INTERNATIONAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Requests for Observer Status in the
Committee on Sanitary
and Phytosanitary Measures
Revision
This
document lists the international intergovernmental organizations which have
requested observer status in the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary
Measures.[1]
1 International Intergovernmental Organizations having observer status
on a regular basis
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
FAO International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC)
FAO/WHO Joint Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)*
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
International Trade Centre (ITC)
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
World Bank*
World Health Organization (WHO)
2 International Intergovernmental Organizations having observer status
on an ad hoc (meeting-by-meeting) basis
African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group)
African Union (AU)
Caribbean
Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA)
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS)
European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
Gulf Cooperation Council Standardization Organization (GSO)
Inter-American Institute for Agricultural Cooperation (IICA)
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Regional International Organization for Plant Protection and Animal
Health (OIRSA)
Southern African Development Community (SADC)
West African Economic and Monetary Union
(WAEMU)
3 International Intergovernmental Organizations whose request is
pending
Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC)
Center for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI)
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
International Cocoa Organization (ICCO)
International Vine and Wine Office (OIV)
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[1] Members wishing to consult the communications sent to the
Secretariat by the international intergovernmental organizations are invited to
contact Mrs Christiane Wolff (Agriculture and Commodities Division), office
1106.
* Observer status
in WTO subsidiary bodies provided through the WTO Agreements with the Fund and
the World Bank (WT/L/194 and WT/L/195).