Legal Regulations Under The WTO System Of Food Safety Issues

With improved living standards, high-end consumer demand for safe food is also increasing, prompting the international food trade industry increasingly developed on this objective, but also consumers pay more attention to food quality and safety. In order to safeguard life and property safety and national interests of the nationals of all countries in the brains of developing and improving food safety issues related to legal regulation and set about trade barriers. In order to safeguard human life and health at the same time, but also point to better balance the interests of all countries, Member States WTO after several rounds of negotiations, after negotiations under the WTO framework on food safety system has developed two important significance protocol: "TBT agreement"(the TBT agreement) and "on sanitary and Phytosanitary measures agreement"(the SPS agreement). How to promote the liberalization of food trade at the same time, better maintenance of human and plant life and health, is an important issue to be studied.The first chapter introduces some basic theories related to food safety, internatio nal trade and the concept of legal liability system for food safety, including food safet y. International trade legal responsibility for food safety is also a need to focus on the problem, the issue of liability is mainly reflected in the liability and compensation sta ndards and other food safety issues arising. This chapter will also focus Overview Th e evolution and development of legal liability issues.The second chapter introduces the legal system of import and export food trade under the WTO system. I first from the "technical barriers to trade agreement"(hereinafter referred to as the "TBT agreement") to establish the regulation of food safety regulation. "TBT agreement" is a WTO member state after many rounds of negotiations to reach an important agreement with food safety rules, is an important part of the WTO rules. This chapter discusses in detail the "TBT agreement" on the provisions of technical regulations and food safety general theory and the "TBT agreement" on conformity assessment procedures and the general theory of food safety.The third chapter mainly introduces the WTO has not yet developed specific regulation on food safety laws and regulations, with the process of economic globalization, in international trade in food safety problems have occurred, a settlement of the dispute is mainly according to WTO members reached agreement, this chapter mainly to the on sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Agreement "(hereinafter referred to as the" SPS Agreement ") perspective, combined with research scholars at home and abroad of the provisions of the interpretation, and protocol in some key principles and difficult concepts for further analysis, in-depth understanding of.The fourth chapter is to return to China, mainly to summarize the relevant issues of domestic food safety, and to improve the legal rules of food safety in our country. China is an international trade country, the international trade volume ranks second in the world. However, in the field of international trade in the field of food safety has repeatedly by the national technical trade barriers constraints. At the same time, the legal regulation of food safety in China still belongs to the initial stage, on food safety in WTO related rules and regulations of the ultimate goal is examining our own presence in the fields related problems and puts forward relevant suggestions.