Mutual Recognition Agreement Definition

*Restrictions: Capacity rules apply to routine surveillance inspections. In the future, the following types of products and inspection could be included in the scope of the agreement until further reflection is carried out: the Johnson government has moved away from these approaches. In its proposal for a Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the EU, the UK proposes an agreement on the mutual recognition of conformity assessment, “compatible” with the provisions of the EU-Canada agreement. It also proposes a separate agreement on the certification of marine equipment, “similar” to the EU`s agreement with the US. By granting mutual recognition to products covered by free trade agreements with Canada and Korea, but denying the same treatment for products originating in the UK, the EU could be violating WTO law. Mutual recognition of the rules has been put at stake by the BRITISH government in the Brexit negotiations, notably in Theresa May`s Florence speech and as an option for future regulation of financial services, but has been rejected by the EU. It is essential that “traditional” NRAs do not require states to harmonise rules (i.e. create common standards and technical rules), nor require parties to one MRA to recognise the requirements of the other as equivalent – MRIs are limited to recognising the competence of the partner`s CABs in conformity assessment. The UK document reaffirms the importance of regulatory autonomy – “respect for each party`s right to regulation” – but it also builds on earlier considerations by proposing that the agreement “creates a framework for each party to require the other to consider its technical regulation equivalent to its own regulation”. A traditional MRA is an agreement for the mutual recognition of “conformity assessment”. . . .