This Summary Report provides the summary of the CTI Public – Private Dialogue (PPD) on Follow-up Initiative on Promoting Transparency Through the Improvement of Information Submitted in the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Notifications, held on 2 and 3 August 2025 in Incheon, Republic of Korea. 

The objective of the PPD was (1) to discuss the results of the Follow-up Study of APEC Economies’ Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Notifications on Quality and Completeness of Information (hereinafter, the Follow-up Study); (2) to exchange views about the main challenges faced by public and private sector due to quality and completeness of WTO’s SPS Notifications and (3) to discuss possible ways to improve the information provided in the items “Products covered" and "Description of content" by APEC members in its WTO’s SPS Notifications.

The expected outcome of this PPD, together with the study, is the development of a set of voluntary recommendations on specific items of SPS notifications to be endorsed by CTI before the end of 2025.