Transcript Regional Workshop on SPS Capacity Building in Africa to Mitigate the Harmful Effects of Pesticide Residue in Cocoa and to Maintain Market.

Regional Workshop on SPS Capacity Building in Africa
to Mitigate the Harmful Effects of Pesticide Residue in
Cocoa and to Maintain Market Access
7-10 June 2011; Yaoundé ; Cameroon
Building Quality Infrastructure
for SPS ComplianceUNIDO Approach and Experience
Dr. Lalith Goonatilake
Director
Trade Capacity Building Branch
[email protected]
Presentation Overview
 Global Trade Opportunities & Challenges
 Quality Infrastructure for Conformance
 Cocoa Market Access Requirements
 UNIDO SPS projects in Africa
 UNIDO – Global Forum & Partnerships
 Linkage of UNIDO activities to ICCO work
 Conclusions
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.2
UNIDO: UN Specialized Agency with three thematic areas:
Long-term
Goal
Thematic
Priorities
Programme
Components
To contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular to
poverty eradication through sustainable industrial development.
Poverty reduction through
productive activities
Trade
capacity-building
Energy
and environment
Industrial Policy,
Business Environment and
Institutional Support
Enterprise Upgrading for
Trade Enhancement
Renewable Energy
Rural and Women’s
Entrepreneurship Development
Competitiveness Analysis and
Trade-related Policies
SME Cluster Development
Innovation Systems, Technology
Management and Foresight
Agro-processing and
Value Chain Development
Rural Energy for Productive Use
Sustainable Production in
Poor Communities
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
Modernization of Exportoriented Agro-industries
SME Export Consortia
Climate Change and
Industrial Energy Efficiency
Cleaner and
Sustainable Production
Water Management
Technology Diffusion
Corporate Social Responsibility
for Market Integration
Montreal Protocol
Promotion of Domestic
Investment, FDI and Alliances
Standards, Metrology,
Testing and Conformity
Stockholm Convention
No.3
World’s Merchandise Exports
Values of Merchandise Exports from 1980 till 2009 (in millions of USD)
18,000,000.00
World
16,000,000.00
Developing economies
14,000,000.00
Developed economies
12,000,000.00
10,000,000.00
Least developed countries
8,000,000.00
6,000,000.00
High-income developing
countries
4,000,000.00
Middle-income developing
countries
2,000,000.00
Low-income developing
countries
1980
1990
2000
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Source: UNCTADSTAT
Over 80% of merchandise exports- Industrial Goods
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.4
Global Value Chains: Defining Market Access
Consumer
Lead firm
Supplier
Organization
Customer
Auditing the Value Chain – Compliance to Standards

Product/Process standards (ISO/IEC)
 Safety Standards (OSHAS)
 Quality Standards (ISO 9001)
 Testing (ISO/IEC 17025)
 Environment Standards (ISO 14001)
 Calibration
 Food Safety Standards (ISO 22000)
 Traceability (Farm-to-Fork)
 Labour & Social Standards (SA 8000)
 Private Standards (GlobalGAP)
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.6
Developing Country Agro-Food Exports:
Achieving and Proving Compliance
Regulatory Environment for Compliance
WTO TBT/SPS Agreements (Jan 1995)
TBT – Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
SPS – Agreement on Application of Sanitary & Phytosanitary Measures
WTO TBT & SPS agreements compliance/Conditions to export agro-food:
–
–
–
–
Products sourced from areas free of pests & diseases
Fruits/vegetables - minimum pesticide residue standard
Meats/fish meet minimum antibiotic residue requirement
Standards of hygiene applied in manufacturing (HACCP/ISO 22000)
Key Challenges:
 Developing countries lack capacity to implement agreements
 Conformity assessment technology and standards evolve
 More technical assistance is needed
Developing Conformity Infrastructure (TESTING, CERTIFICATION) – the KEY
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No.7
“Fair Trade for All”:
Priority Areas to meet Product Standards Requirements
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No.8
Legal
International
Framework Governance
Metrology
Accreditation
Standards
Metrology Institute
Accreditation Board
Standards Body
Processes
Products
Competent
Authorities
Inspection
Bodies
Etc.
Testing
Services
Pesticide
Residues
Microbiological
Chemical
Etc.
Certification
Inspection
Testing
Calibration
Services
Mass
Temperature
Volume
Calibration
Services
Public and/or Private
Institutions
Public
Quality Assurance Infrastructure
Value Chain: Producers / Exporters / Consumers
Source: UNIDO
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.9
Conformity Assessment
International Arrangements/Agreements
Only 10 years old !!!
