A regulatory dialogue visit to support official inspections on EU exports of pork products to Thailand Spain, 7-18 March 2022
This Regulatory Visit aims at demonstrating the robustness of the EU regulatory systems applied to the production and exportation of pork meat and pork products to Thailand. This activity is aiming to improve a better mutual understanding of the EU sanitary rules and control systems in place and to improve conditions for the EU meat industry to access the Thai market.
Due to Covid-19, some unforeseen issues that have emerged are affecting the market access protocols. The official inspections are an important step in the market access which are usually performed by the competent authorities of the non-EU countries in the European establishments. These inspections have been suspended for more than 2 years now.
A team of officials from Thailand Department of Livestock Development (DLD), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives visited some establishments and discuss with their counterparts in the European Union, EU MS and Reference Laboratories.
This first regulatory dialogue visit was organised in Spain. The Spanish competent authorities were requested to provide speakers and experts to discuss the relevant topic defined in the event program and high-level Officials were invited to meet the delegation of Thai officials during their visit in order to discuss important topics, issues and comments on the Thai market access.
The visit also served to inform the Thai authorities on the harmonised application of EU food law, related official controls and assurances given by the European pork producers in general.