21-25 February 2000: COMMITTEE - Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems (8th Session)

Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems
8th Session, Adelaide, 21-25 February 2000

• Revise the proposed draft guidelines for food import control systems for further comment and consideration at its next meeting;
• Forward the proposed draft guidelines for generic official certificate formats and the production and issuance of certificates to the Executive Committee for preliminary adoption;
• Revise the proposed draft guidelines for the utilization and promotion of quality assurance systems for further comment and consideration at its next meeting;
• Proceed with the development of proposed draft guidelines on the judgement of equivalence of sanitary measures associated with food inspection and certification systems subject to approval by the Executive Committee as new work;
• Proceed with the development of proposed draft guidelines on the judgement of equivalence of technical regulations associated with food inspection and certification systems for comment and consideration at its next meeting;
• Examine the Codex Guidelines for the Exchange of Information in Food Control Emergency Situations to determine whether or not the development of risk management guidelines for food control emergency situations involving international trade was necessary; and,
• Examine at its next meeting a document on the need for guidance on food export control systems.