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Delivering Results in Standards and Conformance in ASEAN: the Critical Roles of Institutional Strengthening and the Private Sector

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  • Simon Pettman

    (European Advisory Services (EAS), Asia Office, Singapore)

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Addressing technical barriers to trade is a key priority of ASEAN as part of trade facilitation in achieving an integrated economy under the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015 and in building an effective and competitive Economic Community beyond 2015. Standards and Conformance assessment measures, while seeking to ensure quality and safety of products for consumers, should not become barriers to trade across the region as ASEAN liberalises its trading regime. A delicate balance needs to be achieved between the two to build a thriving economic region. ASEAN has been working towards achieving standards harmonisation in its priority sectors of integration and bringing about regulatory convergence, taking into account the diversities in its ten member states. More, however, needs to be done and as this Policy Brief shows, the roles of institutional strengthening and the private sector are critical in this task.ASEAN members to quicken the development of a technologically more egalitarian region.

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  • Simon Pettman, 2014. "Delivering Results in Standards and Conformance in ASEAN: the Critical Roles of Institutional Strengthening and the Private Sector," Working Papers PB-2014-07, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
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    1. Rully PRASSETYA & Ponciano INTAL Jr, 2015. "AEC Blueprint Implementation Performance and Challenges: Standards and Conformance," Working Papers DP-2015-42, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).

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