WOAH: Terrestrial Animal Health Standards for Comment
Last Modified: April 05, 2024
The Code Commission helps ensure the Terrestrial Animal Health Code (Terrestrial Code) reflects current scientific information. The Terrestrial Code contains international standards for trade, disease prevention, and disease control for terrestrial animals and their products.
APHIS provides the draft standards ("Part A" standards and "Part B" standards) below and invites stakeholders to comment.
- "Part A" standards are proposed for adoption in May.
- "Part B" standards will go through additional rounds of comments before being proposed for adoption.
To provide comments:
- Download the files below that correspond to the standards you wish to review.
- Edit the specific text you are commenting on by proposing text changes (that is, edit the text the way you believe it should read) using “Track Changes” in Microsoft Word.
- Add a “comment” with the supporting scientific or other rationale for each of your proposed text changes using “Track Changes” in Microsoft Word.
- Submit your proposed changes to usa.oie.iahs@usda.gov no later than the due dates below.
- Deadline for comments on Part A chapters: Monday, April 15, 2024
- Deadline for comments on Part B chapters: Friday, June 7, 2024
Standards Proposed for Adoption (Part C)
Previous Terrestrial Proposed Drafts and Comments
Standards Proposed for Adoption (Part A)
Standards Proposed for Comment (Part B)
| September 2023 Chapters | USA Comments submitted |
|---|---|
| Annex 3 Work Programme (77.17 KB) | No comments submitted |
| Annex 24 User’s Guide (52.97 KB) | No comments submitted |
| Annex 25 Glossary (40.04 KB) | Annex 25 Glossary (40.76 KB) |
| Annex 26 Chapter 4.X. Biosecurity (75.57 KB) | No comments submitted |
| Annex 27 Chapter 5.4. Exportation of commodities (47.12 KB) | No comments submitted |
| Annex 28 Chapter 5.6. Importation of commodities (48.8 KB) | No comments submitted |
| Annex 29 Chapter 7.1. Introduction recommendations for animal welfare (94.6 KB) | Annex 29 Chapter 7.1. Introduction recommendations for animal welfare (95.18 KB) |
| Annex 30 Chapter 8.Y. Infection with Nipah virus (44.81 KB) | Annex 30 Chapter 8.Y. Infection with Nipah virus (45.46 KB) |
| Annex 31 Chapter 14.8. Scrapie (45.49 KB) | No comments submitted |
Standards Proposed for Adoption (Part A)
Standards Proposed for Comment (Part B)
| September 2022 Proposed Standards (Part B) | USA Comments Submitted to OIE |
|---|---|
| Chapter 4.6. General Hygiene in Semen Collection, Processing and Storage (60.73 KB) | Comments submitted (62.22 KB) |
| Chapter 6.10. Responsible and Prudent Use of Antimicrobial Agents in Veterinary Medicine (98.11 KB) | Comments submitted (113.98 KB) |
| Chapter 8.X. Infection With Coxiella Burnetii (Q Fever) (39.48 KB) | Comments submitted (37.23 KB) |
| Chapter 11.5. Infection With Mycoplasma mycoides Subsp. Mycoides SC (Contagious Bovine Pleuropnuemonia) (74.1 KB) | Comments submitted (72.48 KB) |
| Chapter 11.X. Infection With Bovine Pestiviruses Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (39.83 KB) | No comments submitted |
| Chapter 12.1. Infection With African Horse Sickness Virus (61.85 KB) | Comments submitted (62.81 KB) |
| Chapter X.Z. Infection With Camelpox Virus (40.49 KB) | Comments Submitted (38.86 KB) |
| Work Programme for the Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission (68.91 KB) | Comments submitted (68.19 KB) |
Terrestrial Animal Code Commission Reports
Previous Reports
- Report of the Meeting of WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission, Sept 2023 (woah.org)
- Report of the Meeting of WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission, February 2023
- Report of the Meeting of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission, September 2022
- Report of the Meeting of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission, Part B, February 2022
- Report of the Meeting of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission, Part A, February 2022
- Full Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission Report, September 2021
- Full Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission Report, February 2021