Monthly Archives: October 2010

Recognising the need to streamline the rules of origin procedures to facilitate trade of ASEAN originating goods, the 23rd AFTA Council (Bangkok, August 2009) endorsed the “Work Plan Toward Operationalisation of Self Certification”. According to this Work Plan, all Member States would implement an ASEAN Self Certification Scheme by 2012. On 1 November 2010, three [...]

1. The 18th ASEAN-EU Joint Co-operation Committee (JCC) Meeting was held on 30 November 2010 at the ASEAN Secretariat and attended by the Committee of Permanent Representatives to ASEAN, the European Commission and the ASEAN Secretariat. The Meeting was co-chaired by Her Excellency Pengiran Hajjah Basmillah Pengiran Haji Abbas, Permanent Representative of Brunei Darussalam to ASEAN [...]

“Improved transport infrastructure has opened access to our remote town and brought development and tourists to the place,” noted a resident in a rural area in the ASEAN region. “I can now transport my cargoes from point A to point B in the region seamlessly,” noted an entrepreneur whose business transports goods across borders in [...]

We, ministers and delegates in charge of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) cooperation from ASEAN Member States and China attended the 2nd ASEAN-China-Ministerial Meeting on Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (SPS Cooperation) with the theme “Strengthening Animal and Plant Inspection and Quarantine Cooperation, Preventing the Cross-Border Spread of Exotic Pests” on 25 October 2010, in Phnom [...]

1. The ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministers of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea held their Tenth Meeting in Phnom Penh on 24 October 2010, under the chairmanship of H.E. Dr. Chan Sarun, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cambodia. 2. The Ministers reaffirmed their strong [...]

ASEAN Ministerial Statement on“ASEAN Cooperation on Animal Health and Zoonoses: Avian Influenza and Beyond”  1.  We, the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam, during the 32nd AMAF Meeting on 24 October 2010, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, under the Chairmanship of H.E. Mr. [...]