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UN ECE / WTO Public Forum The role of International Standards in multilateral trade agreements. R.Pocthier - September 25, 2006. Our area of competency: Earth Moving Machines. Machines for excavating, loading, transporting, spreading and compacting earth and other materials.
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UN ECE / WTO Public ForumThe role of International Standards in multilateral trade agreements R.Pocthier - September 25, 2006
Our area of competency: Earth Moving Machines Machines for excavating, loading, transporting, spreading and compacting earth and other materials. Machines designed according to performance based specifications of ISO standards developed in ISO/TC 127
Why are international standards so important to us? • Give a good foundation for the development of new regulations • Provide performance based specifications to design our machines • widely accepted because developed by the very best international technical experts • Facilitate communication in an international market • … • We are in a low volume and global market that needs global standards and regulations to avoid producing different machine models for Asia, Europe and North America
General Standards Strategy • Develop and maintain a complete set of reasonable ISO standards, and help promote the ISO standards as national standards and regulations for all countries.
Standards in National Regulations • The ISO/TC 127 Standards are used for compliance with regulations in the EU, the USA and in Japan. • The ISO/TC 127 Standards are being promoted as national standards and as the basis for regulations for China, Russia and India. • China is actively adopting the ISO standards and we are trying to work with Russia to encourage the adoption and use of UN/ECE Common Regulatory Objective (CRO) based on ISO standards. Standards meetings are planned with India. • Lets see the Russian case
Russia – New Technical Legislation • Up to now: • no Technical Legislation ; State Standards regulate all Technical Regulation. They are mandatory documents. • In addition to State Standards we have Industry Standards and Regulations. Ministries do supervise the product compliance. • We have to work with 4 Certification Bodies • Ministry of Communication (Gen Sets) • Gosgortehnazor/Rostehnatzor (Safety Ministry – dangerous products) • GostR • Hygienic • Duma approved a new Russian Federal Law N0. 184.03 on Technical Regulation in Y2002 • The RF law states: International Standards.. May be used.. As a basis for the development of a draft TR
New Russian Technical Regulation • We are encouraging Russia to follow the UNECE WP 6 “International Model for Technical Harmonization”. • However, ISO standards cannot be referenced in the new Technical Regulation. • Approved national standards can be used to show compliance with the technical requirements. • We are trying to help Russia adopt the ISO/TC 127 as approved national standards so that they can be used for the technical requirements of the new Technical Regulation.