Glossary

• Codex: The FAO/WHO Joint Codex Alimentarius Commission.
  
  
• FAO: The Food and Agriculture Organization.
  
  
• GATT: The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, established in 1947.
  The abbreviation is used both with reference to the legal text and to the institution.
  
  
• GATT 1994: The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as revised in 1994, which is part of the WTO Agreements.
  
  
• IPPC: The Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention, based in the FAO: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
  
  
• OIE: The Office International des Epizooties, also known as the World Animal Health Organization.
  
  
• SPS: Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures, as defined by the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.
  
  
• TBT: Technical barriers to trade, as covered by the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. References to the previous GATT agreement by the same name are indicated as the "1979" TBT Agreement.
  
  
• WHO: The World Health Organization of the United Nations.