Activity Details
Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) in WTO Agreements, and (Inquiry Points)
Course Objective:
This course is designed to provide participants with the necessary knowledge on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS) in WTO agreements, Enquiry Points, Notification Authority and the introduction of electronic systems.
Target group:
· Notification Authority
· Enquiry Points
· Specialists employed by national standards bodies
· Members of national/GCC technical committees.
· Bodies that participate in standards development technical committees.
· Specialists responsible for developing products in factories in the member GSO.
· Workers in the Ministries of Commerce and Industry
· Workers in the Health and food safety.
· Customs personnel.
· Chambers of Industry and Commerce & Businessmen.
Main Course Topics:
· Principles of the multilateral global trading system
· The role of trade in development.
· WTO membership
· WTO/TBT/SPS Agreements, and Implementation.
· Dispute settlement within WTO.
· International Standards for Trade & Development
· Technical Regulations & Conformity Assessment and Trade.
· Enquiry Points
· Notification Authority
· Notification (WTO/TBT, WTO/SPS)
· Notification to the GCC.
· GSO Unified Notification
· Electronic systems: ePing – SPS &TBT notification alert system
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