Via The Economic Times :
" In a recent meeting of the WTO committee on sanitary & phytosanitary measures in Geneva, the US and EU representatives protested that the restrictions were not justified as their exports did not violate the standards set by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
“We are well within our rights to impose the restrictions as we have been affected by the bird flu virus in the past and don’t want to take any risks,” a commerce department official said justifying India’s stand.
The EU representative pointed out that this concern had been discussed bilaterally for several years but India has gone beyond the OIE standards and applied restrictions.
Backing the claim, the US official argued India had maintained an emergency measure in one form or another since 2002 and its emergency notifications since 2004 had essentially blocked all imports.
Poultry and meat exports from the US and the EU were banned by several countries following the outbreak of the avian influenza. Subsequently, certain countries, such as the Philippines, have lifted the ban. India had also announced that import of unprocessed meat would no longer be blocked for reasons of avian influenza, but said only heat-treated pig meat could be allowed, a measure not in line with international standards, the EU said. "
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