WOAH: Terrestrial Animal Health Standards for Comment
Last Modified: December 03, 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 by clicking the links 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 Tuesday, December 3, 2024.
The "USA Comments Submitted to WOAH" will be uploaded promptly in the tables below.
Previous Terrestrial Proposed Drafts and Comments
Standards Proposed for Adoption (Part A)
Standards Proposed for Comment (Part B)
| February 2024 Chapters | USA Comments submitted |
|---|---|
| Annex 3 Work Programme (83.7 KB) | No comments submitted |
| Annex 22 User’s guide (59.1 KB) | No comments submitted |
| Annex 23 Chapter 7.1. Introduction to Animal Welfare (101.44 KB) | Chapter 7.1. Introduction to Animal Welfare (101.59 KB) |
| Annex 24 Chapter 7.6. Animal Welfare at the time of Killing (58 KB) | Chapter 7.6. Animal Welfare at the time of Killing (55.54 KB) |
| Annex 25 Chapter 8.Y. Nipah (45.62 KB) | Chapter 8.Y. Nipah (48.76 KB) |
| Annex 26 Chapters 12.3. Dourine (45.75 KB) | Chapter 12.3. Dourine (44.05 KB) |
Standards Proposed for Adoption (Part C)
- Explanatory Notes On ‘Five Domains’ Model (44.38 KB)
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
Please refer to the WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission listing of current and previous Meeting reports.