Survey on Good Regulatory Practices (GRP) for Conformity Assessment in APEC Economies

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For a list of definitions and general terms see ISO/IEC Guide 2-2004, (Standardization and Related Activities, General Vocabulary). 8th Edition.

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* 1. Personal Information

Economy

Your name and title

Your e-mail and telephone number

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* 2. Does your economy have a law, regulations, rules or formal guidance that specifies a general policy (not product specific) for conformity assessment?
If yes, please provide the text and/or a link to it. If the text is too long for the space allowed, please provide a point of contact for follow-up purposes.

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* 3. What are, generally and briefly, your government’s preferred conformity assessment approaches? Stated another way, how would you describe, generally and briefly, your government’s conformity assessment practices?

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* 4. Do your economy’s technical regulations include explicit conformity assessment requirements?

Always

Usually

Occasionally

Never

If yes, please list some examples.

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* 5. Does your economy have laws, regulations, rules or formal guidance that prescribes conformity assessment rules for specific products?
If yes, please provide an illustrative list of the products or sectors.

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* 6. Do these conformity assessment rules cite international conformity assessment standards (such as ISO/IEC 17025, ISO/IEC 17065) or international mutual recognition arrangements (such as PAC, IAF/MLA, APLAC, ILAC/MRA) or other international schemes (such as the IEC CB Scheme)?
If yes, please list them.

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* 7. Please cite any recognition agreements (of conformity assessment results) with other economies or regionally that your government has entered into.

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* 8. Please briefly describe any cooperation or joint work you are participating in with other economies or group of economies.

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* 9. What steps does your government undertake in an effort to implement Good Regulatory Practices when developing conformity assessment requirements?

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* 10. Are any of these requirements in Question # 9 based on voluntary sector agreements and if so are they mandated by law?

Sector Specific

To illustrate conformity assessment practices, we are also focusing the study on electrical installation rules and two product sectors - photovoltaics and medical equipment-pacemakers.

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* 11. Does your economy have mandatory conformity assessment requirements in these rules and also for these two products?
If yes, please provide general information of the requirements and/or a link to the regulation or rule, including a point of contact for follow-up purposes.

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* 12. For these rules/ products, please indicate if (according to 5.1.1 of the TBT Agreement) suppliers of similar products in other economies have access to conformity assessment process in the same manner as suppliers from your economy.

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* 13. In these rules and for these two products please indicate if your economy recognizes Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDoC), only certification by a 3rd party or a combination of the two? Please explain.

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* 1. Personal Information

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* 3. What are, generally and briefly, your government’s preferred conformity assessment approaches? Stated another way, how would you describe, generally and briefly, your government’s conformity assessment practices?

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* 4. Do your economy’s technical regulations include explicit conformity assessment requirements?

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* 5. Does your economy have laws, regulations, rules or formal guidance that prescribes conformity assessment rules for specific products? If yes, please provide an illustrative list of the products or sectors.

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* 7. Please cite any recognition agreements (of conformity assessment results) with other economies or regionally that your government has entered into.

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* 8. Please briefly describe any cooperation or joint work you are participating in with other economies or group of economies.

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* 9. What steps does your government undertake in an effort to implement Good Regulatory Practices when developing conformity assessment requirements?

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* 10. Are any of these requirements in Question # 9 based on voluntary sector agreements and if so are they mandated by law?

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* 11. Does your economy have mandatory conformity assessment requirements in these rules and also for these two products? If yes, please provide general information of the requirements and/or a link to the regulation or rule, including a point of contact for follow-up purposes.

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* 12. For these rules/ products, please indicate if (according to 5.1.1 of the TBT Agreement) suppliers of similar products in other economies have access to conformity assessment process in the same manner as suppliers from your economy.

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* 13. In these rules and for these two products please indicate if your economy recognizes Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDoC), only certification by a 3rd party or a combination of the two? Please explain.

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* 14. Do the products need to have a national certification mark before sale? Please explain.

* 5. Does your economy have laws, regulations, rules or formal guidance that prescribes conformity assessment rules for specific products?
If yes, please provide an illustrative list of the products or sectors.

* 11. Does your economy have mandatory conformity assessment requirements in these rules and also for these two products?
If yes, please provide general information of the requirements and/or a link to the regulation or rule, including a point of contact for follow-up purposes.