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African Organisation For Standardisation

10th Min WTO - ARSO UNECE

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ARSO is intergovernmental

organization established in

1977 by OAU (currently

AU) and UNECA


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ARSO accredited (diplomatic status) by the Government of

the Republic of Kenya

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ARSO MISSION

Facilitate intra-

African and

global trade

through

harmonized

standards and

conformity system

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1. Harmonize national and regional standards

and issue necessary recommendations to

Member States in this regard;

2. Initiate and coordinate the development of

African Standards with references to products

which are of particular interest to Africa;

3. Promote and coordinate standardisation

and conformity assessment systems in

Africa;

4. Encourage and facilitate adoption of

international standards by Member States;

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5. Encourage and facilitate the development by AU Member States of technical regulations based on African and International Standards;

6. Support the establishment of effective national standards bodies in Member States;

7. Coordinate the views of its members at international level; and

8. Create appropriate bodies in addition to the organs of ARSO for the purposes of fulfilling its objectives.

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General

Assembly

Council

Central

secretariat

Technical

Directorate

Technical

Harmonisation

Committee

Conformity

assessment

committee

Consumer

committee

Documentation

and information

management

Documentation

and information

network

Publishing house

Finance&

Administration

Technical

management

committee

Oversight

committee

ARSO President

ARSO Secretary General


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1. Establish a standards harmonization system that

supports a sound regulatory framework

2. Disseminate harmonized standards and guidelines to

support intra, inter African and international trade and

industrialization

3. Strengthening ARSO work-management capabilities for the

sustainability of the Organisation

4. Promoting maximum and effective participation of

Members and other stakeholders

ARSO Strategic objectives


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industrialization






The Abuja Treaty (Chapter XI, Article 67) lays out a common Policy on Standardization and Measurement Systems.

• Adopt a common policy on standardisation and

quality assurance of goods and services among member states

• Undertake such other related activities in standardisation

and measurement systems that are likely to promote trade, economic development and integration within the Community; and strengthen

African national and continental organisations operating in this field.

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Premised on Article 49 of the AEC Treaty:

1) ARSO/THC 01, Basic and General Standards

2) ARSO/THC 02, Agriculture and Food Products

3) ARSO/THC 03, Building and Civil Engineering

4) ARSO/THC 04, Mechanical Engineering & Metallurgy

5) ARSO/THC 05, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

6) ARSO/THC 06, Electro-technology

7) ARSO/THC 07, Textiles and Leather

8) ARSO/THC 08, Transport and Communication

9) ARSO/THC 09, Environmental Management

10) ARSO/THC 10, Energy and Natural Resources

11) ARSO/THC 11, Quality Management

12) ARSO/THC 12, Services

13) ARSO/THC 13, African Traditional Medicine



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Common UP-IS

Unique products


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THC 02 Agriculture and Food product

2013cassave bread-BoI


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THC 03 on Building and Civil

Engineering 23rd – 24th April

2015, Nairobi Kenya

THC 13 on ATM: 2nd – 5th Dec 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya and 2nd – 6th March 2015,Mauritius.


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Common UP-IS

International and regional


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Abuja Treaty’s 1991 and 1994: establishing African Economic Community (AEC): FTAs, continental customs union, common market, monetary and economic union.

AU recognises 8 RECs as 'pillars' of the African Economic Community (AEC): ◦ COMESA has launched its Customs Union (CU) on June 2009 and its

FTA in 2000.

◦ SADC launched its FTA in 2008 and is in the process of preparing to launch its CU which was supposed to have been launched in 2010.

◦ EAC launched its Common Market in 2010.

◦ ECOWAS has made progress in building its FTA and planning to launch its Customs Union.

◦ ECCAS have launched its FTA in 2004

◦ UMA, CENSAD and IGAD are moving slowly and still in the stage of cooperation amongst their Member States.


