Waleed bin Falah al Mansouri director general of the Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology (Standards)said that the Technical Council of the Standardization Cooperation Council of Arab Gulf states will discuss during its fourteenth meeting, which will begin Monday / Tuesday / Jeddah,...

Saudi Arabia and the two will continue a memorandum of the Secretariat General standardization of the Gulf Cooperation Council negotiations on the accession of the Republic of Yemen to membership in the standardization of the GCC countries, Al-Mansouri added in a press statement yesterday that he will be at a meeting with the UAE standards and specifications for the note of the secretariat of the standardization of the Gulf Cooperation Council on the Steering Committee for the construction of information centers and linking GCC General Secretariat and the note of the standardization projects on standard specifications and technical regulations Gulf ( Remainder of the 2008) and the memorandum of the Secretariat of the Commission on the draft rehabilitation and prepare specialists in the field of Standards and Metrology matching and information centers and the adoption of incumbent training in 2009.

He also said that the Arts Council of the standardization of the GCC countries would also discuss a memorandum on the role of the regional body under the ISO Council resolution No. 7 of 2008 and the balance of 2008 and notes of the secretariat of the standardization body on the adoption of the draft standards and technical regulations approved projects submitted for adoption Gulf and a memorandum on the draft system Common measurement of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the legislative system to control the common products in the GCC common market and the requirements of implementation and coordination between the committees of the specifications and the Gulf to verify the conformity of the issuance and amendment of standards and technical regulations and the Gulf Committee to verify the conformity.

He explained the process of establishing a regional center for adoption to verify the conformity and measurement and calibration of the Gulf Cooperation Council includes the development of an accreditation system for testing and calibration laboratories and seeking to develop a system for matching Gulf are all a product of conformity standards and technical regulations to facilitate the movement of the Gulf of these products between GCC pointing That the technical standardization of the Gulf Cooperation Council meeting to discuss progress in the establishment of the Accreditation Center of the GCC countries.

Walid bin Falah Mansuri Said that such projects will help greatly in supporting the customs union and a single point of entry between the GCC countries will also protect the result of the influx of consumer goods and various types of products as a result of globalization and liberalization of markets, adding that the right of protection of consumer goods and non-conformity with specifications to ensure the health and safety As well as the right to be assisted to the statement important role to play in moving the economy, through awareness and management to increase consumer awareness and to express their needs and requirements in the specifications of commodities and products clearly and precisely where help manufacturers to identify different levels of quality of these products.

He noted that the standardization Auhtority of the countries of the Gulf Cooperation is a regional organization with a membership of the National Standardization GCC consumer protection is an important part of her duties in the preparation of specifications and procedures to verify conformity of goods and products for standards and Metrology Gulf or the science of measurement science Industrial, legal and stressing the keenness to develop standards and technical regulations for goods and products that provide health and safety requirements and good performance and the preservation of the environment, identifying characteristics and specifications of products and recipes and methods of quality control and quality assurance, one of the important and powerful tools that provide protection for consumers.


He added that the united efforts of national standardization bodies and the standardization of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Commission seeks to provide protection for the consumer, which is one of key partners and stakeholders in the process of preparing technical specifications and regulations which include mainly the manufacturer and merchant and the consumer are parties to the process industry, adding that the body Group specifications for the protection of consumers and maintain the health and safety, such as product specifications and safety of food products, electrical appliances and building and construction, automobiles, tires, toys and other specific health and safety performance and efficiency of goods and products.

He said that the standardization of the Gulf Cooperation Council at the direction of its board adopted a policy of adopting international standards in their original language as different Gulf standards to be as a fast track to increase the number of Gulf standard specifications to cover various goods and products to serve the requirements of the customs union in line with international trends and practices, explaining that the international level There are a number of international organizations that contribute to its work and is in the consumer protection such as the International Organization for Standardization ISO and the International Electrotechnical Commission IEC and the Codex Commission, which issued international standards in food and operating under a committee of experts in the field.

He stressed that cooperation and coordination among all relevant authorities on consumer protection upgrade methods and ways to protect consumers, particularly if they are to introduce new concepts and legislation, such as bear legal liability to the manufacturer for all manufactured products and imported all imports and raised in the market as well as policies Retrieval products found to be deficient in the performance or integrity of the markets as well as work on the records of the inventory and analysis of incidents to identify the nature of accidents caused by products and by shortcomings in order to take appropriate action.

The Arts Council of the standardization of the Gulf Cooperation Council had discussed the strategic plan of the Commission until 2009 and discussed the outputs of the project for developing verification activity of matching the level of the GCC countries to achieve coherence and integration among the GCC countries and strengthen the march towards a customs union, GCC common market in accordance with the schedules were set during the Meeting to elaborate on the draft verification of conformity Gulf RCAS and operational plan for implementation and discuss the program of work for the transitional period until the implementation of the requirements of the draft verification of matching the Gulf in addition to discussing the recommendations of the working group Chairperson of the project.