BIPM CIPM – MRA signed 1999,
transition phase completed 2003
ILAC MRA
IAF MLA
since 2001
since 2000
ISO 9001
since 1999
ISO 14001
since 2000
ISO 22000
since 2005
NO CAPACITY IN AFRICA FOR MRAs
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.10
TBT/SPS capacity-building demands linkages to International
Standards & Conformity Organizations
ISO & UNIDO
reinforce
partnership
for sustainable
development
Kandeh K. Yumkella , Director-General, UNIDO
Rob Steele, Secretary-General of ISO
Andrew J. Wallard, Director BIPM,
Kandeh K. Yumkella, DG, UNIDO
Alan Johnston, President, CIML
MoU signed in Vienna, Austria on 03 December 2008
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
MoU signed
on 23 June 2009
in Vienna
MOU signed at the Joint ILAC/IAF
General Assembly in Cape Town on
10 October 2004
No.11
No.11
UNIDO – WTO Cooperation further strengthened:
Framework Agreement on STDF
Adding Metrology, Testing, Certification, Accreditation
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.12
Requirements along the cocoa value chain
UTZ Certified
ISO 9001
Codex standards:
86, 87, 105, 141, 142, 147
Fair Trade
ISO 22000
Organic
ISO 14001
- HACCP
- Packing
- Labelling
- Vegetable fat
Traceability (Farm to Fork)
- Pesticides
- PAH
- Mycotoxins
- Heavy Metals
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
- Humidity
- Fermentation
- Odour
- Size
- Defaults
- Packing
- Microbiology
No.13
UNIDO/DG Sanco – Strategic Partnership
High-level dialogue between UNIDO and EC DG SANCO since 2008
1. Improving TA Programme Design:
• Systematic exploitation of FVO reports
• RASFF data analysis
2. Food Safety Alert - Rapid Response Facility (FSA-RRF)
• Conceptualization of Facility
• Pilot Countries’ Support (€ 400,000)
3. Training, Guides, Advocacy
• Systematic BTSF participation, further development
• Competent Authority development
Total Project Budget: € 800,000
Pilot application: Norway/Finland funding: € 400,000
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.16
Better Training For Safer Food (BTSF) Initiative
UNIDO Participation:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2009
Accra, Ghana, 2009
Dakar, Senegal, 2010
Bamako, Mali, 2010
Cape town, South Africa, 2010
Brussels, Belgium, 2010
•Presenting UNIDO approach
•Sharing UNIDO TBT/SPS project experiences in Africa
•Contributing to working group- Defining Action plans
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.17
US- Food Safety Modernization Act`2011
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.18
US- Food Safety Modernization Act - 2011
Major elements:
– Preventive controls:
Mandate to require comprehensive, prevention-based controls across
the food supply
– Inspection and Compliance:
Inspection as important means of holding industry accountable for its
responsibility to produce safe food; Application of resources in a riskbased manner with innovative approaches (600 inspections of foreign
facilities in first year)
– Imported Food Safety:
Importers to verify that foreign suppliers have adequate preventive
controls in place to ensure safety; FDA to accredit qualified third party
auditors to certify that foreign food facilities are complying with U.S.
food safety standards
– Response:
Mandatory recall authority for all food products for FDA
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.19
MARKET COMPLIANCE – Traceability
(farm-to-fork)
Traceability EU Directive EC 178/2002:
All edible products, despite of their origin, will have to be accompanied by detailed
information on source, production system and processing procedures so as to make
consumers, sanitary and inspection institutions able to follow back and forward the
distribution stream of the product.
ISO 22005 standard on traceability (UNIDO participated in the TC)
UNIDO - Egypt 1st large scale project
(DEBT SWAP, €6.4 million both TC and Financial Assistance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y8ESoDwE5U
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No.20
EU has released new environmental regulations
2002
2005
ELV
WEEE
Vehicles
• Responsibi
-lity for
waste
mgmt
• Setting
ratio of
reuse/recyc
le/recover
of product
• Ban of the
use of
hazardous
substances
Electrical &
Electronic
2006
RoHS
Electrical &
Electronic
• Responsibility • Ban of the
for waste
use of
management
hazardous
substances
• Setting the
ratio of
reuse/recycle/
recovery of
product
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2007
EuP
REACH
All Products
All Products
• Life cycle
assessment
for environmental
burden
• Registration
• Design for
environment
• Evaluation
• Authorization
• Restriction of
the use of
chemicals
No.21
Global Food Safety Initiative
GFSI Mission & Objectives
•
GFSI launched at the CIES Annual Congress in 2000, following a directive from the food business CEOs.
