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About ARSO

The African Organisation for Standardisation (ARSO) is Africas inter-governmental standards body formed by OAU (currently AU) and UNECA in 1977 in Accra Ghana.

Mandate of ARSO

The fundamental mandate of ARSO is to develop tools for standards development, standards harmonization, and implementation of these systems to enhance Africa’s internal trading capacity, increase Africa’s product and service competitiveness globally, uplift the welfare of African consumers, and serve as a standardization forum for future prospects in international trade referencing.

While increased trade and closer economic cooperation between developing countries represent a considerable potential for development, realizing this potential represents a major challenge, especially in terms of an effective continental standardization infrastructure. This forms the basis for ARSO Strategic Direction as summarized in its Vision, Mission, and Goals. In carrying out its mandate, ARSO seeks to:

Harmonize national and/or sub-regional standards as African Standards and issue necessary recommendations to member bodies for this purpose.
Initiate and coordinate the development of African Standards (ARS) with references to products which are of peculiar interest to Africa.
Encourage and facilitate adoption of international standards by member bodies.
Promote and facilitate exchange of experts and information and cooperation in the training of personnel in standardization activities.
Coordinate the views of its members at ISO, IEC, OIML, Codex, and other international organizations concerned with standardization activities.
Create appropriate bodies in addition to the organs of the organization for the purposes of fulfilling its objectives.

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The Council consisting of the President and representatives of twelve Member Bodies administers in accordance with the policy laid down by the organization the activities of the Organisation reports on the activities of the Organization to the Member Bodies each year and to the General Assembly at each of its sessions.