National Quality Policy headed for Cabinet

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A final draft of the National Quality Policy (NQP), a framework that will guide the establishment and improvement of the national quality infrastructure, is complete and awaiting feedback from government ministries before it goes to Cabinet for approval.

The project, which started in March this year, was awarded to a Mauritius-based company, International Economics, under the coordination of international experts, Martin Kellermann, Patrick Reposeur, Clementine Chikomba and Alicja Stec-Nipcon.

The policy addresses issues of national quality infrastructure and the technical regulation regime as well as covered capacity building of local operators and exporters within the SME’s bracket.

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