| English |
| tbt agreements |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun phrase
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| Grammatical label |
Countable; Plural
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| Term provenance |
Acronym + noun
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| Variant |
Agreements on Technical Barriers to Trade
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| Definition |
The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, signed as an integral part of the WTO agreement, is one of the 29 individual legal texts of the WTO Agreement which obliges Members to ensure that technical regulations, voluntary standards and conformity assessment procedures do not create unnecessary obstacles to trade.
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| Definition source |
ISO
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| Context |
Within the WTO, labelling has become a trade policy issue in many different fields, including food safety, in relation to both the TBT and the SPS agreements.
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| Context source |
White paper on food safety COM(1999)719 final
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| Subject field |
Food safety
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| Sub-field |
White paper on food safety: Commission's proposals
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| Related concept |
SPS agreement
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| fr |
Accords sur les obstacles techniques au commerce
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| it |
Accordi sugli ostacoli tecnici agli scambi
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| Reliability code |
3
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