Completed Projects

Project: Regional Training Program on Standardization

Agency: The Caribbean Regional Organization on Standards and Quality (CROSQ) and the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards (TTBS)

Overview:

This initiative was designed to provide staff of Standards Bureaus in OECS countries, Belize, Haiti and Suriname with the training needed for them to function effectively in their role as standards development officers. This is a prerequisite for regional standards bureaus to fulfill their obligations under the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade agreement.

Outcome:

A three-week workshop on all aspects of working in a Bureau of Standards was delivered to 17 standards officers from the OECS and Haiti as well as
technical officer of the Caribbean Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ).

Technical expertise was provided for the delivery of training modules on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP), Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) requirements and Metrology.

The participants were impressed by the quality of training delivered and feel better prepared to deal with their responsibilities on returning home.

Focus of C-TRADECOM Training:

Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)

•  SPS standards and harmonization

•  SPS Agreements

•  Compliance with SPS measures for developing countries

•  Impact of food safety standards (SPS) on world food trade for development, amidst globalization

•  Minimizing potential trade barriers resulting from SPS standards, while achieving the objective of food safety for all.

•  Food standards and Trade - Trends and patterns of processed food exports and Policy Implications for developing countries

•  SPS Compliance - WTO

•  Monitoring SPS regulations

•  SPS Implementation

•  SPS Enquiry Points

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)

•  Food Safety Standards for HACCP

•  HACCP principles and regulations

•  Ensuring Food Safety using HACCP

•  Establishment of HACCP systems and HACCP plan development

•  Certification of HACCP systems

Metrology

•  Transparency in International Trade

•  Legal Metrology

•  Legislation for Metrology

•  System of units and measurement

•  The Meter Convention

•  System of reference measurement standards and Traceability

•  Legal metrology instruments

•  Metrological Implementation

•  Approval of weights, measures, weighing and measurement instruments in trade and industry

•  Monitoring and control of pre-packaging

•  Mandatory calibration of measuring instruments used in Industry, Health and Environmental Protection

•  Guide to a structured legal metrology system

•  New Trends in Metrology re: a Global Metrology System

•  Roles of OIML, BIPM, CIPM