1. ASEAN OBJECTIVES FOR VETERINARY LEGISLATION
ASEAN Secretariat
OIE Global Conference on Veterinary Legislation Modernising veterinary Legislation for Good Governance
Djerba, Tunisia, 2010
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2. Outline Introduction ASEAN Views on TADs and Zoonotic
ASEAN Community Building
ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Livestock
ASEAN Objectives on Veterinary Legislation
Conclusion
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3. ASEAN Member States Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Indonesia Lao PDR
Malaysia
Myanmar
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Viet Nam
Brunei Darussalam joined the Association on 8 January Viet Nam became the seventh member of ASEAN on 28 July Lao PDR and Myanmar were admitted into ASEAN on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999.

4. Narrowing the Development Gap Initiative for ASEAN Integration
ASEAN Community
ASEAN
Political-
Security
Community
(APSC)
ASEAN
Economic
Community
(AEC)
ASEAN
Socio-
Cultural
Community
(ASCC)
Narrowing the Development Gap
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5. ASEAN Community 2015 Second Work Plan for IAI
Political-Security Community
Economic Community
Socio-Cultural Community
Second Work Plan for IAI
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6. ASEAN Community Building 2015
Key functions (Some key goals of the ASEAN Community Building):
Safeguarding animal health and welfare
Improving public health
Food Security and Food safety
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7. ASEAN Views on TADs and Zoonotic
TADs and Zoonotic Disease
Food Security
Food Safety
Livelihoods
Public Health
Obstacle to Intra-extra ASEAN Trade
Potential impact of climate change
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8. ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Livestock (ASWGL)
Strengthening National Capability
Strengthening regional coordination
Supporting animal health sector
Enhancing partnership arrangements and cooperation
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9. 1. Strengthening Veterinary Services
Bedrock for national and regional building blocks
OIE Program on Strengthening Veterinary Services (PSVS) in South East Asia, funded by AusAID
Provision under ASEAN-OIE MOU
Key areas: veterinary legislation and governance, emergency preparedness and response, animal health communication, and quality assurance systems for laboratories.
ASWGL agreed that regular update of the PSVS be included in the agenda of future meetings of ASWGL
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10. 2. Strengthening Regional Coordination on Animal Health
ASEAN Study on Regional Coordination on Animal Health and Zoonoses
Decision on regional coordination mechanisms (RCM), transitional arrangement and linkages between RCM and priority disease strategies (HPAI and SEAFMD)
AAHTF
To finance ASEAN animal health projects (Approved by AMAF through SOM AMAF)
Priority - Transboundary animal diseases (TADs) crucial to ASEAN, namely HPAI, FMD and CSF
ARAHIS and WAHIS
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11. 3. Supporting Animal Health Sector Towards Greater Multi-sectoral Health Cooperation
Joint Recommendation on Animal-Human Health Collaboration and Work Plan (endorsed by SOM-AMAF and SOMHD)
Rabies - “Call for Action towards the Elimination of Rabies in the ASEAN Member States and the Plus Three Countries”
ASEAN Pandemic Preparedness and Response
One World, One Health
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12. 4. Enhancing Partnership and Cooperation, among Partners/Agencies
SPS Committee under ASEAN Trade in Good Agreement (ATIGA)
FTAs between ASEAN and Dialogue Partners
MoU with OIE and FAO
AMAF Plus Three Cooperation on Animal Health
EC Regional Cooperation Programme on Highly Pathogenic and Emerging Diseases (HPED) in Asia (EC-HPED) – FAO, OIE and WHO components for ASEAN
ASEAN-ADB HPAI Project and beyond
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13. ASEAN Objectives on Veterinary Legislation
Veterinary legislation and governance should be seen in the light of developing a rules based ASEAN Community that expected to improve the capacities of Veterinary authorities.
ASEAN recognised the need for the Member States to bestow hard effort to build-up their respective veterinary services and infrastructure to attain the international standard setting bodies’ requirement.
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14. ASEAN Objectives on Veterinary Legislation
ASEAN is in full support of the OIE Performance of Veterinary Services (PVS) pathway
ASEAN-OIE MOU section 2 (1) :OIE shall assist the ASEAN Member States in“ strengthening veterinary services by supporting training courses in veterinary field” signed on the 3rd of June 2008.
32nd AMAF meeting, 24 October 2010, Cambodia, acknowledged the importance of partnership and support provided for technical support and capacity building in veterinary services.
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15. Conclusion
With legislative support, veterinary authorities will be able to foster the development of the sector as well as to ensure the quality and safety of livestock products throughout the production and market chain for achieving robust, healthy, progressive and secure community.
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