This report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, and the direction of Anna Pietikäinen, Head of GOV’s Regulatory Policy Division. The authoring team was comprised of Marianna Karttunen, Alberto Morales, Ritwika Sengupta, and Hamsini Shankar, with the support of Kotone Yamamoto and Koby Kwakwa. The authors are thankful for strategic steering provided by Natalie Cohen, Giuseppa Ottimofiore (Regulatory Policy Division), and Florentin Blanc (formerly at the OECD Regulatory Policy Division) and comments from other OECD colleagues, in particular Stephanie Venuti, Katia Karousakis, Bob Diderich (Environment Directorate) and Silvia Sorescu (Trade and Agriculture Directorate), and with Andrea Uhrhammer for her editorial support. The paper was prepared for publication by Jennifer Stein.
The work underlying this report was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development through the National Metrology Institute of Germany. This report would not have been possible without the support of Germany’s National Metrology Institute (PTB), and the authors particularly thank Karl-Christian Göthner, Anna Kalkuhl who provided continuous support throughout the preparation of the report. The authors also thank BIPM for seconding Rahima Guliyeva, to OECD to support the project, and the British Standard Institution for seconding Ritwika Sengupta to the OECD for the preparation of this report.
The report benefitted from extensive interviews with stakeholders from standards and quality assurance (known as quality infrastructure) bodies, government authorities, multilateral organisations, and independent experts. The authors wish to thank the following individuals and institutions for their contributions and feedback: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Asociación de Organismos de Evaluación de la Conformidad (ASOCEC), ASTM International, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), British Standards Institution (BSI), European Committee for Standardization and European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CEN-CENELEC), Danish Accreditation Fund (DANAK), Department for Levelling Up, Communities and Housing (DLUCH), International Accreditation Forum (IAF), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), Institute de Salud Pública de Chile (ISP), International Trade Centre (ITC), Institute of Metrology of Bosnia and Herzegovina (IMBIH), Instituto Nacional de Calidad del Perú (INACAL), Badan Standardisasi Nasional (BSN), Instituto Nacional de Normalización de Chile (INN), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio de Costa Rica (MEIC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Metrology Centre (NMC), National Physical Laboratory (NPL), International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML), Office for Product Safety and Standards of the United Kingdom (OPSS), Pan African Quality Infrastructure (PAQI), Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA), Swedish National Board for Trade (NBT), United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Van Swinden Laboratorium (VSL), World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank Group (WBG), Beer Budoo, Donald McCrae.
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