UNIDO – SECO Event | 20 June 2018: Good Governance In Developing Modern Quality Infrastructure Systems

To integrate successfully in the global trading system, countries need to comply with international quality requirements for goods and services. Quality Infrastructure (QI) helps domestic and global producers and consumers fulfil their mutual quality goals. It also stimulates industrial development, trade competitiveness, innovation and efficient use of resources, while ensuring protection of the environment.

In the framework of UNIDO’s trade capacity-building activities, a side event will be held on setting the good governance foundations for a modern quality infrastructure system for an effective integration to the global trading system.

The event is being organized in cooperation with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economics Affairs (SECO). It will take place at the WTO on the margins of the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee meeting.

Date: 20 June 2018
Time: 13:15 – 14:30
Venue: WTO

Panelists include representatives from International Network for Quality Infrastructure, in particular the quality infrastructure governance organizations for accreditation (ILAC, IAF) and standardization (ISO), as well as representatives from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), WTO Secretariat, and UNIDO.

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The United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS) is a joint initiative of 5 UN Agencies (FAO, ITC, UNCTAD, UN Environment and UNIDO) that seeks to address these challenges. It is a demand-driven forum for intergovernmental actors to communicate among each other and engage with key target groups (producers, traders, consumers, standard-setters, certification-bodies, trade diplomats, relevant NGOs and researchers) to address their information needs and influence concerned stakeholders. It aims to provide impartial information, analysis, and discussions on VSS and their potential contribution to facilitate market access, strengthen public goods and achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Most importantly, the UNFSS focuses on potential trade or development obstacles VSS may create, with particular emphasis on their impact on SMEs and less developed countries.

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