The rights and obligations of the Parties in respect of technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment shall be governed by the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade.

The Parties shall strengthen their co-operation in the field of technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment with a view to increasing the mutual understanding of their respective systems and facilitating access to their respective markets. To this end, they shall in particular co-operate in:

(a)	reinforcing the role of international standards as a basis for technical regulations including conformity assessment procedures;
(b)	promoting the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies on the basis of relevant ISO/IEC Standards and Guides; and
(c)	promoting the mutual acceptance of conformity assessment results of the above bodies which have been recognised under an appropriate multilateral agreement between their respective accreditation systems or bodies.