MARRAKESH TREATY

The agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) calls

for a single institutional framework including the GATT.

AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE
Goal: undertake on market access, domestic support and export
subsidies. To establish a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading
system and other concerns and objectives noted in the preamble to
the agreement.
Long-term reform of agricultural trade and domestic policies
Stability for importing and exporting countries alike.
The agricultural package provides for commitments in the area
of market access, domestic support and export competition.
Market access, non-tariff border measures are replaced by
tariffs that provide substantially the same level of protection.:
maintenance of current access opportunities and the
establishment of minimum access tariff quotas (at reduced-tariff
rates) .
AGREEMENT ON SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES

Goal: food safety and animal and plant health regulations.

Governments have the right to take sanitary and phytosanitary

measures, in order to the extent necessary to protect human,
animal or plant life or health and should not arbitrarily
discriminate between Members where identical or similar
conditions prevail.

Members may maintain or introduce measures which result in

higher standards if there is scientific justification.

The agreement includes provisions on control, inspection and

approval procedures.