GLOBAL OBJECTIVE:
To support the Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality in the alignment of quality
infrastructure to EU's regulations and best practices and in the preparation of the negotiations of an Agreement on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance (ACAA) in view of EOS's role in
these negotiations .
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE:
The specific objectives of this assignment are to:
Prepare a twinning/TA project fiche focusing on strengthening the Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality in improving the regulatory and legislative framework governing the Egyptian Quality Infrastructure
in
the field of industrial
products especially
ACAA priority
sectors
while
possibly recommending additional
priorities related to national interest (to be clearly defined through gap analysis).
Prior to the preparation of the project fiche, a review of the currently applicable
technical regulations in those sectors, in Egypt and the EU, will be carried out.
REQUESTED SERVICES
The services to be carried out by the EU experts to achieve the specific objectives are as follows:
a) Conducting
a review of the technical regulations, (standards and other if relevant) applicable in Egypt in the ACAA sectors, vis-à-vis those applicable in the EU as mentioned above
in 2.2.
The
review will identify any gaps and
define challenges/problems and give a
route to
reach expected results as per the Egyptian
interests with primary focus on the sectors by order of priority for the ACAA negotiations process.
b) Conducting
a preliminary review of conformity assessment landscape in Egypt and
assess regulatory/legislative gaps and implementation practices vis-à-vis those in place in
EU countries.
c) Preparation of two technical reports on the findings of the reviews mentioned above, including a set of recommendations
to be considered to achieve expected results for standards harmonization and alignment of conformity assessment procedures with
European best practice in the above-mentioned
sectors and areas. It is envisaged that the
team of experts will deliver the technical review reports within 10 weeks from the start of their assignment. The proposals
arising from these reports will serve as a basis for the
scope of work to be contained in the twinning/TA fiche.
d) Organizing a round table in order
to communicate the main findings of the review phase (where institutions beyond the EOS are involved, representatives from these institutions will also be invited to the round table discussion – this is in particular relevant for the report on conformity
assessment landscape) and present a draft Twinning/TA Project
Fiche for validation, discuss recommendations of the review report and the proposed actions to be included in a Twinning/TA Fiche with EOS management, staff and other
relevant stakeholders to obtain their feedback.
e) Finalisation of a Twinning/TA Project Fiche depending on which instrument appears
to
be the most appropriate.
