1. Disease prevention and control: New and revised chapters of Section 4
Dr Etienne Bonbon
President of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission
Disease prevention and control:
New and revised chapters of Section 4
of the OIE Terrestrial Code
14th Conference of the OIE Regional Commission for the Middle East
Istanbul, 3 October 2017

2. OIE 6th STRATEGIC PLAN

3. OIE 6th STRATEGIC PLAN

4. Agenda OIE Terrestrial Code Commission: current work
OIE Terrestrial Code: Section 4
Code Commission meeting of September 2017
Responsibilities of the Delegates
Disease prevention and Control: the tools

5. OIE Terrestrial Code Commission: current work
The Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission (Code Commission) met between 18 and 29 September
It revised over 20 existent or new texts

6. Work Programme (not exhaustive…)
OIE Code Commission
Work Programme (not exhaustive…)
Glossary (disease; zoning; other)
Criteria for listing, Tb, LSD, ASF (adopted 2017, comments from General Session)
Section 4 (Zoning, Vaccination, Outbreaks…)
Section 6 (Introduction, Role of VS, AMR…)
Section 7 (Introduction, Pigs, Laying Hens, Slaughter of Reptiles)
Glanders, Theileriosis, Trypanosomoses
Future: FMD, CSF, AI, other: tse-tse, CCHF?

7. OIE Terrestrial Code Commission: current work
Current important work relating to the Section 4 of Terrestrial Code on disease prevention and control, which will no more be only “general recommendations” but more detailed and useful guidance for the Member Countries

8. OIE Terrestrial Code: Section 4
Revision of key chapters
Drafting of new chapters
Future work

9. Terrestrial Code – Section 4
Current and future chapters
New Chapter 4.Z. = Introduction
Revised Chapter 4.3. = Zoning, global
New Chapter 4.X. = Vaccination
New Chapter 4.Y. = Official control programmes = essential new work
Revised chapters on embryos, semen
Revised chapter on disinfection
Future chapter on biosecurity

10. Code Commission meeting of September 2017
Code Commission discussions in September:
Answers to general and specific comments from Member Countries

11. Code Commission meeting of September 2017
Code Commission discussions in September:
Discussions/Exchanges with Specialist Commissions, especially the Scientific Commission for Animal Diseases

12. Responsibilities of the Delegates
Importance, for the standard setting procedure on such important chapters, to get as much arguments as possible from Member Countries, in order that the texts adopted receive the strongest support

13. Responsibilities of the Delegates
Delegates: how to fully participate in the standard setting process
Need for a greater participation from the Middle East Region

14. Disease prevention and Control: the tools
Need for the development of tools to help Member Countries implement those standards in their territories
Some tools already exist
Need for commitment… and money

15. Disease prevention and Control: the tools
More collaboration and cooperation between countries and regions
More collaboration with the International Organisations involved in disease prevention and control, such as the FAO and the WHO

16. Disease prevention and Control: the tools
Tools exist!
Evaluation Tools (OIE PVS for global, FAO SET for Surveillance, FAO LMT for lab mapping
Training Tools (OIE on Standards, FAO GEMP on Emergency, Surveillance etc.)

17. WE NEED TO MOVE FROM TALK TO ACTION… TOGETHER!
WE NEED TO REALISE THAT THERE IS « SOME DISTANCE FROM THE GLASS TO THE MOUTH »
WE NEED TO MOVE FROM TALK TO ACTION… TOGETHER!