90 years… of transparency .

摘要

One of the OIE’s historic missions is to ensure transparency and improve our knowledge of the global animaldisease situation, including zoonoses.On becoming an OIE Member, each country undertakes to report upon the animal health situation within itsterritory in a timely and transparent manner.The OIE then disseminates the information to all the other Member Countries to enable them to protect themselves.These surveillance and monitoring procedures apply to both natural and intentional disease events.Since its inception, the OIE has come a long way in managing world animal health information. In 2006,it established the World Animal Health Information System, WAHIS, accompanying WAHIDinterface, and continues to manage and constantly develop them. These are the only tools thatexist for ensuring transparency in the global animal disease situation.