The webinar series ‘Embracing global markets’ supports European small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups to innovate and expand in Asia, Africa and the Americas. The webinars are hosted by experts of various European Commission services and the 'Enterprise Europe Network', the world's largest business service provider. This webinar will focus on Mutual Recognition Agreements.

Who should attend?

The webinar aims at European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), start-ups (ready to scale internationally), beneficiaries or holders of seals of excellence of the European Innovation Council, European clusters and cluster managers, business advisers of the Enterprise Europe Network and other European business support organisations, including all stakeholders of the ‘Friends of EEN’ initiative.

Learning objectives

Mutual Recognition Agreements are instruments that facilitate market access by reducing costs and time associated with mandatory product certification and testing as they provide for the mutual recognition between trading partners of mandatory test results and certificates for certain manufactured products.

This makes trade quicker, easier and cheaper, while maintaining a high level of safety.

The webinar will present the opportunities provided by these agreements for EU exporters of goods to US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel, Switzerland.