In the early 1990s, the OIE World Assembly of Delegates (the Assembly) gave the OIE the responsibility of compiling a list of Member Countries or zones that could officially be recognised as being free from certain diseases. To this end, the OIE developed a clearly defined and impartial procedure for declaring a Member Country free from a specific disease. In May 1995, the Assembly adopted a new procedure, which called upon the OIE Commission for Foot and Mouth Disease and other Epizootics (since renamed the OIE Scientific Commission for Animal Diseases) to examine in detail, and in accordance with the requirements of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code (Terrestrial Code), dossiers submitted by the Delegates of Member Countries to support their claim that their countries could be considered free of foot and mouth disease (FMD).
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