The goal of the project was to support the implementation of Good Regulatory Practices (GRP) in the Cosmetics Sector among the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA) members to enhance freer flow of goods and services across member economies while ensuring the safety, health and protection of the consumers. This project consisted of:
- preparing an exhaustive research report documenting current regulatory practices among AANZFTA as well as in other countries and Free Trade Agreement to review models of best options with a view to diminish the occurrence of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) arising from inconsistent delivery of regulation, and
- organizing a regional workshop providing opportunity for sectoral regulators on cosmetics, cosmetics industry representatives AANZFTA members to discuss their regulatory objective and regulatory implementation based on the desk-based research report and its recommendations to diminish the occurrence of TBTs arising from inconsistent delivery of regulation.
JC&A provided the following outputs:
- Output 1: Inception report, detailing the approaches and methodologies as well as workplan to carry out the activities;
- Output 2: Research Report, which would include (a) review best practices models on GRP in general and also in cosmetics sectors; (b) comparison of GRP models and its regulatory implementation at general level and also specific for cosmetics sectors, with a view to diminish the occurrence of TBTs arising from inconsistent delivery of regulation; (c) recommendations related to strategies on improving implementation of regulation; (See report here: https://aanzfta.asean.org/uploads/2022/01/Desk%20Research%20on%20Good%20Regulatory%20Practice%20in%20the%20Cosmetics%20Industry.pdf)
- Output 3: Workshop report, highlighting output of discussions and recommendations related to (1) strengthening methodology for GRP application to cosmetics sector; (2) promote a mutual understanding of each Party’s standards and conformance infrastructure and regulatory implementation in the cosmetic sector; (3) strengthen information exchange, transparency, integration and collaboration among Parties in relation to standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures and regulatory implementation within the cosmetic sector; and (4) supporting mechanisms applicable to the cosmetic sector to realise the objectives of the AANZFTA Agreement;
- Output 4: Agenda, materials for the regional workshop.
ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area, AANZFTA Secretariat, 2001
