product requirements documentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The TBT Agreement sets forth certain requirements for technical regulations, standards, and conformity assessment procedures. These terms are defined as follows: ? Technical regulations ? A document that lays down product characteristics or their related processes and production methods, with which compliance is mandatory; ? Standards ? A document for products or related processes and production methods, with which compliance is not mandatory; ? Conformity assessment procedures ? Any procedure used to determine whether relevant requirements in technical regulations or standards are fulfilled and to accredit conformity assessment bodies. To ensure that such technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment procedures do not act as unnecessary barriers to trade, the TBT Agreement directs Members to ensure that products imported from the territory of any other Member must be accorded both most-favoured-nation treatment and national treatment, and that international standards must be used as a basis for new technical regulations in principle.例文帳に追加

本協定は、①産品の特性又は関連の生産工程・生産方法（PPM：Processes and Production Methods）に関する遵守が法律等により国内的に義務づけられている基準（強制規格（Technical regulations））及び②産品又は関連の生産工程・生産方法に関する遵守が強制されていない基準（任意規格（Standards））並びに③適合性評価手続（Conformity assessment procedures；認証手続（ある産品が基準に適合しているかどうかを判断する手続）及び認証機関の認定手続）が貿易上の不必要な障害とならないように、標準化機関が基準及び適合性評価手続（以下「基準等」という。）を内国民待遇かつ最恵国待遇で外国産品に適用し、基準等を策定する際には国際規格をその基礎として用いることを規定している。 - 経済産業省