To assure Tanzanian consumers of the safety and quality of imported goods they buy, and to protect Tanzanian manufacturers from unfair competition, the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS), a statutory organization of the government of Tanzania, implemented guidelines called the Pre-Shipment Verification of Conformity (PVoC) to Standards Programme. All consignments subject to PVoC must obtain…
To import any commodity into Kenya, an importer will have to enlist the services of a clearing agent who will process the import documentation through Kenya Customs electronically on the Simba 2005 system and clear the goods on your behalf. Kenya has a pre-shipment inspection requirement (the Pre-Shipment Verification of Conformity, or PVoC) for exports…
The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) was established by the Standard Organisation of Nigeria Act (No 56) of 1971 with the mandate to set the Standards for manufacturing and sale of products, materials, processes, and services among others; to certify and provide assistance in the production of quality of goods and services, and improve measurement…
GCC Standardization Organization (GSO) announced the official launching of the GSO Certificate Tracking System. The system offers pertinent information to the relevant authorities responsible for border control and market surveillance in GSO member states. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is a regional intergovernmental union consisting of seven Arab countries – the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom…
The IECEE System, originally operated by the CEE (International (European) Commission for Conformity Certification of Electrical Equipment), was integrated intoEC in 1985 as the CB Scheme of the IECEE. Today this scheme is called “Scheme of the IECEE for Mutual Recognition of Test Certificates for Electrotechnical Equipment and Components (CB Scheme) IECEE is operating Third…
SAA Approvals is accredited by the Joint Accreditation Service of Australia and New Zealand (JAS-ANZ) as a third-party certification body. SAA Approvals is now gazetted by the NSW Office of Fair Trading Department of Commerce as a Recognised External Approvals Scheme. This allows us to issue Certificates of Approval for declared and non-declared electrical equipment…
The PVoC must be available upon the arrival of a shipment to Kenya. Where it arrives without the PVoC, or where it is issued with a date later than the shipment’s arrival, it will be presumed that the procedures for the pre-export verification were not followed and the importer will automatically be assessed a 15% penalty…
Topics covered in the Standard include safety case construction, risk analysis, safety-relevant aspects of the design process, testing, tool qualification, autonomy validation, data integrity, human-machine interaction (for non-drivers), and life cycle concerns, metrics, and conformance assessment. Security is addressed as a requirement, but details are currently outside the scope of the proposed Standard. Conversely, UL 4600…
The SABER system is a new mandatory importer-based computer system facilitating online certification of imports into Saudi Arabia. The long-term plan is for SABER to become the only system for clearing goods through Saudi customs and replace the SASO COC. All shipments arriving in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will require a Product CoC and…
Two certification marks could interest any business exporting products to Saudi Arabia – the SASO Quality Mark and the Gulf Mark. The use of the SASO Quality mark can be licensed for the products of a company that has an effective administrative system, which can ensure that the production of a product is in ongoing…
