Vietnam and European Free Trade Association (Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein) are negotiating Free Trade Agreement (FTA) including negotiation on sanitary and phytosanitary systems (SPS) which plays an important role in facilitating the exports of Vietnamese agricultural products and seafood in the EFTA. To understand more about SPS which those countries apply as well as EFTA’s requirements on SPS cooperation during FTA negotiation, MOIT and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and VCCI organized:

Workshop “Introduce the SPS of EFTA”

At Hanoi:

Time: 8.30 am – 17.00 Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Venue: Room 101, 1^st floor, MOIT - 25 Ngo Quyen, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

At HCM:

Time: 8.30 am – 17.00 Thursday, October 3, 2013

Venue: 10 floor, VCCI – 171 Vo Thi Sau, 3 District, HCM

In addition, experts from EFTA countries introduced specific procedure applicable to the export of some certain goods into EFTA.

Download relevant materials here:

• EFTA Free Trade Agreements and SPS.pdf
• The SPS system in the EFTA States and the relationship to the EU - Requirements for market access in EFTA (part 1) .pdf
• The SPS system in the EFTA States and the relationship to the EU - Requirements for market access in EFTA (part 2) .pdf
• The SPS system in the EFTA States and the relationship to the EU.pdf

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• Workshop: "The ASEAN Economic Community and Leveraging Commitments under ASEAN Free Trade Agreements for Vietnam’s Key Export Sectors"
• Seminar: "VKFTA: 10 Years of Cooperation and Future Prospects"
• Conference: Vietnam's exports & the Supply Chain Due Diligence Requirements of European markets
• Conference: US Reciprocal Tariff & Vietnamese Businesses' Responses