More Trade News in Brief – Week 23 (3 – 10 June 2013)

 

* EU: Latvia is Ready to Adopt Euro

 

The European Commission concludes that Latvia has achieved the economical level convergence with the euro area and proposes that the Council decide on Latvia’s adoption of the euro as from 1 January 2014.

 

The European Central Bank (ECB) Convergence Report 2013 on Latvia can be found following the link.

 

Please check here and here.

 

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* WTO – The Final Lap of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Accession

 

The bilateral negotiations for the Bosnia and Herzegovina’s World Trade Organization (WTO) membership are expected to complete by the 9th Ministerial Conference in December 2013.

 

Follow the link for more.

 

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* ISO: Consumer Product Safety – Guidelines for Suppliers

 

ISO published a guideline on how to assess and manage risk to supply safe products to the consumer: ISO 10377:2013, Consumer product safety – Guidelines for suppliers.

Kindly check the new standard here.

 

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