Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Fourth Triennial Review of the Operation and Implementation of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade under Article 15.4

World Trade Organization G/TBT/19 14 November 2006 (06-5503) Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade FOURTH TRIENNIAL REVIEW OF THE OPERATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AGREEMENT on Technical Barriers to Trade under Article 15.4 I. INTRODUCTION 2 II. ELEMENTS OF THE Fourth TRIENNIAL REVIEW 2 A. Implementation And Administration Of The Agreement 2 B. Good Regulatory Practice 3 1. Aspects of Good Regulatory Practice 3 2. Regulatory Cooperation Between Members 4 3. Future Work 5 C. Conformity Assessment Procedures 5 1. Approaches to Conformity Assessment 6 2. International Standards, Guides or Recommendations 7 3. Facilitating the Recognition of Conformity Assessment Results 7 4. Future Work 9 D. Transparency 10 1. Publication of a Notice of Proposed Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment Procedures 10 2. Notifications of Proposed Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment Procedures of Local Governments at the Level Directly