APPROVED VERSION – COMMITTEE OF THE MINISTERS OF TRADE - 17 July 2014 - SADC/CMT/26/2014/8.2 low pest or disease prevalence, taking into account any relevant conditions, including those relating to transportation and handling. 6. Member States shall, in adopting, maintaining or applying sanitary or phytosanitary measures relating to the introduction, establishment or spread of an animal disease or plant pest, accord a product produced in a pest-free or disease-free area in the territory of another Member State no less favorable treatment than it accords a product produced in a pest-free or disease-free area, in another country, that poses the same level of risk. 7. Member States shall where appropriate adopt and use equivalent risk assessment guidelines developed by CAC, OIE and IPPC to evaluate relevant conditions and controls in the pest-free or disease-free area and in the area surrounding that area and take into account any relevant conditions, including those relating to transportation and handling. 8. An importing Member State may upon request, pursue an agreement with an exporting Member State, on specific requirements the fulfillment of which allows a product produced in an area of low pest or disease prevalence in the territory of an exporting Member State to be imported into the territory of the importing Member State. ARTICLE 10 Transparency 1. Member States shall provide all required notifications and information in accordance with Appendix A to this Annex and WTO transparency guidelines. 2. Member States shall, in notifying the World Trade Organization copy the same notification to the SADC Secretariat. ARTICLE 11 Control, Inspection and Approval Procedures 1. Each Member State shall, upon the request of any other Member State, following the procedures set down from time to time by the relevant international organisations (Appendix B), give consideration with a view to accepting the relevant control, inspection and approval procedures of another Member State, provided it is satisfied that these achieve the same outcomes as its own regulatory requirements. 2. Each Member State shall upon request and in accordance with its international obligations and applicable laws, regulations and policies, review its inspection, testing, certification and other relevant import and export approval systems or procedures to ensure these are reasonable and necessary, so as to further facilitate access of traded products to its territory. Page 10 of 18