“Continuous improvement ...Confidence in the delivery of
safe food to consumers”
 Convergence between food safety standards
 Improve cost efficiency throughout the food supply chain
 Provide a unique international stakeholder platform
“Once Certified, accepted everywhere”
Convergence of
Standards means
CONFIDENCE
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GFSI Benchmarked
Food Safety Standards?
’Once certified, accepted everywhere’
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MARKET COMPLIANCE
Laboratory Accreditation – Ensuring Credibility of Testing
“Tested Once, Accepted Everywhere”
• ISO/IEC 17025 Standard
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Physical facilities
Equipment
Human resources
Calibration
Test methods and test validation
Quality system
Independent accreditation
Recognition
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No.25
Mutual Recognition of Certificates/Conformity
Country
MULTILATERAL
AGREEMENT
ILAC
1
Accreditation Body A1
C1
C2
Accreditation
Bodies
Laboratories
Country 2
Accreditation Body A2
C3 C4 C5 C6
International Laboratory Accreditation Co-operation
Multilateral Agreement will offer recognition
E7
among its members
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No.26
MARKET COMPLIANCE – Standards, Metrology, Testing, Conformity (2)
Metrology (science of measurement)
A sound measurement system is fundamental in fields of science, production of goods
and services, health, commerce, communications,…It creates the framework in which
suppliers of products and services can demonstrate compliance with specifications
within an internationally standardized system.
Metrology - a requirement for:
Scientific research:
Accurate calibration of scientific instruments
Food safety:
Calibrated thermometers, balances, etc.
Laboratory accreditation:
Calibration status of test equipment a requirement under ISO 17025
ISO 9001, ISO 14001 certification:
Calibration status of equipment a clause under ISO 9001, ISO 14001
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No.27
Cross Frontier Accreditations completed via UNIDO Projects
8 laboratories accredited in SRI LANKA through SWEDAC (Sweden)
Microbiology (2); Chemical Testing (2); Garment/Textile (1);
Metrology (1); Rubber testing (1); Food Testing (1)
1 Metrology laboratory accredited in TANZANIA through SANAS
1 Chemical/ Microbiology lab GHANA through SANAS
19 public sector laboratories accredited in PAKISTAN through NA
Microbiology (6); Chemical Testing (6); Leather/Textile (5); Metrology (1); Electrical (1)
5 laboratories accredited in VIETNAM through NA (Norway)
Microbiology (2); Chemical Testing (1); Metrology (2);
5 laboratories accredited in LIBYA through DAP (Germany)
Building Material testing Laboratory (1); Metallurgy and Surface Protection Laboratory (1);
Food Testing Laboratory (1); Chemical Testing Laboratory (1); Textile Testing Laboratory (1)
2 laboratories accredited in CAMBODIA through NATA & BOA (Vietnam)
Rubber testing Laboratory (1); Micro-biology (1)
Cambodia Product Certification Scheme accredited by NA
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute (BSTI) Management System
Certification
Body by NA
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO
Cape Town
No.28
Pan-African institutions of quality infrastructure
(ARSO, AFRIMETS and AFRAC)
Accreditation: regional cooperation bodies
APLAC - Asia
PAC - Pacific
Pacific Laboratory Accreditation
Accreditation
Cooperation
Cooperation
Inter American
Accreditation
Co-operation
European
African Cooperation
Accreditation On Accreditation
(AFRAC) launched
in September 2010
APLAC, PAC, IAAC, EA and its MLA members are signatories to the ILAC and IAF
international multilateral arrangements
AFRAC is not a signatory to the ILAC and IAF international MLAs
No.29
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.29
Metrology: regional cooperation bodies
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.30
UNIDO-BIPM-Norad Support to AFRIMETS
Support institutional development of
AFRIMETS:
1. Strategic Roadmap development
2. Pan-African Metrology School, Feb 2011
3. Strengthen technical structures (twining
with other RMOs)
4. Developing pool of assessors
5. Creation of Key and Supplementary
comparisons for priority areas
Budget: € 630,000
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.31
UNIDO Programmes
Regional Trade: UNIDO/EU - UEMOA Programme
Budget: € 14.0 million
Donor: EU
Productive Capacities and Quality Promotion
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•
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Food safety, productivity and quality promotion
68 pilot enterprises prepared for ISO 9001
National and regional Quality awards
Training of journalists in consumerism and product quality
Standards and Conformity Assessment
• Harmonization of standards for export products
• Harmonization of testing procedures, reg. database on labs
• Upgrading of 50 laboratories, 24 for international accreditation
Regional accreditation scheme
• Training of 16 Lab. auditors
• Training of 40 ISO 9001 auditors
UEMOA/ECOWAS Phase 2: (€ 14.0 million)
UEMOA Upgrading funded by AfD: (€ 11.0 million)
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
In cooperation with:
Microbiology
Laboratory in Côte
d’Ivoire recently
received COFRAC
ISO/IEC 17025
accreditation for food
testing (Sept. 2007)
No.32
UNIDO Programmes
Regional Trade: ECOWAS/ UEMOA and Mauritania Programme
Budget: € 14.0 million Donor: EU
 Standardization
 Product Testing/Metrology
Lab upgrading and accreditation: fish, cotton, fruits &
vegetables around 40 labs in a total of 16 countries.
