Use of International Standards Clause Samples

Use of International Standards. 1. Each Party shall, as a basis for their own measures related to international standards, standardization, existing or imminent, or their parts, except where such relevant standards do not constitute an effective or appropriate means for achieving their legitimate objectives; for instance because of fundamental climatic or geographical nature or technological infrastructure, in accordance with this chapter. 2. It shall be presumed that measures relating to the standardization of a party which conforms to an international standard shall be consistent with the provisions of paragraphs 1, 2 and 5 of Article 14-04. 3. In pursuing its legitimate objectives, each Party may adopt or maintain any measure on standardisation applied to achieve a high level of protection to which would have been obtained if the measure based on an international standard due, among other factors, nature of fundamental climatic or geographical, technological infrastructure.

Use of International Standards. In the development or implementation of its measures on standardization, authorization procedures or metrology, each Party shall use international standards where they exist or their completion is imminent, or use the relevant parts of them, except where such international standards would not be an effective or appropriate means for fulfilling the legitimate objectives because of fundamental climatic, geographical, technological or infrastructural factors, or scientifically verified reasons.

Use of International Standards. 1. Each Party shall use for the elaboration, development or application of its standards-related measures, international standards in force or of imminent adoption, except when such international standards do not constitute an effective or adequate means to achieve its legitimate objectives, due to fundamental factors of a climatic, geographical, technological, or infrastructural nature, or for scientifically proven reasons. 2. A standardization measure of a Party that conforms to an international standard shall be presumed to be consistent with paragraphs 3 and 4 of article 15-05. 3. In pursuing its legitimate objectives and because of fundamental climatic, geographical, technological or infrastructural factors, or for scientifically proven reasons, each Party may adopt, apply or maintain any standardization measure that results in a higher level of protection than would have been achieved if the measure were based on an international standard.

Use of International Standards. B1 All technical work in relation to the only gap for conformity – the harmonized system – has already been done and what is only lacking is approval by the AR, which is expected to occur within 1 year.

Use of International Standards. Partially aligned 1. Liberia is a member of a number of trade facilitation-related conventions and organizations, including the WCO, the HS Convention, OIE and IPPC.

Use of International Standards. 1. Each Party shall use relevant international standards, guides and recommendations as provided for in Articles 2.4 and 5.4 of the WIO 7BT Agreement as _ the basis for its technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures. 2. In determining whether an international standard, guide or recommendation within the meaning of Article 2, Article 5 and Annex 3 of the WTO TBT Agreement exists, each Party shall apply the principles set out in the Decisions and Recommendations adopted by the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade (hereinafter WTO TBT Committee) since 1 January 1995, G/TBT/1/Rev.9, 08 September 2008 issued by the WTO TBT Committee. 3. Each Party shall encourage its national standardizing bodies to cooperate with the relevant national standardizing bodies of the other Party in international standardization activities. Such cooperation may be effected through the activities of the Parties in regional and international standardizing bodies of which the Parties are members.

Use of International Standards. This article intends to ensure that Members base their formal procedures on best practices and international standards (for example, conventions of the World Customs Organization, the International Maritime Organization or the International Civil Aviation Organization, etc.). Current Situation The country has a specific Department for International Relations in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, which watches over the international trade commitments. The country uses the international quality standards (ISO, etc.). It is considered compliant with all instruments, though there is some delay in the approval of the Harmonized System by the Assembly of the Republic. Issues of Interpretation Members are ‘encouraged’ to use relevant international standards, or part of them... The article does not have a strong mandatory character, leaving it to the Member to decide to what extent the international standards are appropriate in its case. However, the Guide refers to the alignment with the Revised Kyoto Convention as starting point. As it is not mandatory, there is space for the country to interpret it in a more or less strict manner. Barriers/Gaps Approval on the part of the parliament (AR in Portuguese) of the Harmonized System (it has already been submitted to the AR.) Proposal of Category and Deadline (years) “B 1”, because all technical work in relation to the only gap for compliance – the harmonized system – has already been done and what is only lacking is approval by the AR, which is expected to occur within 1 year.

Use of International Standards.  Members are encouraged to  Use relevant international standards as a basis of their importation, exportation or transit formalities and procedures  Take part in the preparation and periodic review of relevant international standards  The Committee shall develop procedures for sharing of relevant information and best practices in this matter

Use of International Standards. 1. Each Party shall use, as a basis for the development, elaboration or application of its standards, existing or imminently adopted international standards, except where such international standards are not an effective or appropriate means of achieving its legitimate objectives, due to fundamental factors of a climatic, geographical, technological or infrastructural nature, among others. 2. A Party's standardization measure that conforms to an international standard shall be presumed to be consistent with paragraphs 3 and 4 of article 13-05. 3. In pursuing its legitimate objectives, each Party may adopt, maintain or apply any standards-related measure that results in a higher level of protection than would have been achieved if the measure were based on an international standard due to, inter alia, fundamental climatic, geographical, technological or infrastructural factors.