11.6 Members who are members or participants in international or regional compliance assessment systems advise other members, particularly members of the developing country, on their request, and provide technical assistance on agreed terms for the establishment of institutions and the legal framework for fulfilling obligations arising from membership or participation in these systems. However, Article 2.5 provides that technical standards, when they serve one of the legitimate objectives of Article 2.2 and believe, in accordance with relevant international standards, that they are not contrary to Article 2.2. [2] (PDF) 10.1.1 any technical regulations adopted or proposed on their territory by central or local authorities, non-governmental bodies legally empowered to enforce technical regulations or regional standards bodies of which members or participants are members; 2.3 Technical rules are not maintained if the circumstances or objectives leading to their adoption are no longer in place or when the changed circumstances or objectives may be treated in a less restless manner. 2.10.1 immediately inform the other members, through the secretariat, of the specific technical regulations and the products covered, briefly specifying the purpose and justification of the technical regulation, including the nature of the urgent problems; 2.8 If necessary, members adopt technical rules based on product performance requirements and not on design or descriptive characteristics. Any procedure used directly or indirectly to determine whether the relevant requirements are being met in technical requirements or standards. 12.3 In developing and implementing technical rules, standards and compliance assessment procedures, members take into account the specific development, financing and trade needs of developing countries to ensure that these technical rules, standards and compliance assessment procedures do not create unnecessary barriers to exporting from developing countries. keen to ensure that technical rules and standards, including packaging, labelling and labelling requirements, and procedures for assessing compliance with technical rules and standards do not create unnecessary barriers to international trade; The following procedures apply to technical expert groups set up in accordance with Article 14. 2.7 Members plan to take adoption into consideration as equivalent technical provisions of other members, even if these regulations deviate from their own, if they are satisfied that these regulations are consistent with the objectives of their own regulations. 5.1.2 Compliance assessment procedures are not developed, adopted or applied to create unnecessary barriers to international trade or create unnecessary barriers to international trade. This means, among other things, that compliance assessment procedures should not be stricter or stricter than required to give the importing member reasonable confidence that the products comply with the applicable technical rules or standards, given the risks of non-compliance.
A standard is a document approved by an accredited body that sets out guidelines or characteristics that are not mandatory. It may contain terminology, symbols, packaging or labelling requirements and may apply to a product, process or manufacturing process. Standards differ from technical regulations in that they are not binding. Although they are voluntary, producers often have no choice but to respect them for commercial practice. [4] 2.10.2, upon request, to make copies of the technical regulations available to other members; The TBT agreement provides that the governments of WTO member states ensure that products imported from another WTO country are treated at the national level and that the nation`s most favoured treatment (MFN) is treated at the national level.
