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EU Launches Tool to Help Exporters Benefit From MRAs

The EU's Directorate-General for Trade launched a new tool, dubbed the "Access2Conformity," which will let EU exporters take better advantage of Mutual Recognition Agreements with third countries. The tool will let EU exporters "identify where in the EU they can…

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perform product testing and certification when exporting to certain third countries," the bloc said Nov. 13. The trade directorate highlighted the fact that MRAs can allow an exporting member state to designate their own conformity assessment body as "capable of testing and certifying exported products to make sure that they comply with the rules and regulations of the importing trade partner."