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OIE: Global Animal Health Standards Organization

The World Organisation for Animal Health ensures animal health transparency, disseminates veterinary information, safeguards trade, and improves veterinary resources. Collaborates with Codex on standards, zoonoses, and food safety.

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OIE: Global Animal Health Standards Organization

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  1. Office International des Épizooties World Organisation for Animal Health created in 1924 in Paris

  2. 162 Member Countries Americas: 28 – Africa: 47 – Europe: 49 – Middle East: 12 – Asia: 26 Delegates are the Chief Veterinary Officers

  3. Objectives • To ensure transparency in the animal health situation throughout the world. • To collect, analyse and disseminate scientific veterinary information. • To contribute expertise and encourage international collaboration in the control of animal diseases. • Within its mandate under SPS and WTO Agreement, to safeguard world trade by publishing health standards for international trade in animals and animal products. 5. To improve the legal framework and resources of Veterinary Services.

  4. The OIE Early Warning System

  5. Approach of the Code • Generic (horizontal) chapters • import risk analysis methodology • monitoring and surveillance standards • evaluation of veterinary services, etc. • Specific chapters on listed animal diseases and zoonoses covering • live animals • semen and embryos • products of animal origin (meat, eggs, milk, hides and skins….)

  6. Updatinginternational standards COMMITTEE,COMMISSIONS,DELEGATES PROBLEM Specialist Commissions Review Advice of experts or other Specialist Commissions Draft text 1 2 Comments DELEGATES COMMITTEE OIE INTERNATIONALSTANDARD Adoption

  7. New work programme • Animal welfare • Animal production food safety • Regular up-dating of all Code chapters • Interactive consultations

  8. Areas of cooperation with Codex (1) • Equivalence • Risk analysis • Regionalisation and zoning • Surveillance and monitoring • Transparency

  9. Areas of cooperation with Codex (2) • Control, Inspection and Certification Procedures • Zoonoses • Pre-Harvest Food and Feed Safety • Biotechnology • Veterinary Drugs and Antimicrobial Resistance

  10. Collaborating Centres and Reference Laboratories 152 Collaborating Centres and Reference Laboratories across the world • Collaborating Centres: horizontal themes • Reference Laboratories for diagnosis, control, research and training

  11. Functions and Responsibilitiesof the OIE Reference Laboratories 1. Act as a centre of expertise for a disease and standardisation of methodology, 2. Storage and distribution of standards strains and diagnostic standards, antisera, antigens and other reagents, 3.Development of new diagnostic methods, 4. Collection, processing and analysis of epizootiological data,

  12. Functions and Responsibilitiesof the OIE Reference Laboratories (contd) 5. Provision of technical assistance to the OIE 6. Training in specific areas, 7. Organisation of scientific meetings on behalf of the OIE, 8. Co-ordination of collaborative studies, 9. Publication and dissemination of the relevant information.

  13. Information on the OIE Web Site • Early warning • Weekly Disease Information • International Standards (Codes, Manuals, etc.) • Scientific and Technical Review (contents and abstracts) • Scientific and general information on OIE activities, animal diseases and zoonoses

  14. Capacity Building • WTO coordinated Seminars • Assistance to Delegates (national or regional) • Specific workshops on Risk Analysis, Veterinary Services • Workshops on disease control and trade resolution • Seminars on vaccine production and standardization

  15. Capacity Building cont. • Participation in Ad hoc expert groups • Assistance in animal health data submission • Mediation on trade concerns • Twinning with Reference Centers and Laboratories

  16. World organisation for animal health 12 rue de prony 75017 paris, france Tel: 33 (0)1 44 15 18 88 – Fax: 33 (0)1 42 67 09 87 Email: oie@oie.int http://www.oie.int

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