Guinea

5.1 - Notifications for enhanced controls or inspections

Articles 5.1 (a), (b), (c), (d)
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Indicative date of implementation 31 December 2023
Definitive date of implementation 22 February 2025
Assistance required for implementation • Legal and regulatory review to determine compliance with the provision.
• Analysing the business process: establishing roles and responsibilities for each structure and for all mechanisms used to carry out tasks, including the validity of confirmatory tests across the whole country and the process of notifying the component in the exporting country.
• Developing and validating a manual on standard operating procedures and making the manual available to the concerned institutions through a website with a view to clarifying their respective interventions.
• Training staff in the management of the formal notification system, including national and international best practices.
• Organizing focused seminars for economic operators.
• Building a globally accessible, instantaneous, ICT-based communication system linking the food safety authority, the National Agricultural Quarantine Inspection Authority and border posts (Ministries of Agriculture, Trade, Health, Livestock, Fisheries and the Environment, and customs authorities, etc.) that can be used to send notifications in the form of warnings and information alerts.
• Strengthening mechanisms for achieving the right to an appeal or review.
• Managing risk and developing quality metrology infrastructure and conformity assessment and test procedures.
• Capacity building with regard to standardization.
• Strengthening risk assessment bodies.
• Equipping the notification authority and the enquiry points with material information resources.

Tags: Information and communication technologies (ICT), Legislative and regulatory framework, Infrastructure and equipment, Human resources and training

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