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, Handicraft and Commerce, Technological Research, Legislative Simplification of the Republic of San Marino, Fabio Righi and the President of the Italian Standardization Body (UNI) Giuseppe Rossi signed this morning a Three-year Framework Agreement, the aims of which are to seek cooperation in identifying and developing a portfolio of services and programs for research, innovation, standardization, internationalization and training, the experimentation of a technical standardization model applicable to the territorial, economic reality and Titan policy and the assistance in the 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 financed at, or internationally, level, especially on the national subject of internationalization, where the activity of “standardization” 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 the search 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 the San Marino citizens, actually the majority, who operate 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 characteristics of our economic fabric are not even considered at the time of drafting those same rules, from other than our companies were excluded from those production and work chains. With the signing of the agreement not only the foundations are laid for the structuring of a “San Marino Standardization Body”, proportionate, obviously, to our context, and which can therefore autonomously defend the Republic in the international field, but also guarantees the possibility of the operators took partesam at the pre-standardization tables, actively contributing to the protection of the country’s peculiarities from the point of view of collaboration with neighboring Italy that to strengthen and consolidate the relationship between the two countries in a strategic key more and more economically . ” 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 ones) and therefore to improve the definition of the companies in the respective countries that respect them. It also considers the mutual commitment to spread the culture of standardization as a further way to create the conditions for increasing the circulation of products / services in an increasingly open market. I hope that the collaboration will lead to the creation of a successful San Marino standardization body, to which he wishes from now on ”.
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