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Article 1 Purpose and means

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1.

The purpose of this Protocol is to facilitate the elimination by the Parties of technical barriers to trade in respect of certain industrial products, listed in the Annexes to this Protocol, which form an integral part of this Protocol.

2.

The purpose set out in paragraph 1 shall be met through:

(a)

the adoption and implementation by Israel of national technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment procedures which are equivalent to those of relevant EU law;

(b)

the implementation by Israel of a regulatory and technical infrastructure which is equivalent to that in place in the Member States of the EU;

(c)

the mutual acceptance on their markets by both Parties of industrial products which fulfil the requirements for being lawfully placed on the market in one of the Parties, including where appropriate the mutual recognition of the results of obligatory conformity assessment of industrial products subject to relevant EU law and to the equivalent Israeli national law;

(d)

the acceptance on their markets by both Parties of industrial products which fulfil the requirements for being lawfully placed on the market in Israel and any one of the Member States of the EU, on conditions analogous to those applying to trade in goods between the Member States of the EU.

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OJ L 147 of 21.6.2000, p. 3 and "Kitvei Amana" (Israel Official Publication Journal), 1034.