SMIIC Technical Committee 1 - "Halal Food Issues" (TC1) has produced with hard work and great efforts, a new standard.

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased our dependence on the digital world, disrupted normal operation, increased confidence in business security and continuity, expanded the use of remote tools, supporting important business operations and providing services while continuing to serve customers. This underlines the need to pay more attention to the cyber threats caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Today, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact not only on manufacturing, but also on tourism. To prevent these negative consequences, the Spanish Standardization Association (UNE), a full member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), has developed a national guide to boosting tourism.

In this online training, experts from the Ministry of Agriculture, Uzstandard Agency, Textile and germent industry Association, cotton and textile clusters, agronomists and farmers learned about the organic cotton system, main requirements for organic cotton growing, organic cotton standards, certification processes and procedures, at the same time they improved their skills and exchanged experiences with international and local experts.

On June 23 current year, the draft law “On Standardization” was considered at a regular meeting in the form of a videoconference with experts from the World Trade Center (ITC, Geneva).

Uzbekistan has recently been paying serious attention to the export of agricultural, textile and construction products to the European Union.

Despite the global pandemic, cooperation between Uzstandard agency and international organizations is strengthening.

On the eve of World Metrology Day, on May 19, 2020, was held a videoconferencall (VCC) of Uzbek National institute metrology (UzNIM) management and specialists with World Bank experts.

From the first day the coronavirus infection was detected in Uzbekistan, the government took immediate measures to prevent the spread of the disease, and the Republican Special Commission for the Control of Coronavirus began its work. As a result of timely measures taken against the coronavirus epidemic in the country, many regions were saved from this threat.

On May 20 of this year, the Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Latvia and the Uzstandard agency held videoconference with the participation of representatives of GLOBAL G.A.P and local farms.