Regional Standards SPS & Technical Regulations

Through the Regional Standards and SPS programme, TMEA aims to build sustainable Quality Systems at the national and regional levels in the EAC to support the implementation of the EAC Common Market Protocol. This is expected boost intra-EAC trade, and increase agricultural exports from the EAC region to the rest of the world. The programme builds on lessons and results from TMEA's Strategy 1, where product certification facilitated faster standards-related border clearance. Essentially, the programme is a trade facilitation tool specific to standards, technical regulations, Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures, and associated conformity assessment processes.