ACP EU TBT Programme

The Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Programme was a €15 million demand-driven trade-related technical assistance facility covering the period 2013-2017. The Programme funded by the European Union at the request of the ACP Group of States ended in June 2017 and before its finalisation the Programme Management Unit applied a selection process to identify key outputs produced during the lifetime of the Programme for ready access by ACP beneficiaries.

These outputs are classified around 4 key TBT areas, i.e. Accreditation and Certification; Standardisation; QI and Training. The documents selection was made on the basis of four criteria namely: quality of the output; replicability; non-confidentiality and approval by the beneficiary.

The documents available on this page cover different aspects of Quality Infrastructure (QI) such as:

• National QI policy definition and institutional framework
• Trade Regulatory Impact Assessments
• Draft of technical regulations: good regulatory practice guidelines
• GRP methodology and the harmonisation of procedures
• Risk Management Assessments in Regulatory Frameworks
• Development and harmonization of Standards (Regional and national); value chain approach
• Proposal of regulations and codes of practices to effective and gradual implementation of standards
• Mutual recognition arrangements
• Laboratories accreditation: mainly gap analysis and needs assessments
• E-learning Programme Platforms on Accreditation and Legal Metrology
• SMEs coaching for certification
• Training material such as training of trainers

To access the documents, please click on the following links:

• TBT Programme selected outputs on Certification & Accreditation 
• TBT Programme selected outputs on Quality Infrastructure
• TBT Programme selected outputs on Standardisation
• TBT Programme selected outputs on Training

Enjoy your reading and be sure to contact either the ACP Secretariat or the European Commission with any queries that you may have.