EuropeAid project of technical assistance to Uzbekistan on standardization

 This project is funded by the EuropeAid programme under which the European Union offers its support to the implementation of the “Partnership and Co-operation Agreement” (PCA) between EU and Uzbekistan.

 The first EU experts started arriving in Tashkent in October 2007 for the first meetings with the main beneficiary Uzstandard. Today, on 16 November 2007, the project is being for the first time publicly introduced in Uzbekistan, on the occasion of the international conference organized by the Committee on Industry, Construction and Trade Issues of the Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, jointly with the EuropeAid project «Extended Support for the Implementation of the PCA between EU and Uzbekistan, SIPCA-III». The conference held in Tashkent’s NGMK Business Centre is covering an important topic of “Technical Regulations”, the topic which is very close to standardization, the main subject of this new EU EuropeAid project in Uzbekistan.

 This new project - “Institutional Development of Uzstandard Agency” - will be implemented in Uzbekistan by a European consortium consisting of BSI, the “British Standards Institution”, the consortium leader, AETS, “Application Europeenne de Technologies et de Services” of France, and ICON Institute of Germany.