Meeting of the First Sanitary and Phytosanitary Joint Management Committee

Ottawa, 26-27 March 2018

Agenda

1. Welcome and Introduction

2. Operation and Implementation of the Sps Chapter

• 2.1 Rules of Procedure
• 2.2 Establishment of the CETA SPS JMC Work Programme
• 2.3 CETA SPS Chapter articles, for further reflection

3. Information Sharing

• 3.1 Safe Food for Canadians Regulations- Information
• 3.2 Incoming and outgoing audits- Information
• 3.3 Transparency on new disease outbreaks- Information
• 3.4 e-Certification- Information
• 3.5 New Animal Health law
• 3.6 New Plant Health law
• 3.7 New regulation for official controls

4. ANNEXES Discussion

• ANNEX 5-C-Process of Recognition of Regional Conditions
• ANNEX 5-D-Guidelines to Determine, Recognise and Maintain Equivalence
• ANNEX 5-E, Section B- Recognition of SPS measures-Phytosanitary Measures
• ANNEX 5-F-Approval of Establishments or Facilities
• ANNEX 5-H- Principles and Guidelines to Conduct an Audit or Verification
• ANNEX 5-J, SECTION B - Import Checks and Fees-Fees

5. Specific Issue Management

Plant

• 5.1 Exports of fresh tomato with vines, stems, and calyces
• 5.2 Exports of potato mini-tubers
• 5.3Alternatives to use of methyl bromide, ongoing project work
• 5.4 Hazard-based cut-off and the impact on import tolerances
• 5.5 Non-renewal of picoxystrobin
• 5.6 Member States' measures that differ from EU-level measures (e.g. dimethoate, glyphosate)

Animal

• 5.7 PCR test on bovine semen for Schmallenberg Virus
• 5.8 Revised testing protocols due to epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV)
• 5.9 Export live cattle from EU to Canada
• 5.10 Harmonised conditions for equine semen from EU to Canada
• 5.11 Harmonised conditions for porcine semen from EU to Canada
• 5.12 Hatching eggs and day-old-chicks, harmonised export certificates

Food Safety

• 5.13 Recognition of EU Member State meat inspection systems
• 5.14 EU harmonised export certificates for fresh meat (poultry, sheep/goat) and processed meat (beef, pork, poultry, others)
• 5.15 Simplified certificates for Canadian meat and meat products (meat derived from bovine, porcine, solipeds, ovine and caprine, poultry, farmed ratites, farmed rabbit, farmed cervids, farmed wild suidae and fish based on existing equivalence)
• 5.16 Trade EU egg products to CAN
• 5.17 Closure of EU’s audit of CFIA’s Fish Inspection Activities
• 5.18 Closure of EU’s audit of CFIA’s National Chemical Residue Monitoring Program (NCRMP).
• 5.19 Pesticide residue levels
• 5.20 Certification of fish landed in Canada by EU approved vessels
• 5.21 Timelines for listing of approved Canadian establishments (e.g. SANTE reference 614984, 731831)

Audit

• 5.22 Update and findings CFIA's Offshore program
• 5.23 Export of processed animal proteins from EU to Canada - audit rendering plants -

6. Specific Work on Recognition of Equivalence

7. Opportunities for Enhanced Cooperation on Sps Intiatives

• 7.1 Antimicrobial resistance

8. Other

• 8.1 Activities of the Animal Welfare Technical Working Group
• 8.2 Animal Welfare – Relation with the Regulatory Cooperation Forum

9. Work Programme for 2018-2019

10. Next Meeting