Short instruction
The World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (WTO/TBT) was established to ensure that technical regulations, standards and specifications required to assess conformity with them, do not create unnecessary obstacles to international trade (ISO/UNIDO, 2010). Successive reviews of the WTO/TBT Agreement have noted the usefulness of ISO/IEC conformity assessment standards and guides in harmonizing conformity assessment activities and as benchmarks for the technical competence of conformity assessment bodies so that adequate credibility and confidence in the obtained results may be achieved (ISO/UNIDO, 2010). The use of ISO/IEC conformity assessment standards helps to overcome trade barriers and promotes the international recognition of conformity assessment activities, market surveillance, and other related activities, as well as enables the worldwide acceptance of the results of these activities (ISO/UNIDO, 2010).
The ILOs examples
K6.1., K6.3., K7.1., K7.2., K7.3., S6.2., S6.6., S7.1., S7.2., S7.10.
Recommended Teaching Case studies/Serious games/Оther
Recommended duration of tutorials: from 30 minutes to 90 minutes
Recommended sources
If you are new to the topic, the basics can be found at:
- https://www.hsbooster.eu/training-academy/role-standardisation-quality-infrastructure
Other sources relevant to the topic:
- Howarth, P., Redgrave, F. (2008). Metrology – In Short (EURAMET, 3rd ed.), Accessed on October 27, 2022. Retrieved from: https://www.euramet.org/publications-media-centre/documents/metrology-in-short/tiL=0.
- ISO/UNIDO. (2010). Building trust. The Conformity Assessment Toolbox. Accessed on October 27, 2022. Retrieved from: https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/archive/pdf/en/casco_building-trust.pdf.
- Kellerman, M. (2019). Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets (A Reform Toolkit). Accessed on October 27, 2022. Retrieved from: https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/249621553265195570-0090022019/original/FullQIToolkitReport.pdf.