Cooperation agreement between San Marino and the Italian Standardization Body
“The signing of the framework agreement with UNI lays the foundations for the structuring of a San Marino standardization body
The Secretary of State for Industry, Crafts and Commerce, Technological Research, Legislative Simplification of the Republic of San Marino, Fabio Righi and the President of the Italian Standards Body (UNI) Giuseppe Rossi this morning they signed a three-year Framework Agreement, the aims of which are to be sought cooperation in the identification and development of a portfolio of services and research, innovation, standardization, internationalization and development training programs, the experimentation of a technical standardization model applicable to the territorial, economic and political reality of the Titano and assistance in structuring of a National Standardization Body of the Republic of San Marino.
The programs and initiatives will concern the access of San Marino economic operators to standardization activities, within the UNI Technical Commissions; the possibility, for them, to participate in national representations for European regulatory offices (CEN) and to present a UNI pre-regulatory activity by activating work tables for the reference development; mutual involvement in research and innovation projects funded at or international level, especially in the national field of internationalization, where the “standardization” activity is explicitly or implicitly referred to among the European aims of the projects; the definition and implementation of activities for the dissemination of technical-scientific knowledge and the culture of standardization; the recognition, by the Secretariat of State for Industry, Crafts and Commerce, of the value of products and services certified with the UNI Mark also in the territory of the Republic of San Marino and access, for San Marino operators, to certification with the UNI Mark for their own products and services; access to the UNI archives and assistance in searching for technical standards for San Marino economic operators by opening a special “UNI counter” in the territory of the Republic of San Marino, at the Secretariat of State for Industry, Crafts and Commerce or other subject, where activated a subscription for free consultation of the entire UNI regulatory catalog; the establishment of specific regulatory “packages” of interest to San Marino operators, to be made available to them at favorable conditions; UNI’s support and assistance in the future planning of a specific National Standardization Body of the Republic of San Marino.
Fabio Righi (Secretary of State for Industry of the Republic of San Marino): “The agreement represents a fundamental step forward for all San Marino companies, actually the majority, which work in the Italian production chains. from a technical point of view, those supply chains are governed by rules that San Marino operators have “suffered” up to now, with the danger on the one hand that the peculiarities of our economic fabric are not even with regard to the time of drafting those same rules, on the other that our companies be excluded from those production and work chains. With the signing of the agreement, the foundations are not only laid for the structuring of a “San Marino Standardization Body”, proportionate, obviously, to our context, and which can therefore autonomously present the Republic in the international arena, but the possibility is guaranteed for San Marino operators to officially take part in the pre-standardization tables by contributing to the protection of the economic peculiarities of the country from the point of view of collaboration with neighboring Italy which leads to the strengthening and consolidation of the relationship between the two countries in a strategic key. “
Giuseppe Rossi (UNI President): “This agreement makes it possible to enrich the skills present in the UNI technical bodies (but also in the European CEN and international ISO ones) and therefore to improve the definition of
UNI is a non-profit, whose members – about 4,500 – are companies, freelancers, associations, scientific and educational institutes, public administrations … For 100 years it has been carrying out technical standardization activities in all industrial, commercial and tertiary sector with the exception of electrical and electrical engineering. Standards are documents that work environmental characteristics (performance, sustainability, safety, organization, sustainability, etc.) of a product, process, service or profession, according to the “state of the art” and are the result of of tens of thousands of experts in Italy and around the world. In a nutshell, they are winning documents “how to do things well” guaranteeing safety, respect for the environment and reliable performance. The role of UNI, as the Italian national standardization body, has been recognized by the EU Regulation 1025/2012 and by the Legislative Decree 223/2017 on technical regulations. UNI participates, on behalf of Italy, in the international ISO and European CEN standardization activity.
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