DR - Legislation Flashcards
What does VPH do?
Veterinary Public Health
Deals with the part of public health that uses the knowledge skills and resources of veterinary medicine to restore or maintain human health and wellbeing.
How does the WHO support member states in surveillance and control of zoonoses?
Collaboration with Regional offices and the OIE.
What does the FAO aim to do?
a specialised agency of UN to lead international efforts to defeat hunger. Achieving food security is one of the main objectives. It has an Animal Health and Production Division
Define EMPRES
Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases - a part of the UN’s Animal Health and Production division
Define GREP
Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme
What is the Codex Allimentarius Commission
Created in 1963 by the FAO and WHO
to develop food standards, guidelines and related codes of practice.
Main aims are to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in international food trade.
Define eradication
reduction of a disease’s prevalence in the global host population to zero - don’t confuse with elimination
What are the 2 OIE trade standards?
THe Terrestrial Animal Health Code
The Aquatic Animal Health Code
Define WAHIS
World Animal Health Information System
Since early 2005, OIE has operated a global electronic reporting system for animal diseases.
Define GLEWS
Global Early Warning System for animal diseases
run by FAO and WHO
What are ‘treaties’?
the primary legislation, - the constitutional law of the EU. THey are created bygovernments form all EU memeber states acting by consensus and stipulate the basic policies of teh EU
What do EU secondary legislations include?
regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opitions
Define Regulation
A piece of EU secondary legislation
It is a legislative act of the EU which become simmediately enforceable as law in all member states simultaneously. They are directly applicable so don’t need to be transferred into national law
Define Directive
A piece of EU secondary legislation
It is a legislative act of the EU which requires member states to achieve a particular utocome without dictating hte means of achieving that result.
Define Decision
A piece of EU secondary legislation
It is EU law which is not of general but individual application - i.e. only applies to one addressee. Distinguished from a directive by being binding in its entirety.
