Standards, Quality: Parliamentarians Examine Impact On Economy

An information and sensitisation workshop took place yesterday November 16, 2016 at the National Assembly.

That Cameroon’s Small and Medium-Size enterprises are yet to reap much from the vast investment projects on going in the country because of their non compliance with standards and quality as revealed by the Minister of Mines, Industries and Technological Development, Ernest Gwaboubou, justifies the holding of an information and sensitisation workshop for Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday November 16, in the National Assembly.

Organised by the Parliamentary Network for the Promotion of Investments and Partnership Agreements (REPICOP), members of the National Assembly, Senate, consumer organisation and experts converged on the House Chamber where they were debriefed on the “Central role of standards and quality in an emerging Cameroon Economy.” The President of REPICOP, Hon. Emmanuel Banmi Dingha, underscored the importance of standards and quality in not only ensuring the competitiveness of made-in Cameroon products, but also the wellbeing of consumers.

He said the problem was no longer on the entering into force of the Economic Partnership Agreement with European Union, which opens up Cameroon to the market of about 510 million consumers, but rather the standard and quality challenges linked to it. “We must make sure that our system of standardisation meets international exigencies so as not to eliminate Cameroonian pr...