Working Groups

Initiatives under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) cover areas as diverse as border security, the environment, e-commerce and pandemic influenza management. A broad range of expertise is required to address such complex issues. The effort is divided among a number of inter-departmental Working Groups, which in turn guide the efforts of a number of federal departments and agencies involved in the creation or revision of policies, services and agreements related to each initiative. Each Working Group is responsible for a specific facet of the SPP's undertakings. The objectives of these groups are updated as initiatives are achieved and others added.

The Security Agenda is being dealt with by ten working groups addressing ten goals:

• Traveller Security
• Cargo Security
• Border Facilitation
• Aviation Security
• Maritime Security
• Law Enforcement
• Intelligence Cooperation
• Bio-protection
• Emergency Management
• Science and Technology

The Prosperity Agenda is being pursued by nine different working groups:

• E-Commerce and Information and Communications Technologies
• Energy
• Environment
• Financial Services
• Food and Agriculture Regulatory Systems
• Health
• Manufactured Goods and Sectoral and Regional Competitiveness
• Movement of Goods
• Transportation