Presentation

- To provide information requested by OMC members and other interested parties on standards, technical regulation and current national conformity evaluation procedures;
-To act as an interface with foreign information services;
- To publish a Moroccan standard-setting program each semester in order to provide information on current Moroccan standards being instituted.

The OTC/OMC service (working through SNIMA's Information Division) provides the following services:

A| Reference documents
Provides a reference document bibliography for requested documents, as well as information on how to attain them.

B| Document access
Provides requested documents (standards, technical regulation or conformity evaluation procedures). These documents can be accessed through:

-In-house viewing without being able to borrow documents (free service);

-Sale of Moroccan standards documents (fee-based);

-Copies of current national technical regulation documents (free service).

C| Transfer Service

Points the information requestor to the most appropriate source, in cases where the section in question does not provide complete information to a specific question.

In order to anticipate users' standards and SNIMA activity information needs, the service provides the users with a variety of printed and electronic publications and products, such as the Espace Qualite quarterly review, the Moroccan standards catalogue, the three-month standard=setting activities calendar and the SNIMA website.

Following the example of countries that have signed the Technical Trade Obstacle agreement, Morocco gives notice of technical regulation proposals, conformity evaluation procedures and bi- and multi-lateral agreements and other international trade documents, in compliance with articles 2.9, 5, 6 and 10.7 of this agreement.

In order to help Moroccan regulatory bodies fulfill their obligations to give notice of technical regulation proposals (articles 2.9 and 2.10), conformity evaluation proposals (articles 5.6 and 5.7) and bi- and multi-lateral agreements (article 10.7), SNIMA's information service issues the following notifications:
-Technical regulation or conformity evaluation proposals,

-Notifications of multi-lateral agreements on technical regulation or conformity evaluation.

In order to give national exporters a chance to view notifications presented accord to OMC articles and allow them to comment, SNIMA's information service will provide a monthly chart including all notifications established by the OMC secretary to all interested parties. This chart indicates the number of notifications, the members who are presenting them, the applicable title articles, the products under review, the goals and the comment deadline.