Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Agreement reached by a Member with another country or countries on issues related to technical regulations, standards or conformity assessment procedures - Notification - Namibia

AGREEMENT REACHED BY A MEMBER WITH ANOTHER COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES
ON ISSUES RELATED TO TECHNICAL REGULATIONS, STANDARDS
OR CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES

NOTIFICATION

Under Article 10.7 of the Agreement "Whenever a Member has reached an agreement with any other country or countries on issues related to technical regulations, standards or conformity assessment procedures which may have a significant effect on trade, at least one Member party to the agreement shall notify other Members through the Secretariat of the products to be covered by the agreement and include a brief description of the agreement." The following notification under Article 10.7 has been received.

 

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Notifying Member: Namibia

2.

Title of the bilateral or plurilateral Agreement: Agreement on mutual recognition of conformity assessment procedures as per SIIR recognition Scheme between Namibia and Botswana (Namibian Standards Institution (NSI) and Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS))

3.

Parties to the Agreement: Namibia; Botswana

4.

Date of entry into force of Agreement: 1 January 2015

5.

Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading): Canned fish and Cement products intended for the market of Botswana

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Subject matter covered by the Agreement (technical regulations, standards or conformity assessment procedures): Conformity assessment procedures

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Brief description of the Agreement: This recognition agreement allows BOBS to recognise the NSI as an approved Inspection body in accordance with the SIIR Recognition Scheme of Botswana for canned fish and cement products intended for the market of Botswana.

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Further information available from: Namibian Standards Institution (NSI)

37 Feld Street

P.O. Box: 26364, Windhoek

Namibia

Email: HambingaL@nsi.com.na

Phone: +(264) 61 386400; +(264) 61 386449

 

 

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