The Department of Consumer Affairs and German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) organised two days event on Quality Infrastructure (QI) on July 7-8 in New Delhi.
On the first day, experts discussed QI and emerging topics such as circular economy.
The German representatives highlighted the importance of the bilateral cooperation on quality infrastructure and noted that the Indo-German QI-Days provided an important platform for dialogues to share information and expertise on issues of mutual interest to support bilateral trade and economic activities.
About Quality infrastructure
Quality infrastructure is a system that covers everything needed to ensure safe, high-quality products and services: from standardisation, conformity assessment (testing, inspection and certification) and accreditation to metrology and market surveillance.
These elements form the system and processes that protect people, health and the environment.
Quality infrastructure plays a vital role for business, innovation and trade – both nationally and across borders.
According to the World Bank, Quality Infrastructure (QI) denotes the ecosystem of public and private institutions as well as legal and regulatory frameworks and practices that establish and implement standardization, accreditation, metrology, and conformity assessment (testing, inspection and certification).
The QI system is required for the effective operation of the domestic market, and the international recognition of QI services is important to enable access to foreign markets.
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