India, Slovak Republic ink agreement for standards formulation

NEW DELHI: India and Slovak Republic today signed an agreement to facilitate cooperation and exchange of information about standards formulation, testing facilities and third party product certification, among others.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and the Slovak Office of Standards, Metrology and Testing (SOSMT), BIS said in a statement.

The MoU will allow exchange of scientific and technical information on rules and procedures for standards formulation, comments on international standards at various stages of development, rules and procedures for third party product certification and Management Systems Certification and technical information on certification activities, it added.

Information related to in-house manuals for product certification and management systems certification and testing facilities available in their laboratories and/or network will also be exchanged.

"The objectives of this MoU are to facilitate closer cooperation and provide a mechanism by which BIS and SOSMT can work together towards the common aim of strengthening standardisation, and conformity assessment activities and facilitate sharing of expertise and mutual trade," BIS said.

BIS is the national standards body of India engaged in harmonious development of activities of standardisation, marking, and quality certification of goods and for matters connected therewith.

SOSMT is the central state administration body for technical standardisation, metrology and quality and conformity assessment in Slovak Republic.