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•Algeria,

AMU

•Benin,

•Togo,

•Côte D’lvoire

•Niger,

•Burkina Faso

•Guinea-Bissau •Mali

•Senegal

•Ghana,

•Nigeria •Gambia

•Guinea

•Liberia,

•Sierra leone

ECOWAS

•Chad

•Cameron,

•Central African Rep,

•Gabon,

•Equat. Guinea,

•Rep. Congo

•São Tomé & Principe

•Burundi

•Rwanda

•Djibouti,

•Ethiopia,

•Eritrea,

•Sudan

•Kenya,

•Burundi

•Rwanda

•Uganda, i

•Somalia

•Tanzania

•DR Congo •Angola

•Egypt

Nile River Basin

IGA

D

•Mauritius,

•Seychelles •Comoros,

•Madagascar

•Reunion

IOC

•Malawi,

•Zambia,

•Zimbabwe

•Mozambique

•South Africa,

•Botswana,

•Lesotho Namibia,

•Swaziland

ECCAS CEMAC

COMESA SADC

SACU

EAC

CILSS

WAEMU

Mano River Union

Consell

De L ‘Entente

Abbreviations

AMU: Arab Maghreb Union,

CBI: Cross Border Initiative,

CEMAC: Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa,

CILSS: Permanent Interstate Committee on Drought Control in the Sahel,

COMESA: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa,

CEN-SAD: Community of Sahel Saharan States,

EAC: East African Cooperation,

ECCAS: Economic Community for Central African States

ECOWAS: Economic Community of Western African States,

IGAD: Inter-Governmental Authority for Government,

IOC: Indian Ocean Commission,

SACU: Southern Africa Customs Union,

SADC: Southern African Development

Community,

WAEMU: West African Economic and

Monetary Union

•Libya

•Morocco,

•Tunisia

•Sudan,

•Chad,

•Eritrea,

•Central African Rep,

•Djibouti,

•Somalia

•Cape Verde,

CEN-SAD

Overlapping of membership in Africa

Standards - RECs


Launch the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free

Trade Area (TFTA) on 10 June, 2015 in Sharm El

Sheikh, Egypt at the Third Tripartite Summit,

CFTA negotiation launched by the 25th Summit

of the AU in June 2015, South Africa with

mandate to fast tracking the establishment of

an African CFTA by 2017,


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Standards in CFTA- ARSO


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TFTA -ECOWAS building CFTA


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Standards in TFTA-TBT annex ARSO


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ARSO

Standards –ARSO and RECs MoUs


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THC RH/IS UP 2016 2017

1 Basic and General Standards 134 0 0 0

2 Agriculture and Food Products 196 45 29 23

3 Building and Civil Engineering 135 14 21 10

4 Mechanical Engineering and Metallurgy

104 10 0 0

5 Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

52 8 6 17

6 Electrotechnology 63 0 0 0

7 Leather and Textile Products 90 10 0 8

8 Transport and Communications 24 0 0 0

9 Environmental Management 15 0 0 48

10 Energy and Natural Resources 3 0 0 0

11 Quality Management Systems 6 0 0 0

12 Services 0 0 0 96

13 African Traditional Medicine 2 0 11 14

Total 824 87 67 216


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Harmonization of

conformity Assessment

Procedures in Africa

– 1-1-1 principle

SO2 African standards implemented

Accepted

everywhere

1

Test

1

CONFORMITY

ASSESSMENT

1

Standard


Conformity

assessment

Conformity assessment

Conformity with

requirements defined

by standards

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Accreditation

Recognition of technical

competence

Standards

Definition of properties,

dimensions, tolerances,

etc.

Metrology

Guarantee of exact and

reliable measurements

SO2 QI at national and regional


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To be developed through PAQI including general

technical regulations framework and criteria

for classification and identification of TBTs for

African countries


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Conformity

assessment Conformity assessment

Conformity with

requirements defined

by standards

.

Standards

Definition of properties,

dimensions, tolerances,

etc.

SO2 Standards need conformity system


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ARSO- CACO website developed www.arso-caco.org

Dual Certification Scheme (Africa Mark) – Agriculture and ATM

Database on Conformity Assessment Capabilities of member States

Outreach material


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Training on 10-12 February 2015, Nairobi, Kenya

• www.arso-disnet.org • Database of Standards • Info on Technical

Regulations, Trade Regimes, African Experts

• ARSO online library and Publishing House

http://www.arso-disnet.org/



www.arso-coco.org

Guide on inclusion of Consumer information in Standards

Data base for ARSO-COCO Stakeholders and Consumers Protection bodies in Africa

Training: Consumer Information


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http://www.arso-coco.org/



African day of Standardisation: 2015Theme “The role of standards in promoting Women Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Agenda 2063“

Continental Essay Competition

Made in Africa expo


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General

Assembly

Council

Central

secretariat

Technical

Directorate

Technical

Harmonisation

Committee

Conformity

assessment

committee

Consumer

committee

Documentation

and information

management

Documentation

and information

network

Publishing house

Finance&

Administration

Technical

management

committee

Oversight

committee

Conformity

assessment

Membership

Grants ◦ AfDB

◦ UNECA

◦ EU

◦ Sida

◦ German government (PTB, GIZ)

◦ World Fish Trade


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Training (ARSO staff and ARSO members (THC experts and standards and conformity officers)

Formal Education Programme (University, high schools, primary)

Affordable training: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia


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AU CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRADE 9TH ORDINARY SESSION 01– 05 DECEMBER 2014, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA On the ARSO Annual Report i. All AU Member States that are currently not Members of

ARSO should endeavour to attain membership by the year 2017;

ii. ARSO and other Pan African Standards organisations to refer to the year 2017 as African year of Quality Infrastructure;

iii. The AUC and ARSO should increase awareness and mobilize all stakeholders on the role of Quality Infrastructure;

iv. The AUC and Quality Infrastructure Institutions should assess the status of Quality Infrastructure in Africa; and develop a Strategic Plan on Quality Infrastructure in Africa.

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SOUTH SUDAN CEO

AUC Trade Industry: Report

PAQI

ACP TBT steering committee

WTO Observer status

SPS continental committee

COMESA Business Council steering committee


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Awareness Creation Workshop for the East African Community Legislative Assembly (EALA) Members

EALA MPs for the Agriculture, Tourism and Natural Resources Committee


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ISO

CEN

World-Fish

AfDB

UNECA

PTB

Sida

WTO

QCI

KATS

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Why talking about standards:


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Standards •voluntary

Technical

regulation •mandatory

Trade •protection

Well developed QI

Reasonably developed QI

Partially developed QI

Limited QI

Non or very limited QI

Conclusion


Asante

Merci beaucoup!

Thank you!

شكرا

Muito obrigado!

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