Preventing International Trade Barriers | TBT

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

In your business, you would certainly anticipate problems in order to avoid them. The same goes for regulatory barriers: if you export a product, you probably prefer to be alerted early about new technical requirements applying to that product. In the EU, the internal market ensures that products move freely. But what if you are exporting outside the EU, in third countries?

The WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade is here to help you.

It helps EU economic operators to get acquainted with rules applying to products in third countries (see section "being informed");
It allows unnecessary technical obstacles to international trade to be detected and removed at source, often with your contribution (see section "being heard").

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Notifications and comments

As of 1 February 2022, the EU will publish:

EU TBT notifications;
comments from WTO Members on EU TBT notifications, provided that such comments do not contain personal data; and
EU replies to comments from WTO Members on EU TBT notifications.

The EU will also publish:

TBT notifications from WTO Members to which the EU provided comments;
EU comments on TBT notifications from WTO Members; and
Replies of WTO Members to EU comments on their notifications, provided that such replies do not contain personal data.

Finally, the EU aims at publishing TBT notifications of EU Member States.

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