TANZANIA Bureau of Standards (TBS) Director General, Dr Egid Mubofu, has stressed the need for National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) as key to industrialisation, regional and international trade.
“In the absence of trade of good quality products and services, economies cannot grow, therefore standardisation, metrology, accreditation and conformity assessment must be observed for an industrialisation agenda,” he said.
In his paper “The Role of Quality Infrastructure in Facilitating National Industrialisation and Trade,” Dr Mubofu said NQI is key in the provision of technical support to industrialisation as it guarantees conformity to standards and compliance to relevant legislation and regulations.
He told participants that the national quality infrastructure supports sustainable development by providing relevant technical support on safety and quality of all products and services offered and hence leading to product international recognition.
“The pillars of Quality Infrastructure (QI), encompasses elements of standardi sation, metrology (legal, scientific and industrial), accreditation and conformity assessment as building blocks and are cornerstone in the industrialisation agenda in order to enable sustainable development,” he said.
He added that the primary premise of modern industrialisation with quality industrial production and safety guarantee lies in the hands of conformity to standards, which cannot be achieved in the absence of a well-established quality infrastructure. The World Trade Organisation Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (WTO/TBT), among other issues, encourages the removal of TBT through bilateral and multilateral agreements on conformity assessment.
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