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Cotecna is a leading provider of testing, inspection, and certification services. We offer solutions to facilitate trade and make supply chains safer and more efficient for our clients.
Cotecna provides testing, inspection and certification services across a range of industries, including agriculture, food, minerals and metals, government and trade, and consumer goods.
Cotecna is a leading provider of testing, inspection and certification services. We offer solutions to facilitate trade and make supply chain safer and more efficient for our clients.
Cotecna is authorised by AGANOR (Agence Gabonaise de Normalisation) to issue a Certificate of Conformity for exports of regulated products to Gabon.
Update on Gabon PROGEC Programme: Following the Decision no. 034.2020 communicated by AGANOR, the end of the transitional period has now been postponed to June 30.2021. Cotecna provides guidance throughout the transition phase to make sure exporters to Gabon are ready on time for the 1st of July 2021.
Cotecna is authorised by the Gabonese Standard Agency AGANOR (Agence Gabonaise de Normalisation) to support the Gabonese Conformity Assessment Programme PROGEC (Programme Gabonais d’évaluation de la Conformité) and verify the conformity to applicable standards of all regulated products imported into Gabon.
Cotecna’s mandate consists in performing documentary verifications, inspections (when applicable) in order to issue Certificates of Conformity (COC) for goods complying with applicable standards (Gabonese, Regional and International standards). The objective of this programme is to better protect consumers from substandard, counterfeit and potentially dangerous goods.
In the absence of a valid COC at Customs, concerned products will be refused and the importer exposed to the relevant sanctions as proscribed by the Law.
Please note that the minimum FOB value of a shipment needing to be certified remains at 3000 euros and will change to 1000 euros as of 1st July 2021.
Cotecna’s mandate includes the physical inspection, sampling and testing of goods in fully ISO 17025 accredited laboratories. Factory audits may also be carried out to ensure production is compliant with standards.
To assess the conformity of a shipment, the Verification of Conformity process will follow one of the three following ways of compliance called “Routes”, depending on the profile of the exporter:
To learn more about our verification of conformity programmes, or to request a Certificate of Conformity (COC) for your shipment, please download our VOC contact list mentioned above.
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