Technical Cooperation. 1. The Parties shall strengthen their cooperation in the field of standards, technical regulations, metrology, market surveillance, accreditation and conformity assessment systems with a view to increasing the mutual understanding of their respective systems and facilitating access to their respective markets. To that end, they may establish regulatory dialogues at both horizontal and sectoral levels.
Technical Cooperation. In order to facilitate the implementation of this Agreement, developed country Members shall provide, on request and on mutually agreed terms and conditions, technical and financial cooperation in favour of developing and least-developed country Members. Such cooperation shall include assistance in the preparation of laws and regulations on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights as well as on the prevention of their abuse, and shall include support regarding the establishment or reinforcement of domestic offices and agencies relevant to these matters, including the training of personnel.
Technical Cooperation. 1. The Parties agree to cooperate and provide technical assistance, to the extent possible, in order to, inter alia: (a) encourage the implementation of this Chapter; (b) encourage the implementation of the TBT Agreement; (c) strengthen the relevant organizations of standardization, technical regulation, and conformity assessment, including their training of the human resources; (d) increase the cooperation between the standardizing, technical regulatory, or conformity assessment bodies in the Parties' territories, including participation and collaboration in international organizations; (e) enhance cooperation in the development and improvement of standards, technical regulations, and conformity assessment procedures; and (f) facilitate the consideration of any sector-specific proposal a Party makes for further cooperation between governmental and non-governmental standardizing or conformity assessment bodies in the Parties' territories. 2. Upon request of a Party that has an interest in developing a similar technical regulation of the other Party, that other Party shall endeavor to provide, to the extent practicable, relevant information, studies, or other documents, except for confidential information, on which it has relied in the development of the technical regulation.
Technical Cooperation. 1. The Parties agree that it is in their common interest for their competition authorities to work together in technical cooperation activities related to the implementation of competition law and policy.
Technical Cooperation. With a view to fulfill the objectives of this Chapter, the Parties shall, on the request of the other Party, cooperate in mutually determined terms and conditions. This may include:
Technical Cooperation. 1. Service suppliers of Members which are in need of such assistance shall have access to the services of contact points referred to in paragraph 2 of Article IV.
Technical Cooperation. 1. Each Party shall promote technical cooperation by its standardization and metrology bodies, providing information or technical assistance, to the extent possible, and on mutually-agreed terms, to assist in compliance with this Chapter and fortify standards- and metrology-related activities, processes, systems and measures.
Technical Cooperation. The Customs Administrations shall cooperate, when necessary and appropriate, in the areas of research, development and test of new customs procedures and enforcement aids and techniques, training activities of customs officers, and exchange of personnel between them.
Technical Cooperation. Each Party may provide the other Party with advice, information and technical cooperation, on mutually agreed terms and conditions to strengthen its sanitary and phytosanitary measures, as well as activities, processes and systems on this matter.
