SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY: Focused Enquiry Point Capacity Building
Under the Standards Alliance program, work has been carried out by Ms. Diane Thompson, Principal Standards Advisor, to develop action plans to improve the effectiveness
of the Enquiry Points and Notification Authorities required under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement).
The following East African Community (EAC) countries are participating in the Standards Alliance program: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.
During March, 2016 Ms. Thompson traveled to Malawi to implement the action plan, meeting with staff of the Malawi Bureau of Standards and the Ministry of Industry and Trade to
discuss the three tasks of the action plan for Malawi: improving the WTO TBT Enquiry Point and Notification Authority, communication with stakeholders, and promotion.
On-site training requested by the participants focused on the following topics: TBT notifications, online resources, database of enquiries, inventory, procedures,
internal awareness, electronic notification systems, capacity building, and the WTO TBT Committee.
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