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Find documents  back to top

• 2008 Transparency Procedures

• Transparency in special treatment for developing countries

• Transparency: level of implementation

• The SPS work and documents page contains a range of links for searching documents

• The SPS Information Management System, offers a wide range of search criteria for notifications, trade concerns and other SPS information. (What is SPS-IMS?)

• Subscribe here to receive all unrestricted SPS documents by e-mail, usually twice a week, but normally only in the original language (English, French or Spanish).

Notification formats  back to top

Download:

• The complete set

Separately:

• Routine notification — Addendum — Corrigendum — Revision
• Emergency notification — Addendum — Corrigendum — Revision
• Notification of determination of the recognition of equivalence
• Notification on availability of translations

Resources  back to top

• Mentoring system for national notification authorities and enquiry points

• Procedural step-by-step manual for SPS national notification authorities and SPS national enquiry points
  Includes: resources required, how to prepare a notification, how to manage incoming notifications, how to alert stakeholders, how to draft some standard letters. Download in pdf format. Published February 2009

• Workshop on Transparency 15-16 October 2007

• Handbook: How to apply the transparency provisions of the SPS Agreement
  A practical guide for member governments’ officials on how to notify measures to the WTO, establish an enquiry point, and respond to enquiries. Download in MS Word or pdf format. Published September 2002.
  > Interactive course: SPS Handbook

Links to member governments’ SPS websites  back to top

• Member governments’ SPS websites

• See also enquiry points and notification authorities