Limitations and Development Agenda of WTO/SPS Agreement as a Food Safety Regulatory System (식품안전 규제 법제로서 WTO/SPS협정의 한계와 발전 과제)

LEE JIN-KYU (이진규)

doi:10.31839/DALR.2020.02.86.255

Limitations and Development Agenda of WTO/SPS Agreement as a Food Safety Regulatory System

DONG-A LAW REVIEW
2020, (86), pp.255-276
DOI : 10.31839/DALR.2020.02.86.255
Publisher : The Institute for Legal Studies Dong-A University
Research Area : Social Science > Law
Received : January 28, 2020
Accepted : February 21, 2020
Published : February 28, 2020

LEE JIN-KYU ¹

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ABSTRACT

Food has been a key issue that threatens health and safety in trade and other commerce, and these have consistently caused a lot of anxiety to consumers. These series of cases have led to solidifying the perception that food safety issues should be disciplined at an international level, with the focus of the SPS Agreement. The SPS Agreement, however, faced limitations on the lack of specificity as a public regulatory mechanism for food safety, and a lack of control over emerging private standards arising in the changing food market. Also, this agreement has failed to fundamentally address the difficulties faced by many developing countries as major food exporters as the level of each State's SPS measures has been higher. To overcome these limitations, the SPS Agreement must make up for its shortcomings in a practical way by fully utilizing the advantages of private standards. It is also necessary to build a common framework for supporting national capacity building in developing countries and improving the system of international standards with special reference to the SPS Agreement system.

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food safety, WTO, SPS Agreement, private standards, harmonization

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