to give up control over portal, for their own long-term benefit • Convincing the private sector that public will really work with them • Deciding which private entities to include as leaders

  12. Strengths of Internet-based solutions • Can serve as one-stop shop for information needs and communicate breaking news • Can become a virtual gathering place strengthening cohesion among stakeholders • Can serve as vehicle for discussing issues, presenting positions, furthering consensus • Can handle multiple languages • Delivers documents in electronic (i.e.,manipulable) form • Has a very low cost of adding, deleting or updating documents • Has zero marginal cost to provider for each hit • Relatively low cost of access and use to users continued

  13. Weaknesses of Internet-based solutions • Will have a relatively high set-up and maintenance cost and may not be easy to sustain in a financial and technical sense; • Still excludes a significant (although declining) share of stakeholders; • Has trouble capturing the necessary volume of information and keeping it up to date • Will find it difficult to handle confidential or limited-audience data such as private standards and may find it hard to charge user fees because much of the content is public data or concerns public goods continued

  14. Implications for Implementation of the SPS Agreement? Its too soon to tell, but it may • Enhance relevance of WTO notifications as perceived by some public and most private stakeholders • Facilitate broader dissemination of information from Three Sisters to relevant subsectors and industry players • Serve to place official grades and standards in proper place vis-à-vis private standards • Stimulate greater involvement of private sector • Facilitate more commentary on proposed standards, rules and SPS actions at borders • Provide a way to achieve more efficiency and sustainability in the handling of SPS-related information

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