Ministry of Commerce to launch the first-ever National Compliance Centre (NCC) to facilitate the exporters, helping them promote their business, besides improving export opportunities.
Hailing the federal commerce minister Naveed Qamar and Commerce Secretary Sualeh Ahmad Faruqi to open the NCC, he said that it is a right step in the right direction, as it was one of the major demands of the exporters to provide them such facility under a one window solution with the sole objective of ensuring international compliance requirements and facilitate the exporters and certification agencies through information sharing and capacity building.
The NCC would have a federal-level office with provincial secretariats to ensure coordination at the national level.
It will have an organizational structure consisting of eight compliance clusters, and additional clusters may be established in the future as needed.
The NCC will act as a repository of all international compliance requirements and develop a user-friendly online database and other resources to assist businesses, industries, agricultural producers, public and private sector stakeholders, and other entities to understand and comply with international regulatory requirements. NCC would focus on those areas of compliance which the industry presently needs, including quality assurance standards, sustainability, traceability for textiles, e-Commerce, competition, human rights, labor rights, etc.
NCC will assist small and medium-sized enterprises in developing business strategies for the adoption of international compliance requirements and facilitate access to international certifying bodies for them.
