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violation  of  the  provisions  of  the  TBT  Agreement  incorporated
 under paragraph 1.    3.     Further  to  paragraph  2,  each  Party  shall  ensure  that  its
                              standardising body or bodies ensure that the modifications of the
                              contents  and  structure  of  international  standards  are  not
 Article   6.5:   International   Standards,   Guides,   and   prepared, adopted, or applied with a view to, or with the effect of,
 Recommendations              creating unnecessary obstacles to international trade.

 1.   The  Parties  recognise  the  important  role  that  international   4.   Each  Party  shall  encourage  cooperation  between  the  relevant
 standards,  guides,  and  recommendations  can  play  in  the   standardising body or bodies in its territory and the standardising
 harmonisation  of  technical  regulations,  conformity  assessment   body or bodies of other Parties, in areas such as:
 procedures, and national standards, and in reducing unnecessary
 barriers to trade.           (a)    exchange of information on standards;

 2.   In  determining  whether  an  international  standard,  guide,  or   (b)   exchange  of  information  relating  to  standard  setting
 recommendation  within  the  meaning  of  Articles  2  and  5  and   procedures; and
 Annex  3  of  the  TBT  Agreement  exists,  each  Party  takes  into
 account the principles set out in the Decision of the Committee on   (c)   international  standardising  activities  in  areas  of  mutual
 Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides   interest.
 and Recommendations with relation to Articles 2, 5 and Annex 3
 of the Agreement (G/TBT/9, 13 November 2000, Annex 4), and
 subsequent  relevant  decisions  and  recommendations  in  this   Article 6.7: Technical Regulations
 regard, adopted by the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to
 Trade (hereinafter referred to as “WTO TBT Committee” in this   1.   Each  Party  shall  use  relevant  international  standards  or  the
 Chapter).                    relevant parts of them, to the extent provided in paragraph 4 of
                              Article  2  of  the  TBT  Agreement,  as  a  basis  for  its  technical
 3.   The Parties shall, where appropriate, strengthen coordination and   regulations.    Where  a  Party  does  not  use  such  international
 communication with each other in the context of discussions on   standards,  or  their  relevant  parts,  as  a  basis  for  its  technical
 international standards and related issues in other international   regulations,  it  shall,  on  request  of  another  Party,  explain  the
 fora, such as the WTO TBT Committee.   reasons therefor.

                       2.     In implementing paragraph 2 of Article 2 of the TBT Agreement,
 Article 6.6: Standards       each Party shall consider available alternatives in order to ensure
                              that  the  proposed  technical  regulations  to  be  adopted  are  not
 1.   With  respect  to  the  preparation,  adoption,  and  application  of   more  trade-restrictive  than  necessary  to  fulfil  a  legitimate
 standards, each Party shall ensure that its standardising body or   objective.
 bodies that prepare, adopt, and apply national standards accept
 and comply with Annex 3 of the TBT Agreement.   3.   Each  Party  shall  give  positive  consideration  to  accepting  as
                              equivalent, technical regulations of another Party, even if those
 2.   Where modifications to the contents or structure of the relevant   regulations differ from its own, provided it is satisfied that those
 international standards were necessary in developing a Party’s   regulations adequately fulfil the objectives of its own regulations.
 national standards, that Party shall, on request of another Party,
 encourage its standardising body or bodies to provide what the   4.   Where a Party does not accept a technical regulation of another
 differences in the contents and structure are, and the reason for   Party as equivalent to its own, it shall, on request of the other
 those differences.  Any fees charged for this service shall, apart   Party, explain the reasons for its decision.
 from  the  real  cost  of  delivery,  be  the  same  for  foreign  and
 domestic persons.




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