Cooperation Agreement between Lebanon and Romania in the veterinary field.

This Agreement is composed of 10 articles. The two Parts within their competences shall cooperate in the protection of their territory against diseases by applying special requirements and conditions on the importation, exportation and transit of living animals, animal products and feeds (art. 1). The Authorities in charge of implementing this Agreement are the Animal Resources Department-Ministry of Agriculture (Lebanon) and the National Agency for Animal Health-Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (Romania) (art. 2). The two Parts shall agree on facilitating the sanitary measures by applying dispositions of the International Epidemic Office (art. 3). The concerned Authority in the two Countries will inform its homologous about apparition of diseases of the List (A) provided for in the International Epidemic Office, the proportion of diffusion of diseases mentioned in Lists (A and B) and the sanitary requirements and conditions as well as the certifications for importation and exportation of the aforementioned products in Article 3 (art. 4). The Tow Parts agreed in exchange experiences related to veterinary field; exchange information and professional letters; result of research; exchange information about veterinary activities; legislation, regulations, laws concerning the veterinary field; exchange visits of experts and specialists; and allowing to the another Authority to carry out inspection and control in its country (art. 5). Organization of meeting, consultation and dispute settlement (art. 7). This Agreement is valid for 5 years renewable automatically unless a previous communication at least 6 months before (art. 10).