WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/GEN/295/Add.1
6 February 2002
(02-0554)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE – RESPONSE TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE
Submission by Egypt
AddendumG/SPS/GEN/295/Add.1
Page 2Technical assistance requirements:
Information Training Infrastructure: (Hard and/or Soft) Specific concern Other
Rights,
obligations and
practical
operation ofthe SPS
Agreement- Regular notifications
of WTO Members
- Establishment of a 
national referenceLibrary for the 
different aspects of 
SPS Agreement
- On-line contact for 
rapid response to theSPS documents- Workshops, seminars and 
training courses on the different 
aspects of international trade in 
animals, animal products and animal by-products
- Training on the harmonization of 
veterinary quarantine measures
- Risk analysis, assessment 
and management
- Epidemiosurveillance and 
international standards of 
animal health
- Upgrading of personnel skills of 
veterinary quarantine and preventive medicine
- Training on dealing with 
ALOP, equivalence, and 
different specific aspects of the 
Agreement- Hard- and software for the 
establishment of a national 
Library in the General 
Organization for Veterinary Services/Egypt for the 
documentation of SPS 
subjects and listing of different 
developments related to 
veterinary legislation and veterinary quarantine topics 
world-wide (computers, 
software, CD Roms for the 
documents)
- Assistance for preparation of 
regulatory framework of 
veterinary quarantine, 
biosecurity and preventive 
medicine- Enhancement of the 
intersectoral 
collaboration between 
the national bodies involved in sanitary and
phytosanitary trade 
issues
Food safety- Follow-up food 
safety issues and legislation world-
wide
- Continuous and 
regular participation 
in the work of the 
international 
organization for standardization- Training in the field of food-
borne diseases
- Enhancement of the personnel 
skills and food safety labs' 
diagnostic capabilities
- Extensive and intensive courses 
on HACCP system- Providing national reference labs 
with the required lab equipment
- Assistance in applying HACCP 
system and quality assurance in 
slaughterhouses, fish producing 
and exporting establishments and 
animal products processing unitsG/SPS/GEN/295/Add.1
Page 3Animal health- International and 
regional disease 
control information
- Modern aspect of 
epidemiology and 
different means of 
achieving disease 
freedom according 
to the international standards- Workshops, seminars and training
courses on the different aspects of
international standards for 
disease control
- Training in the control of 
transboundary animal movement
- Risk analysis, assessment and 
management
- Epidemiosurveillance and 
international standards of animal 
health
- Upgrading of personnel skills of 
veterinary epidemiology and 
biostatistics- Upgrading animal health network 
countrywide through mobile 
vehicles for containment of any 
disease outbreak and to facilitate vaccination campaigns
- Kits, vehicles and lab equipment 
for epidemiosurveillance and 
fieldwork
- Computer networking of veterinary
management countrywide and 
support of the national veterinary 
homepage technically and at the 
personnel level- Difficulties in joining
the Continental project 
of Pan-African project 
of PACE(Lack of finance)
Plant health
Contact detailsGeneral Organization for Veterinary Services
1st Nadi El-Seid St., Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
Tel:  +(202) 74 81 750/751
Fax:  +(202) 33 50 692/33 61 727
E-mail:  aidaros@dns.claes.sci.eg;  haidaros@netscape.netG/SPS/GEN/295/Add.1
Page 4
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
(Such information could include, inter alia, a more detailed 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 assistance and the scope for a coordinated approach among
relevant international organisations.)
__________