Conformity Assessment

9. Each Party shall ensure that its conformity assessment procedures are non-discriminatory and expeditious in respect of their treatment of goods and shall endeavour to ensure such non-discriminatory and expeditious treatment towards persons, services and investments of all other Parties. In the event that non-conformity with a standard is established, each Party shall identify in writing in what respect a particular person, good, service or investment failed to conform with the applicable standard.

10. Where the criteria used for accreditation of conformity assessment bodies are equivalent, a Party shall recognize the conformity assessment bodies located in the territory of another Party on

terms no less favourable than those it affords to its own conformity assessment bodies or those of any other Party.

11. Where differing conformity assessment procedures produce equivalent results, a Party shall accept the certification of another Party that a satisfactory conformity assessment procedure has been completed.

12. Each Party shall avoid repeating a conformity assessment procedure already performed by a conformity assessment body located in the territory of any other Party and shall, to the extent practicable, use conformity assessment bodies accredited under Canada's National Standards System.