Law-ref.org Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe - Final Act - Helsinki 1975
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3. Provisions concerning trade and industrial co-operation

Harmonization of standards

The participating States,
Recognizing the development of international harmonization of standards and technical regulations and of international co- operation in the field of certification as an important means of eliminating technical obstacles to international trade and industrial co-operation, thereby facilitating their development and increasing productivity,
reaffirm their interest to achieve the widest possible international harmonization of standards and technical regulations;
express their readiness to promote international agreements and other appropriate arrangements on acceptance of certificates of conformity with standards and technical regulations;
consider it desirable to increase international co-operation on standardization, in particular by supporting the activities of intergovernmental and other appropriate organizations in this field.