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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1989

FIRST

GROUP

FACTORIES ASSESSMENT OF THE MID-1990 AND ACCREDITATION OF A NUMBER OF THESE WAS THEREAFTER, NR LEUNG SAID.

WAS

TARGETTED

FOR

EXPECTED SHORTLY

FOR MANUFACTURERS

HE ADDED,

"WHERE NECESSARY, ARRANGEMENTS WILL BE MADE TO MAE ACCESS TO APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANCIES,

CONSIDERABLY AS THE HE SAID THE SCHEME WOULD EXPAND MESSAGE BECAME MORE CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD AND BETTER APPRECIATED.

WILL BE LISTED ACCREDITED COMPANIES

"FACTORIES WHICH HAVE BEEN ACCREDITED INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT DIRECTORY OF QUALITY

111 BE MADE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASING AGENCIES WORLDWIDE.

QUALITY

IN AN WHICH

TH

"ONCE THE

SCHEME

A TRACK RECORD, HAS ESTABLISHED

RECOGNITION WITH SIMILAR MUTUAL

THE

OVERSEAS

DEPARTMENT WILL SEEK ITS COUNTERPARTS," MR LEUNG SAID.

THE

PRODUCT SAFETY REQUIREMENTS" IS..." & THE SEMINAR ON "EEC 1992 ESIGNED TO EQUIP THE PARTICIPANTS WITH A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF PRODUCT SAFETY REQUIREMENTS OF THE EEC AND THEIR COMPLIANCE.

OF DEPARTMENT

TRADE

AND-

TWO EXPERTS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM INDUSTRY WERE INVITED TO SPEAK AT THE SEMINAR.

HK STANDS TO GAIN FROM NEW TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS

PACIFIC

ITS

GAIN A

HONG KONG, BECAUSE OF ITS SOPHISTICATED INFRASTRUCTURE AND

THE

REGION, STANDS TO PIVOTAL POSITION IN SIZEABLE CHUNK OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS IN THE NEXT DECADE,

MR ERNEST EVANS, SAID ASSISTANT

OF DIRECTOR THURSDAY).

ASIAN

INDUSTRY,

THE TODAY

GENERAL

SPEAKING AT

THE ANNUAL

IN THE

MEETING OF THE HONG KONG HE BELIEVED ASSOCIATION OF CERTIFICATION LABORATORIES, MR EVANS SAID

NEXT 10

YEARS WOULD BB EVEN THE ADVANCEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY GREATER THAN THAT WHICH WE HAD SEEN IN THE LAST 20 YEARS.

WITH THE UPSURGE OF NEW

TECHNOLOGY

BE EVEN GREATER CONSEQUENTLY THERE WOULD COMMUNITY SINCE NEW TECHNOLOGIES WOULD BRING NEW STANDARDS OF SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE.

CERTIFICATION, "QUALITY

IS WHICH

BUSINESS, MR EVANS SAID

DEMANDS

OUR ON

TESTING WITH THEM DEMANDS FOR

NOW PROPERLY EMERGING,

GLOBALLY, WILL BE A STANDARD REQUIREMENT IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

"IN THIS RESPECT WE ALREADY HAVE NUMBER OF YEARS AHEAD OF OUR COMPETITORS.

THE PREREQUISITES TO BE A

Fr

FUTURE IN A WORLD MR EVANS SAID.

"I HAVE THEREFORE EVERY CONFIDENCE IN OUR INCREASINGLY DRIVEN FORWARD BY NEW TECHNOLOGY,

/HAVING SAID