In recent years the number of problems encountered by EU Member States exporting animals, products of animal origin, plants and plant products due to Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures applied by third countries continues to grow. To bring more transparency in the situation and to optimalize the efforts to resolve these issues, the Commission has established the SPS export database.

The information contained in this database has been provided by the agro-food industry, Member States, EC Delegations in Third Countries, Commission Services, and SPS notifications from the WTO.