ACP EU TBT Programme

The TBT Programme has assembled a number of ressources through the collaboration with national, regional and international partners. Below you will find links to documents from key Quality Infrastructure entities, ACP regional economic communities, Think Tanks and international organisations presenting strategic information, official declarations and reflections at the african, european and international levels on the TBT issues. More info here.

ACP REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMMUNITY

• The COMESA Standards, Metrology, Conformity Assessment and Accreditation Policy, June 2009
• ECOWAS Standards Harmonization Model

EU INFORMATION

• What is CE Marking, DG Enterprise?
• New Communication on EU-Trade Strategy, DG Trade

INTEGRATED PAN-AFRICAN QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE

• Integrated Pan-African Quality Infrastructure Memorandum of Understanding concerning standardisation, accreditation and metrology, May 2013
• ARSO strategic plan 2012-2017
• AFRIMETS Roadmap
• AFRAC presentation
• AFRAC New Members Orientarion, Sept 2014
• AFSEC action plan 2015-2017

TBT PROGRAMME INSIGHTS 

• Accreditation
• Metrology
• Standards
• Certification
• Quality certifiction schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs
• EU-US Transatlantic trade and investment partnership
• The important of legal metrology to the Caribbean
• Technical Barriers to trade induced by mega regional trade agreements and their impact on ACP countries
• ACP perspective in relation to food standards in mega-regional trade agreements