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chapter 13

The World Organisation for Animal Health’s

core missions in relation to laboratories
working in the veterinary domain

Jennifer Lasley

The need to fight animal diseases at the global with 71 other international and regional orga-
level led to the creation of the Office International nizations and has regional and sub-regional
des Epizooties, OIE, in 1924. In 2003, the Office Offices on every continent (Figure 13.1). 1
became the World Organisation for Animal
Health but kept its historical acronym, OIE.
The OIE is the intergovernmental organization 13.1 The OIE’s core missions
responsible for improving animal health world-
wide and is recognized as a standard-setting The OIE’s mandate is to improve animal health,
organization by the World Trade Organization animal welfare and veterinary public health
(WTO). In 2017, the OIE has a total of 181 worldwide. The OIE fulfils this mandate through
members and maintains permanent relations different core missions: developing international

Figure 13.1 OIE’s regional and subregional offices around the world, © OIE, 2018.

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