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The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (the TBT Agreement) contains several provisions related to transparency. For example, it stipulates that Members shall notify their draft technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures and allow a reasonable time to make comments on them. It also provides that Members shall publish their TBT measures.It contains obligations related to the establishment and operation of TBT Enquiry Points.Also,standardizing bodies have to notify their acceptance of the Code of Good Practice. Over the years, the TBT Committee has adopted several reccomendations to improve the implementation of transparency provisions.

The TBT Information Management System (TBT IMS) is a "one-stop" system to allow users to track and obtain information on TBT measuresthat Member governments have notified to the WTO, on Member governments' enquiry points, on standardizing bodies having accepted the Code of Good Practiceon publications used to provide information on technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment procedures a and on statements on implementation and administration of the TBT Agreement under Article 15.2.

It will also allow users to track and perform searches on specific trade concerns raised in the TBT Committee.