Mutual Recognition of Conformity Assessment. Coverage 1 This Article shall apply to products and/or assessments of manufacturers of products, and their mandatory requirements as may be specified in the Product Chapters. General Obligations 2 Each Party recognises that the conformity assessment bodies designated by the other Party in accordance with this Article are competent to undertake the conformity assessment activities necessary to demonstrate compliance with its mandatory requirements. 3 New Zealand shall accept the results of conformity assessment activities to demonstrate conformity of products and/or manufacturers with its mandatory requirements when the conformity assessment activities are undertaken by conformity assessment bodies designated by Singapore's designating authorities in accordance with this Article. 4 Singapore shall accept the results of conformity assessment activities to demonstrate conformity of products and/or manufacturers with its mandatory requirements when the conformity assessment activities are undertaken by conformity assessment bodies designated by New Zealand's designating authorities in accordance with this Article. 5 This Article shall not require mutual acceptance of the mandatory requirements of each Party, or mutual recognition of the equivalence of such mandatory requirements. The Parties shall, however, give consideration to increasing the degree of harmonisation or equivalence of their mandatory requirements, where appropriate and where consistent with good regulatory practice. Where both Parties agree that the mandatory requirements are harmonised or established as equivalent, the results of conformity assessment that demonstrate compliance with the exporting Party's mandatory requirements shall be accepted as demonstrating compliance with the importing Party's mandatory requirements without the need for further conformity assessment by the importing Party to demonstrate compliance with its own mandatory requirements. 6 Each Party shall, consistent with the relevant provisions of the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade and the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, use international standards, or the relevant parts of international standards, as a basis for its mandatory requirements where relevant international standards exist or their completion is imminent, except when such international standards or their relevant parts are ineffective or inappropriate. Designating Authorities 7 The Parties shall ensure that...
Mutual Recognition of Conformity Assessment. Without prejudice to Article 7, Switzerland, on the one hand, and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, on the other, grant mutual acceptance of reports, certificates, authorisations, conformity marks and manufacturer's declarations of conformity in accordance with Annex I.
Mutual Recognition of Conformity Assessment. Coverage
Mutual Recognition of Conformity Assessment. 1 This Article shall apply to products and/or assessments of manufacturers of products, and their mandatory requirements as may be specified in the Product Chapters.
Mutual Recognition of Conformity Assessment. Scope 1. This Article shall apply to: (a) mandatory requirements and/or assessments of manufacturers or manufacturing processes, maintained by the Parties to fulfill their legitimate objectives and appropriate level of protection; and (b) the conformity assessment bodies and conformity assessment procedures for products as may be specified in the Sectoral Annexes. 2. For the purposes of this Article, a Sectoral Annex shall include inter alia: (a) provisions on scope and coverage;
