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18 November 2011

ASEAN pursues regional regulatory dialogue

As reported in the international press (example Thailand), on 17 November 2011, ASEAN held its 19th ASEAN Summit in Bali, Indonesia, followed by a meeting with the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ABAC). Key issues discussed at the Summit were ASEAN Community building by 2015 (see the Blueprint), the role of ASEAN in the global community and other regional and international issues of mutual interest.
At the end of the Summit, ASEAN Leaders signed a Bali Declaration on the ASEAN Community in the global community of nations and witnessed diverse technical agreements.
Regulatory reform remains high on the agenda to achieve regional integration, and is most visible in the third pillar, which calls for streamlining standards and technical barriers to trade including systems of standards, quality assurance, accreditation and measurement. Leaders called for the institutionalisation of the High-level Task Force on Regulatory Reform, whose first meeting was held in Jakarta on Aug. 3, 2011 (as reported on this blog.) For more on this event, see an article in Jakarta Post.

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