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EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
Directorate-General for Trade 
Directorate E - Neighbouring countries, USA and Canada 
USA and Canada 
Brussels,  
USA and Canada  
Meeting Report  
Meeting Orgalime – 06 10 2015 
Participants:  
ORGALIME: 

 and 

Commission : I. García Bercero, 






.  
• Commission debriefed ORGALIME on the status of negotiations, particularly
TBT and Engineering chapters and requested further input from ORGALIME on
their offensive interests: revision of the NRTL program and possible areas for
cooperation => ideally agreeing on common standards to be upgraded to
international standards afterwards.
• Commission noted the need to achieve a balanced outcome in this area and
highlighted importance of the single standard in the internal market.
• ORGALIME recalled interest on mutual recognition of test certificates for
components among NRTLs, but although they acknowledge the importance of the
issue, they cautioned against paying a high price for it. They also warned against
accepting conflicting standards in the internal market => Internal market is key in
the success of the EU engineering industry.
• Higher uptake of international standards in the US would be the ideal solution for
ORGALIME.
• ORGALIME suggested that maybe it is worth sounding other US Agencies apart
from OSHA, in particular EPA and FCC. However, with no specific suggestions
on possible areas for cooperation.

ORGALIME’s perception is that US has no appetite for regulatory cooperation
in the engineering sector => neither industry nor Agencies. They noted that
certification industry & standardisers have more weight in fixing US positions
than the manufacturing industry.
• According to ORGALIME cooperation on standardisation does not make sense if
not done together with Regulatory cooperation.
• Eventually, they agreed to continue looking for areas to be further investigated:
notably with NEMA and some sectors: agriculture and construction equipment.
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