Standards and technical regulations eliminate the technical barriers to trade
WTO deals with the global rules applied in the international commerce
WTO is based on two Agreements TBT and SPS
The agreements are applied to all the members
Notifications of other member states (standards)
WTO (OMC) Enquiry
Point in Romania
ASRO hold OMC Enquiry Point - Standardization in Romania
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| Adress:
| ROMANIAN STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
Str. Mendeleev, nr. 21-25, sector 1, Bucuresti
INFORMATION CENTRE
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| TELEPHON
| +40 21 316 99 74
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| TEL/FAX
| +40 21 316 08 70
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| e-mail
| diana.dorobantu@asro.ro
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| Contact person
| Diana Dorobantu |
- TBT principles
- Avoiding creation of useless barriers to international trade
- Indiscriminately commerce
- Harmonization
- Equivalence of the technical regulations
- Mutual recognition of the procedures for conformity assessment
- Transparence
- TBT – Aim
- Requirements for products and procedures developed by governmental and nongovernmental bodies
- Technical standards – voluntary
- Technical regulations – mandatory
- Conformity assessment procedures – mandatory, voluntary
- TBT – Transparence
- TBT recommends the use of international standards
- TBT sets close connections between ISO and WTO
- TBT establishes creation of Enquiry Points
- “Code of good practice for standards development, adoption and application”
- WTO – Code of Good Practice
- Sets procedures for preparation, adoption and application of standards
- Sets procedures for notification of acceptance of WTO Code of Good Practice
- Sets procedures for notification of national standardization programs
- TBT – Enquiry Points
- Each WTO member has to set up a national Enquiry Point
- Each national Enquiry Point supplies information concerning:
- -Technical regulations
- Standards
- Certification of systems
- The national Enquiry points get information from the Enquiry Points of other members
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WTO information