Hosted by CNIS, the meeting on the sharing and analysis of standards for product circularity data exchange in the APEC region was held in Beijing on December 6-7 in hybrid forms.
The APEC is the important economic cooperation forum and the intergovernmental cooperation organization at the highest level in the Asia-Pacific region. Supported by the APEC Sub-Committee on Standards and Conformance (SCSC) and SAMR, experts were invited to give keynote speeches to share their experience, who were from ISO/TC 323 on circular economy and APEC economies, including Thailand, Chile, the U.S., Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Wang Yuhan, Deputy Director of International Cooperation Department of SAMR, and Catherine Chevauché, Chair of ISO/TC 323, attended and addressed the meeting.
Focusing on relevant standards for product circularity data exchange in the APEC region, the participants held indepth discussions on issues such as how to improve the exchange efficiency of product circular data among APEC economies. Keynote speeches were made by Jérôme Petry, Convenor of ISO/TC 323/WG 5, Witchuda Daud, Director of National Metal and Materials Technology Center in Thailand, Jean-Pierre Doussoulin, Professor of Austral University of Chile, Douglas Mulhall, Researcher from Delft University of Technology.
China has attached great importance to standardization research and innovation. SAMR has been vigorously supporting the international cooperation on standardization, which is an important way to stimulate creativity and strengthen communication. Directed by SAMR, CNIS expands standardization dialogues under the mechanisms such as APEC, to deepen communication with regional standardization organizations. Following the global trends of green, low-carbon and circular development, CNIS will enhance the cooperation in the area of international standardization and offer its wisdom to realize global sustainable development goals.
Source: China Standardizaiton Magazine, issue 1 in 2024
