The department of Agriculture and Fisheries Resources at the Economic Affairs of the Secretariat General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf hereinafter (GCC), is privileged to print the GCC Guide for the Control of Imported Food. The GCC Ministers in charge of Food Safety adopted the amendments on the first version at their 3rd meeting held at the GCC Headquarter in June 2016. Printing this guide is based on the believe of the General Secretariat of the (GCC) in the dissemination of information in all transparency to allow anyone to get an access to it achievements, regulations and all the materials related to the joint cooperation among its member states. The GCC believes it important that interested parties and people should be familiar with the achievements of the (GCC) and make use of those references in various specializations as well giving chances for the others to realize on the decisions adopted by the GCC countries in the field of systems and common legislation. This guide is one of many achievements adopted jointly in the area of food safety.
The GCC states import most of its consuming food and...