Lesson 6: Updating Existing Market Access Requirements

All countries, including the United States, seek to establish sanitary and phytosanitary measures that are appropriate at the time they are implemented. However, conditions change, and sanitary and phytosanitary measures need to be adapted to meet new conditions. This lesson will discuss reasons for updating sanitary and phytosanitary measures, an emergency mechanism for doing so, ways to write measures to avoid having to update them quite as frequently, and why it is a good idea to review existing measures, even if everything seems to be working fine.

- Andrew Malone

By the end of Lesson 6, you will be able to describe the three most common reasons for updating existing market access requirements and the methods to make these updates. The student will also be able to formulate a performance standard that describes a general condition to be met in order to authorize the importation of plant or animal products in place of a specific prescriptive requirement.

Topic 1: New Pests, New Treatments, and Other Reasons for Updating
Topic 2: Emergency Measures
Topic 3: Performance Standards vs. Prescriptive Requirements
Topic 4: Regulatory Review (Executive Order 13563)

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