State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) of China and the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce (MEIC) of Costa Rica held a bilateral meeting on product quality and safety and standardization via video on July 15, 2022.
During the meeting, the two sides shared the status quo of laws and regulations in the area of product quality and safety supervision in China and Costa Rica respectively, held in-depth discussions on the key topics such as the list of quality and safety supervision for national key industrial products, product quality supervision and spot check mechanism, production license system of industrial products, risk assessment and international standardization cooperation in related fields. They agreed to continue to enhance the cooperation on capability improvement in the areas such as standardization and product quality and safety supervision.
The meeting is aimed at putting in place the MoU signed by SAMR and MEIC in April. Within this framework, the two sides will work together to explore cooperation on information exchange, experience sharing and capability improvement, improve the level of product quality and safety in bilateral trade, and protect the safety of consumers, so as to better facilitate the bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
The meeting was attended by the representatives from Quality Supervision Department and Standards Innovative Management Department of SAMR, and China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS).
Source: China Standardization Magazine, 5th issue, 2022.
