Cooperation

Rwanda Standards Board participates in regional and international standardization activities by taking part into standards setting and standards harmonization at regional and international levels. Participating into regional and international standardization activities has significant advantages to Rwanda, such as: 

• Representing Rwanda into regional and international standardization activities

• Removing barriers to regional and international trade

• Influencing regional and international standards development process

• Creating regional and international pathways and markets

• Avoiding the waste of resource or “reinventing the wheel”

• Improving doing business

• Transferring and acquiring state-of-the-art technological know-how

• Safeguarding public health and safety by establishing a base of requirements for application to local or imported products in regulated areas

Regional cooperation

At regional level, Rwanda Standards Board has cooperation with the following organizations:

• EAC: the East African Community (http://www.eac-quality.net/)

• COMESA: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (http://www.comesa.int/)

• ARSO: African Organization for Standardization (http://www.arso-oran.org/)

• AFSEC: The African Electrotechnical Standardization Commission (http://www.afsec-africa.org/)

• SADC: Southern African Development Community (http://www.sadc.int/)

• Northern Corridor (http://www.nciprojects.org/)

 International cooperation

At international level, Rwanda Standards Board has cooperation with the following organizations:

• ISO: International Organization for Standardization (http://www.iso.org)

• IEC: International Electro-technical Commission (http://www.iec.ch)

• IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (https://www.ieee.org)

• CODEX: CODEX Alimentarius International Food Standards (http://www.codexalimentarius.org)

• WTO: World Trade Organization (https://www.wto.org)

• ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials (http://www.astm.org)

• ITU: International Telecommunication Union (http://www.itu.int/)

• AOAC International: the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (www.aoac.org/)

• OIML- International Organization of Legal Metrology (https://www.oiml.org/en)

National Standards Bodies

Rwanda Standards Board has entered into cooperation with other national standards bodies (NSBs)

• UNBS-Uganda National Bureau of Standards (www.unbs.go.ug)

• KEBS-Kenya Bureau of Standards (www.kebs.org)

• BBN- Burundi Bureau of Standards (bbn-burundi.org)

• TBS- Tanzania Bureau of Standards (www.tbs.go.tz)

• SABS-South Africa Bureau of Standards (https://www.sabs.co.za)

• BIS-Bureau of Indian Standards (www.bis.org.in)

• SIS-Swedish Standards Institute (www.sis.se/en)

• BSI- British Standards Institution (www.bsigroup.com)

• PTB- National Metrology Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany (http://www.ptb.de/cms/en.html)

• DIN- German institute for standardization (www.din.de/en)

• KATS-Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (http://www.kats.go.kr/en)