Animals: Import Controls
Commons · Question 36242 · Tabled 6 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will have discussions with international counterparts on changes to the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the SPS Agreement) to support (a) zoo
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 7 Apr 2025
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures sets the overarching international rules on food safety, animal and plant health. It does not contain specifics on the movement of live animals. For zoo...