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The TCA has a specific chapter on Technical barriers to trade (TBT) (Chapter 4). Concerning conformity assessment, both the EU and UK agreed to accept a supplier’s declaration of conformity as proof of compliance with its technical regulations for those product areas where their respective legislation on the date of entry into force of the TCA foresees the use of first-party conformity assessment. Where a Party requires third party conformity assessment as a positive assurance that a product conforms to a technical regulation, it shall use accreditation, as appropriate, as a means to demonstrate technical competence to qualify conformity assessment bodies (Article 93 TBT of the TCA). In this regard, the EU and the UK recognise the valuable role that accreditation operated with authority derived from government and on a non-commercial basis can play in the qualification of conformity assessment bodies. The TCA also calls on both parties to use relevant international standards for accreditation and conformity assessment, and to use relevant international standards as a basis for the standards they develop.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.