CREATING CONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN THE SPHERE OF STANDARDIZATION

23-25 February of this year in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, was held Regional seminar on public and private dialogue, procedures on standardization and technical regulation in accordance with international requirements and best practices in the framework of GIZ program «Promoting regional trade in Central Asia».

The seminar was attended by representatives of national standards bodies, public organizations and technical committees for standardization of Central Asia countries. The Kazakh delegation was represented by representatives of RSE "Kazakhstan Institute of Standardization and Certification", as well as representatives of National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Republic Kazakhstan "Atameken" and the Technical Committee for Standardization № 53 "Certification of mechanical engineering, metallurgical and construction products and services" and Technical Committee for Standardization № 93 "Package and packaging."

Facilitators of this seminar were international experts from German Institute for Standardization (DIN) - Siglinde Kaiser, Alex Inklaar and Frank Schmidt, in conjunction with national coordinators of GIZ in Central Asia countries.

In the framework of seminar, participants were introduced to:

1) German Experience in formulation policies and strategies between government and standardization;

2) Role and place of national standards body, technical committees for standardization and technical experts of industry in the development and adoption of standards;

3) The benefits of standardization at the macro and micro - economic levels and etc.

In turn, experts have shared with their comments on situation in the sphere of standardization, which was obtained during the visit to the countries of Central Asia, and also they have given appropriate recommendations for improvement of public-private partnership, as well as for improvement of standards development procedures and the last recommendation was on the cooperation with technical committees for standardization.

The seminar has given an opportunity for participants to share experience on construction of dialogue between government and business community in their countries, as well as participation in development of proposals for formation of national roadmaps on the development of dialogue and procedures in the framework of public-private partnership in standardization, on the base of which international experts will develop regional roadmap on the development of public-private partnership in the future, including the context of each state.