The Sunday Mail
The Consignment Based Conformity Assessment (CBCA) programme is being implemented under Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2015. This scheme is a Trade Facilitation programme enabling a more efficient “Ease of Doing Business” Please find below Tips and support to better trade for the country.
What is the CBCA programme all about – Principles and objectives
The primary objective of the programme is to make sure that only quality compliant goods are imported into Zimbabwe by conducting inspection, testing and certification of selected products in the country of export thereby preventing sub-standard and counterfeited products from entering the Zimbabwe market.
More and more governments are using the Consignment Based Conformity Assessment (CBCA) scheme to ensure safety and protection of their population and in parallel secure and foster more fair competition for their national manufacturers while protecting them against sub-standard and counterfeit products.
The Government of Zimbabwe has decided to move forward with that import scheme.
The International Standards that shall be used include ISO, IEC, CODEX and UNECE standards. Only critical and targeted products are under the scope of this programme.
Objectives
Ensure consumer protection by checking conformity compliance of consumer goods to International Standards.
Secure procurement process for importers, with positive impact on their cash-flow as they will only pay when exporter is able to provide certificate of conformity thereby mitigating risk.
Reduce significantly the cost of destruction of incoming substandard products at the border for both traders and the Government.
Protect the local industry against sub-standard imports ruining local labour and national production.
For more details, please visit the ministry’s website (www.mic.gov.zw) and for further enquires forward an email to [email protected] or visit www.verigates.com.
Requests for certificates may also be sent to [email protected]
