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NEWS IN BRIEF


Statement emphasizes the value of international standards to UK global trade


The integral role of international standards in the UK’s global trading ambitions has been endorsed in a statement signed by 28 key stakeholders representing UK businesses, consumers, professional institutions, standards users and others. The 28 organizations were brought together by BSI earlier this year at a roundtable to consider the part international standards will play in delivering a world leading trade policy as the UK recasts its role on the global stage after leaving the EU. The participants in the roundtable subsequently agreed a joint statement called ‘The strategic value of international standards for the UK as a global trading nation’.


The statement stressed that international


standards help to create a common language for British business and their trading partners, deliver confi dence in products and services for UK consumers and enable regulatory compliance. BSI has sent the document to


government departments to reinforce their understanding of the central role the UK plays in international standards development. In the statement, stakeholders recommend that government:


● Makes full use of the strategic national value of the UK’s role in the international standards system


● Ensures that UK standards stakeholders


BSI guidelines to protect workers in the workplace published


are consulted in the development of trade policy and trade deals


● Involves BSI, as the national standards body, when considering technical barriers to trade policy and trade deals.


BSI is maintaining the stakeholder


group to provide input and advice when considering regulatory and trade policy issues. This will help inform BSI’s evolving role as the UK’s national standards body


following the UK’s exit from the EU. Jeremy Gray, BSI’s National Policy


Manager commented, “UK leadership in the international standards system has never been more important with the UK currently negotiating multiple trade agreements. Experts from the UK shape the conditions of market access globally and this infl uence boosts the competitive advantage of UK businesses while forming a pillar of UK soft power more broadly.” Read the statement.


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