 Development of a regional accreditation service
 Product Inspection / Consumer Affairs
 Quality promotion
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.33
Trade Capacity Building for Ghana
Budget: US$ 2.7 million
Donor: Switzerland (SECO)
Project Date: 2007-2010  2nd Phase: supply-chain approach
• Support to standards development (Ghana Standards Board)
• National traceability system for horticultural products
• Systems certification capability of GSB (for quality systems and
food safety systems)
• Upgrading testing laboratories (Microbiology, Pesticide residue,
Textile, Seeds, Chemical)
• Upgrading the Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorate
(EU Competent Authority)
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.34
Pilot Programme for Enterprise Upgrading,
Standardization and Quality in Cameroon
Budget: EUR 3.5 million
Donor: European Union
Project Date: 2008-2012
Standardization and Quality component:
• Awareness raising in public and private sector, quality
promotion
• Training of support infrastructure and service providers
• Laboratory upgrading and accreditation (mycotoxin testing)
• Enterprise assistance towards certification (ISO 9001, ISO
14001 and ISO 22000)
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No.35
EU- Central Africa ( CEMAC )
“Programme d’Appui au Commerce et a
lIntegration Economique (PACIE)
• Euro 15 Mn
– Quality Infrastructure € 7 Mn
– Private Sector Development € 7 Mn
– Industrial Policy € 300,000
UNIDO Identified for implementation
Project commencing in 2012
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No.36
UNIDO TCB Programmes (TA combining Supply-side & Conformity)
Regional Trade: EAC
(Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda)
Budget: € 2.3 million
Donor: Norway
Trade capacity building in agro-products for the establishment and proof of compliance
with international market requirements…with special focus on regional cooperation.
 Enhancement of enterprises capacity to produce according to international market
requirements
 Improved and coordinated food safety framework at the regional (EAC) level
 Strengthening of export-oriented support services: Quality Infrastructure (standard
setting, laboratories infrastructure / product certification, accreditation of
laboratories, metrology/calibration of testing laboratory equipment) for Honey, Fruits
and vegetables, and Fish products.
more solidified local economies;
impact on employment, economic wealth and poverty alleviation.
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No.37
Programme de Prévention de la Contamination par l’Ochratoxine A en Côte d’Ivoire
Budget: EUR 1.9 million
Donor: European Union
Project Date: 2007-2010
Objective: Secure the cocoa and coffee export to the EU market
 Avoid SPS rejection through OTA contamination below MRLs
Activities:
Scientific studies to determine
•
Contamination at national level;
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Critical contamination points from the field to the boat;
•
Sampling procedures: national plan tested and validated.
Laboratories upgrading
Training on techniques to avoid OTA contamination
Negotiations with EU services and Codex
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Project Results
1. Studies
•
Value of rejection if OTA contamination limit = 2 µg: 2008-2009 400 m €;
2007-2008: 250 m €
•
When healthy pods and healthy seeds are used, moderate contamination can
be observed independently of post harvest treatment
Insect bite, rotten and injured pods: danger, late harvest: danger
•
2. Laboratories upgrading
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Needs assessment; upgrade of premises and equipment; preparation of
accreditation
2 Labs for OTA analysis; > 3.500 analysis
3. Training and extension
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Films and training materials for illiterate; training of trainers and rural radio
Value chain actors: 2.600 villages and cooperatives; >100,000 value chain actors
4. Negotiations
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Codex Alimentarius: active national participation to dedicate working group
DG SANCO at EC
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UNIDO well-positioned in ICCO pilot countries
UNIDO
intervention areas
ICCO Pilot Countries
Cameroon
Ghana
Togo
Standardization
General support
to NSB
National Quality
Scheme
Harmonization
All priority import
of regional
export products
standards
Metrology
Study:
Legal Metrology
Development
Density,
Viscosity
(3 labs)
Certification
ISO 9001
ISO 14001
ISO 22000
(HACCP)
Laboratory
Accreditation
Other
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
Côte d’Ivoire
Nigeria
As Togo plus
support for ISO
meetings
All priority import
export products
Mass
Volume
Temperature
Pressure
Mass
Volume
Temperature
Pressure
Mass
Length
Volume
Temperature
ISO 22000
HACCP
ISO 9001
ISO 22000
and HACCP
ISO 9001
ISO 22000
and HACCP
ISO 22000
HACCP
Microbiology
(Oxchratoxin)
Chemical
Microbiology
Chemical
Pesticide R.
