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Legal and Regulatory Framework

Assistance under this category includes helping countries to bring their own regulations into conformity with international rules, more general help to improve their legal institutions, and training officials to deal with such rules. A number of the agencies specialise in par­ticular areas, rather than trying to provide expertise on the legal rules in all sectors. For several, the aim is to balance trade-related obli­gations with other national (or international) interests.

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Summary of activities included in this category
Strengthening food and medicines regulatory institutions - Cape Verde
Institutional Strengthening of Banco de Cabo Verde - Phase 2
Institutional and Technical Strengthening of Mozambique’s National Institute of Standardization and Quality (INNOQ) - Trilateral Cooperation with Brazil, Germany and Mozambique

Compliance support infrastructure and services

Assistance in this category is closely related to that under the Legal and Regulatory Framework, but places more emphasis on building the institutions in developing countries to implement such legal frameworks, and less on the details of compliance. It is an area where the specialised agencies again have the main role

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Summary of activities included in this category
Institutional and Technical Strengthening of Mozambique’s National Institute of Standardization and Quality (INNOQ)