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The sixth annual meeting of the Indo-German Working Group on Quality Infrastructure took place on 17 and 18 January 2019 in Berlin. Germany and India founded the working group in 2013 to strengthen their economic and technical cooperation, reduce technical barriers to trade and increase product safety.

Das Staatliche Zentralamt für Marktregulierung (SAMR) sowie die Zollverwaltung (GACC) haben am 30. Oktober eine gemeinsame Erklärung herausgegeben, in der eine enge Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Behörden bei Rückrufprozessen für defekte Importgüter angekündigt wird.

The question how to strengthen market surveillance is of rising importance in India. In June 2018, the Indian government released the Indian National Strategy for Standardization, which includes the goal to establish an effective market surveillance system. Against this background, the Global Project Quality Infrastructure organised a workshop on market surveillance in New Delhi on 4 December.

On 5 December, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), the Indian Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and the Indian Ministry of Labour and Employment came together in New Delhi to launch the publication Making Safe Machines a Standard in India.

Die Unterarbeitsgruppe (UAG) Industrie 4.0 der Deutsch-Chinesischen Kommission zur Zusammenarbeit in der Normung ist am 21. und 22. November in Peking zu ihrem siebten Treffen zusammengekommen.

Within the framework of the event “quality connects”, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and the Indian Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution came together in New Delhi on 4 December. The focus of the event was the launch of an overview publication of India’s quality infrastructure landscape.

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