ASEAN Activities on Standards and Conformity Assessment

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• ASEAN Activities on Standards and Conformity
  Assessment
• CIRILA S. BOTOR
• Assistant Director
• Bureau of Product Standards
• PHILIPPINES

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• ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian
• Nations
• 1967 - Established with initial country
• members Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,
  Singapore and Thailand
• VISION - All countries in Southeast Asia
  cooperating actively towards regional
  peace, stability, progress and prosperity.

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• AFTA - ASEAN Free Trade Area
• CEPT - Common Effective
• Preferential Tariff
• ACCSQ - ASEAN Consultative
• Committee for standards and Quality

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The ACCSQ Technical Working Groups (TWG),
(1995-1997)

• TWG 1 Standards and Information
• TWG 2 Conformity Assessment
• and Accreditation
• TWG 3 Testing, calibration and Laboratory
  Accreditation

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The ACCSQ Strategic Plans (1998-2000)

• To streamline the implementation of the ACCSQ
  Work Programme to meet the objective of
  facilitating the TBT for the AFTA
• Set up of new working groups to replace the TWG

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The New ACCSQ Working Groups (WG)(1998 present)

• WG1 Mutual Recognition
• Arrangement (MRA)
• WG2 Regulations and Accreditation
• WG3 Standards and Conformity
• Assessment
• WG4 - Information

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Hanoi Plan of Action (December 1998)

• Harmonization of product standards through
  alignment with international standards
• Implement the ASEAN Framework Agreement on MRA
  through the development of Sectoral MRAs
• Enhance technical infrastructure and competency
  by 2005
• strengthen information networking on standards
  and technical regulations

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ACCSQ with dialogue partners

• ASEAN-CER (1996), MOU concerning cooperation on
  standards and conformance
• ASEAN-MITI (Japan)( 1996 2000) TQM Project
  (second phase)
• ASEAN-EU (1998 2000), Regional cooperation
  programme on standards, quality and conformity
  assessment (second phase)
• ASEAN-USA (2001), Cooperation on trade related
  standards and conformance issues

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• ASEAN Secretariat
• coordinates and implements policies, projects and
  activities of the ASEAN Bodies
• each member country has a national secretariat in
  the foreign ministry

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ACCSQ Product Working Groups (PWG)

• Cosmetics PWG (March 1998)
• Pharmaceutical PWG (March 1999)
• Electrotechnical PWG (December 2000)
• Legal Metrology WG (2001)
• Joint working group on prepared food stuff (being
  develop)

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• Bureau of Product Standards
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• E-mail bps_at_dti.gov.ph