| Project Detail |
Electronic certification (eCert), and intermediate technologies to achieve this goal, is key to supporting robust food-safety systems’ supply chain efficiency and trade facilitation. The topic was last raised in APEC in 2021 in the workshop “Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Document Digitalization, What Industry and Economies Need: Seminar to Collect Perspectives on E-Certification in the Past and Future,” as well as on the margins of the Codex Committee on Food Import Export Inspection and Certification Systems in 2018. This project will connect eCert Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), regulators, and government officials engaged in trade facilitation. The workshop will recognize the stages that may be necessary to transition to the paperless exchange of electronic certificates, e.g. as indicated in Codex Guidance (CXG 38-2001, Annex II). The project will include a workshop during SOM 3 in Lima, Peru, to highlight how eCert can improve the efficiency and security of import and export certification, specifically for animal products; how eCert uses technology to support regulatory objectives; and how eCert benefits both regulators and industry in eliminating unnecessary paper processes, expediting certification, enhancing security, and supporting more rapid resolution of questions and problems when they occur. |
