Since 2013, the technical assistance provided by the European Union’s ARISE and ARISE Plus programmes has focused on assisting the ASEAN Secretariat and ASEAN Member States (AMS) to establish and the ASEAN Trade Repository (ATR) and engage the respective the National Trade Repositories (NTRs), building the skills on NTRs/ATR content development, reporting processes, and the templates and common classification language, especially in relation to Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) in order to ensure that a standardised and harmonious notification process occurs regionally and in each AMS.
This National Workshop aims at revisiting the key concepts, guidelines and procedures for populating the Philippines NTR (PNTR) with the relevant trade-related information, stoke-taking on the current degree of PNTR operationalization, particularly with respect to the process of identification, classification and upload of NTMs, in the all-important area of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) regulation. The focus of the Workshop is on preparing the NTMs uploads to populate the ATR with and to do so by providing practical training to the relevant line agencies. Ideally, at least one representative from each ministry or agency or body that plays a key role vis–vis the TBT area of regulation should participate to the this National Workshop.
The workshop is held in Makati City (the Philippines) for two days, 4-5 July 2019.
The complete report of the event please read National Workshop on the Identification, Classification and Packaging of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) to be Uploaded onto the ASEAN Trade Repository (ATR).
