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Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)

Technical Testing, Analysis and Product Testing Services

Liberalisation Measures under CEPA

The Agreement on Trade in Services covers and consolidates commitments relating to liberalisation of trade in services provided in CEPA and its Supplements and also the Agreement between the Mainland and Hong Kong on Achieving Basic Liberalisation of Trade in Services in Guangdong.

Agreement on Trade in Services
Liberalisation Measures under Cross-border Services (Positive List)
Sectors or sub-sectors
  • 1. Business services
    • F. Other business services
      • e. Technical testing and analysis services (CPC8676) and Product testing services (CPC749)
Specific commitments
  1. To allow testing organisations in Hong Kong to cooperate with designated Mainland organisations to undertake testing of products for the China Compulsory Certification (CCC) System on all products that require CCC. These testing organisations have to be accredited by the accreditation body of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to be competent of performing testing of the relevant products under the CCC System. Cooperation arrangements should comply with relevant requirements in the Regulations on Certification and Accreditation of the People's Republic of China.
  2. To allow certification bodies in Hong Kong to cooperate with Mainland CCC certification bodies on CCC factory inspection through assigning inspectors to carry out such inspection of factories manufacturing CCC products in the whole Mainland. These certification bodies have to be accredited by the accreditation body of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to be competent of performing certification of relevant products under the CCC System.
  3. To allow certification bodies in Hong Kong to cooperate with Mainland CCC certification bodies to select post-certification test samples at factories manufacturing CCC products in the whole Mainland. These certification bodies have to be accredited by the accreditation body of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to be competent of performing certification of relevant products under the CCC System.
  4. In the area of voluntary certification, to allow testing organisations in Hong Kong to cooperate with Mainland certification bodies to undertake testing of products manufactured or processed in Hong Kong or the Mainland. These testing organisations have to be accredited by the accreditation body of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to be competent in performing testing of relevant products.
  5. To implement, on a pilot basis, a mutual recognition arrangement of certification and relevant testing business among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in the China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone, with a view to carrying out "certified once, tested once, and results accepted by three places".
  6. On the basis of mutual trust and mutual benefit, to allow testing and certification organisations in Hong Kong to cooperate with Mainland testing and certification organisations in respect of acceptance of testing data (results). Specific cooperation arrangements are subject to further discussion.
  7. To allow contractual service providers employed by Hong Kong service suppliers, in the mode of movement of natural persons, to provide services under this sector or sub-sector in the Mainland.
Reserved Restrictive Measures under Commercial Presence (Negative List)
Sector
 
Sub-sector
  • 1. Business services
     
    • F. Other Business Services
      • e. Technical testing and analysis services (CPC8676)
Obligations concerned National Treatment
Reserved Restrictive
Measures		 Commercial Presence
Not to provide inspection services for Mainland-registered vessels.
   
Sector
 
Sub-sector
  • 11. Transport Services
     
    • H. Services auxiliary to all modes of transport
      • d. Other (CPC749)
Obligations concerned National Treatment
Reserved Restrictive
Measures		 Commercial Presence
Apply national treatment.

For details about quality supervision, inspection and quarantine under the Agreement on Economic and Technical Cooperation (Ecotech Agreement), please refer to the Ecotech Agreement.