USDA - APHIS - OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards

Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission (Proposed Drafts and Updates)

Instructions for Submitting Comments*
Step 1: Identify the "specific text" you are commenting on;
Step 2: Write The specific proposed text changes (Rewrite the text the way it should read); and
Step 3: Include the supporting scientific rationale for your proposed change of the text.

(All comments should be clearly stated, specific to the text within the proposed document, and supported by a scientific rationale.)*

Note: Please do not use the automatic "track-change" function provided by word processing software as such changes are lost in the OIE's process of collating submitted comments into the Code Commissions working documents.

Section 1

The following three (3) chapters in Section 1 below are new, therefore, you may comment on any part of the document. Please identify the article in the chapter you are commenting on, propose new language (if any) and provide a scientific rationale for your proposed language.

September 2012 Report (Comments due by December 14, 2012)

Draft Proposals September 2012	Comments Submitted to OIE	Proposed for Adoption at the General Session May 2013
Infection with Echinococcus multilocularis (pdf) (rtf)
Infection with Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (pdf) (rtf)
Infection with Trichinella spp (pdf) (rtf)

Section 2

For the following 32 chapters, you may comment only on the changes - The OIE shows the proposed changes as text that is double-underlined (new text) or text that has a strike-through (deleted text). You may comment only on these changes.

*NOTE: Please send all comments on Animal Welfare issues directly to Paul.G.Egrie@aphis.usda.gov

September 2012 Report (Comments due by December 14, 2012)

Draft Proposals September 2012	Comments Submitted to OIE	Proposed for Adoption at the General Session May 2013
*Animal Welfare and beef cattle production systems (pdf) (rtf)
*Animal Welfare and broiler chicken production systems (pdf) (rtf)
Biosecurity procedures in poultry production (pdf) (rtf)
Bluetongue (pdf) (rtf)
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (pdf) (rtf)
Collection and processing of bovine, small ruminant, and porcine semen (pdf) (rtf)
Collection and processing of in vivo derived embryos from livestock and equids (pdf) (rtf)
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (pdf) (rtf)
Evaluation of Veterinary Sservices (pdf) (rtf)
Glossary (pdf) (rtf)
Harmonisation national antimicrobial resistance surveillance and monitoring programmes (pdf) (rtf)
Infection honey bees with melissococcus plutonius and european foulbrood (pdf) (rtf)
Infection with viruses of avian influenza (pdf) (rtf)
Infection with chlamydophila abortus (pdf) (rtf)
Infection with echinococcus granulosis (pdf) (rtf)
Infestation honey bees with acarapis woodi (pdf) (rtf)
Infestation honey bees with paenibacillus larvae american foulbrood (pdf) (rtf)
Infestation honey bees with tropilaelaps (pdf) (rtf)
Infestation honey bees with varroa (pdf) (rtf)
Infestation with aethina tumida (pdf) (rtf)
Introduction to the recommendation for controlling antimicrobial resistance (pdf) (rtf)
*Introduction to the recommendations for Animal Welfare (pdf) (rtf)
Notification of diseases, infections, infestations and epidemiological information (pdf) (rtf)
Official health control of bee diseases (pdf) (rtf)
Procedures for self declaration and for official recognition by the OIE (pdf) (rtf)
Responsible and prudent use of antimicrobial agents in veterinary medicine (pdf) (rtf)
Rinderpest (pdf) (rtf)
Use of animals in research and education (pdf) (rtf)
Zoonoses transmitssible from non-human primates (pdf) (rtf)