Regulator Considerations: Leveraging Opportunities through Regulatory Cooperation

This paper examines the opportunity that regulatory cooperation provides to rationalise the array of overlapping international regulatory systems going forward, and the role that trade agreements can play to facilitate this occurring, particularly with regard to lessons learned from the Canada-US regulatory cooperation effort. In so doing, the paper outlines the context for cooperation between regulators, the important role for stakeholders, the approach to regulatory cooperation planning, and potential trade agreement implications.

Tag: Regional Trade Agreements, Regulatory Systems Coherence, TBT/SPS