Support to CARICOM National Standards Bureaus to Implement the Technical Barriers to Trade Provisions of the EPA – Phase II
Posted on: September 01, 2021
This support project is aimed at supporting the beneficial integration of the economies of the CARICOM Member States into the regional and the global economy by following the guidelines of the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) provision of the EU - CARIFORUM EPA. It was designed in partnership with the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) - the network of the 15 National Standards Bureaus (NSBs) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) with collateral beneficial interest to INDOCAL, the national Bureau of Standards of the Dominican Republic.
The project is based on 2 components
Component 1 - Efficiently and effectively apply EPA and WTO TBT principles, guidelines and recommendations to ensure compliance with international standards and in the application of quality infrastructure measures
Under this component will be reviewed and elaborated, in publishable quality, the Workbook to the CROSQ Regional Good Regulatory Practice (GRP) Guide and the Code of Practice of theoretical and application exercises to be used in the 15 Member States of CARICOM in e-copy PDF downloadable format. Those documents have been designed and developed under the ACP – TradeCom II project “Support to CARICOM National Standards Bureaus as Trade Related Institutions to Implement the Technical Barriers to Trade Provisions of the CARIFORUM-EU EPA” in 2019.
Component 1 - Efficiently and effectively apply EPA and WTO TBT principles, guidelines and recommendations to ensure compliance with international standards and in the application of quality infrastructure measures
After revision by the WTO expert(s) and subsequently validation by the 15 NSB CEOs and CROSQ Secretariat, the CROSQ Regional GRP Guide and National COP and the Workbook will be published in e-copy PDF downloadable format and a limited number of hard copies are shared with the African Organization for Standardization (ARSO) and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) for use.
This support project, started in July 2021 will have a duration of 4 months.
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