 
 WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/SPS/GEN/295/Add.36 
11 June 2004 
 
 (04-2532) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
  
 
  
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE – REPLIES TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE 
 
Submission by Nicaragua 
 
Addendum 
   
 G/SPS/GEN/295/Add.36 
Page 2 Technical assistance requirements:  NICARAGUA 
 
 Information Training Infrastructure: (H ard and/or Soft) Specific concern Other 
Rights, obligations 
and practical 
operation of the 
SPS Agreement  - Seminar-workshop on the 
Implementation of the Agreement on 
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures for 
public- and private-sector officials - Computer equipment to improve the 
functioning of the office in charge of 
notification and the Information 
Service   
Food Safety 
 - Compendiums of AOAC 
methods (Association of 
Official Analytical Chemists, 
latest version) 
- Compendium of volumes of the 
Codex Alimentarius - Training, developmen t, application and 
maintenance workshops concerning 
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control 
Point (HACCP), Good Agricultural 
Practices (GAP), Good Manufacturing 
Practices (GMP), and Standard 
Sanitation Operation Procedure (SSOP) 
- Workshop on food control and quality 
- Training in risk analysis techniques - HACCP, GAP, GMP, SSOP audits 
- Design of the traceability system 
- Risk analysis structure 
- Computer equipment for food 
monitoring 
- Revision and updating of standards 
and procedures   
Animal Health   
 
 
 
 
 - Seminar-workshop for the training and 
upgrading of the Risk Analysis Unit 
- Training in microbiological aspects of 
animal health 
- Seminar-workshop on inspection and 
certification of live animals, and animal 
products and byproducts - Upgrading of laboratories for 
veterinary diagnosis (diseases of trade 
concern) and detect ion of toxic and 
biological residues in food of animal 
origin (new methods and techniques 
required by importing countries) 
- Revision and updating of standards 
and procedures  - Guidance for the 
development and 
implementation of a 
traceability 
programme for cattle 
Plant Health   
 - Training to strengthen the Risk Analysis 
Unit 
- Workshop on plant quarantine and 
certification and inspection procedures - Equipping of the Risk Analysis Unit 
- Revision and updating of standards 
and procedures   
Contact details Ministerio de Fomento, Industria y Come rcio (Ministry of Development, Industry and Commerce) 
Carretera a Masaya Km. 6. Frente al Camino de Oriente. Managua, Nicaragua. 
Tel. (505) 267-0161 ext. 1048. Fax (505) 267-2019  G/SPS/GEN/295/Add.36 
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 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 
(Such information could include, inter alia, a more deta iled description of the technical assistance required, 
any relevant background information on the reasons for the request, the possibility of using a regional 
approach to the provision of the requested assist ance and the scope for a coordinated approach among 
relevant international organisations.) 
     
 
    
 
    
 
     
 
    
 
     
 
    
 
    
 
  
  
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