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National Quality InfrastructureTRTA3 Approach

EU-Philippines Trade Related Technical Assistance Project 3

Philippines Development Plan

b. The government shall set up a National Quality Infrastructure to integrate and coordinate series of activities involving metrology, standardization, testing, and accreditation and certification.

Chapter 3. page 96


TRTA 3 Financing Agreement:Strengthened capacity to develop and implement National Quality

Infrastructure


What is NQI good for?

• Helps spread best practices and therefore, boost PH industry competitiveness

• Ensures compliance of PH products with legal safety and consumer protection requirements

• Provides means of compliance to secure market access

• Optimize the resources of the public sector by generating growth and business opportunities


What is NQI good for?

• SMEs cannot sustain the quality of their product and therefore they cannot be reliable suppliers – lack application of standardization and conformity assessment practices

• There are sub-standards products on the market – lack of voluntary standardization and market surveillance

• Customs rejection of PH products remains high in key markets, e.g. US – lack of standardization, conformity assessment and accreditation

• Government in-house capacity cannot test all the products both for pre and post market control – lack of private accredited and trusted conformity assessment bodies


What is NQI?

What is Quality about?QUALITY

SAFETY

Consumer Protection

Mandatory minimum requirements

Technical Regulations

Regulators (BPS, BPI, FDA etc )

COMPETITIVENESS

Best product possible

Technically beyond minimum requirements

Voluntary Standardization

Private Sector


From Dr Sanetra

Safety Quality

Mandatory Voluntary

The lack of NQI means…

UNIDO, 2010. Meeting Standards, Winning Markets

There is widespread evidence that trade standards related infrastructural capacity and services are weak in many developing countries and that such weaknesses strongly impede efforts to establish and/or expand agri-food exports, and at the same time endanger effective local consumer protection.

Is there a NQI in the PH?

• Fragmentation of the existing NQI practices and their mandates

• NQI existing practices respond mostly to consumer protection, not to developing national industries

• The Private Sector does not yet have the ownership, responsibility and recognition in support of the NQI

• The overall knowledge of the benefits of NQI is very limited both in the Public and Private sector


What we need to do next?

Government Regulatory Practices• Learn the distinction between Technical

Regulations and Standards• Regulate only on safety, health, and

environment protection• Delegate conformity assessment and

voluntary standardization to independent and recognized organizations



NQI Institutions• Develop voluntary standardization as an

industry driven activity• Reinforce and secure an independent

accreditation body• Reinforce financially and institutionally the

national metrology laboratory



NQI Legislation/Policy• Formalize a key stakeholders WG to discuss

and agree on what the PH NQI should look like• Executive Order on National Quality Policy,

which should refer to a NQI Strategy and Road Map

• Establishment of a National Quality Council• Drafting of a National Quality Law


The TRTA3 approach

• Create a ‘temporary’ body to bring together the key stakeholders

• Ensure the training, facilitation and ‘challenge’ to the key stakeholders via participation of external experts

• Share international best practices• Strive for developing the framework of a formal

NQI legislation and permanent NQI Body


NQI Stakeholders Meeting(s)

NQI Stakeholders meeting

Main Deliveries: Recommendations on NQI Policy, PH NQI Strategy, Road Map and draft NQI Law (including NQI Council)Composition: 14 participants (7 Regulators and 7 Industry + Consumers + Civil Society)Timeframe: 2013 to end 2016Frequency: once every quarterTechnical Assistance: Training, resource person and support in drafting the Strategy & Road Map


NQI Key Questions

• How can we ensure the independence of standardization and accreditation? How are they going to be funded?

• Which organization will be in charge of Voluntary Standardization?

• How are we going to organize accreditation to ensure efficiency and international recognition?

• How much will the public sector delegate to the private sector?• How can we make those NQI institutions self-sustainable?

Through competition, through national recognition, through services, through all of them…?

• How will we promote a culture of quality?

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