Microbiology
Heavy Metals
Biomedical
Microbiology
Physicochemie
Microbiology
Chemical
Pesticide R.
National Quality
Plan
Quality Policy
Traceability
Inspection and
Border Controls
Inspection and
Border Controls
National Metrology
US$ 2.0 mn
EU – Euro 20 Mn
No.40
UNIDO
Publications, Technical
Centers and Knowledge
Portals
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No.41
LABNETWORK
www.labnetwork.org
The site benefits:
- Laboratories (environmental, metrology,
testing, chemical, microbiology, textile, etc.)
- Professional laboratory staff in developing
countries
- Exporters from developing countries
- Industry, in particular small and mediumsized enterprises, seeking metrology and
calibration laboratories in developing countries
- Emerging accreditation/certification
bodies
- Laboratories with the potential to obtain
accreditation
- Academia and researchers
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
No.42
Building trust – The Conformity Assessment Toolbox
Contents:
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Translated into Spanish (by COPANT)
UNIDO/TCB/LG/080910/ISO Cape Town
Basic concepts of conformity
assessment
Conformity assessment techniques
Conformity assessment schemes and
systems
Conformity assessment bodies
How UNIDO can help with setting up a
quality infrastructure
Case studies
Free Download at: http://www.unido.org
No.43
Trade Standards
Compliance Report 2010
Project Objective:
Design and establish an
innovative annual
publication on compliance
challenges and advocating
related technical assistance
Publication date:
January 2011
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Detention Analysis- US-FDA; EU-RASFF
Example: Country Analysis Indonesia
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Reason for detention
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Donor Funded – TCB Training Centres
UNIDO-VIMTA South-South Training
Facility for Testing Laboratories
Hyderabad, India
UNIDO Centre for
South-South
Industrial
Cooperation (India)
Target beneficiaries:
Testing laboratories (Chemical, Food, Microbiology,
Pharmaceutical)
National Standards bodies
Quality control laboratories for industries
Quality control labs of export houses
Import product testing laboratories
UNIDO-KRISS Training Programme in Metrology
Daejon, Republic of Korea
Target beneficiaries:
National metrology institutes
Calibration laboratories
Parameters covered:
Mass, length, volume, pressure, temperature, force and
electrical
No. of trainees:
No. of trainees:
100 during 2010-2011
60 ; During 2011-2012
Funding:
Funding:
UCSSIC (India) USD 273,460
Vimta Labs Ltd., USD 100,000 (in kind)
UNIDO
USD 156,000
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Govt. of RoK € 113,000
KRISS
€ 100,000 (in kind)
UNIDO
€ 50,000
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ICCO- UNIDO Cooperation
 Two meetings UNIDO- ICCO in London 2010-11
 Synergy with ongoing UNIDO projects useful
 UNIDO experience in Cocoa (Côte-d’Ivoire)
 UNIDO active at Regional and National Level
 (UEMOA, ECOWAS, EAC, SADC, CEMAC)
 UNIDO support to AFRIMET, AFRAC beneficial
 UNIDO important partner for the pilot countries
(Cameroon, Côte-d’Ivoire, Togo, Nigeria, Ghana)
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ICCO- UNIDO Cooperation
Joint activities could include following areas:
• Lab accreditation (Labnet- as a resource)
• Ensuring traceable Metrology
• Training of lab technicians
– (UNIDO centres of excellence)
• Common fund raising for future cooperation:
1. Development of new test methods/standards
2. Training of laboratories/ private actors on new test procedures
3. Training of economic actors on new contractual arrangements
4. Development of traceability
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CONCLUSIONS
• Standards, Metrology & conformity capacity important for trade
• Standards landscape and drivers changing
– Increasing Food safety
– Globalised Value chains
– Sustainability issues
– Supplier driven private standards
• ICCO target countries require Quality infrastructure
• UNIDO- significant presence in the region
• ICCO- UNIDO partnership beneficial for all
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Thank You
for your attention!
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