The Chairman of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce Mr. Uriel Lyn has strongly criticized the Government for not having carried out two previous Government decisions and a decision taken by the Court of Justice to embark upon a policy of opening up the standard approvals sector to competition.
Mr. Lyn emphasized that the suggestion adopted by the present Government to allow the Israel Standard Institute (ISI) to continue enjoying a monopoly power for all standard approvals is in full contradiction with previous decisions adopted as well as in contradiction with the present anti-monopoly policy adopted by the Government as part of a the overall plan to re-structure the economy and wipe out the inefficiencies of monopolies.
Lyn added that the Israeli Standard Institute has become the almost only non tariff barrier in existence in the Israeli market thus hindering the opening up of the Israeli market to outside competition.
According to Mr. Lyn the Standard Institute unfairly discriminate foreign made products, requesting importers to pay excessive amount of money for the approval and apply discriminative examination processes which make the costs prohibitive.
In his address to the Government Mr. Lyn noted that two months ago the Court of Justice asked the Government to explain the reasons behind it’s policy not to amend the import regulations to allow private laboratories to approve standards, in addition to the ISI.
The opening up of the sector to competition will, according to Mr. Lyn, have a dramatic effect on the costs of imports and will benefit the consumer.
Mr. Lyn emphasized that the suggestion adopted by the present Government to allow the Israel Standard Institute (ISI) to continue enjoying a monopoly power for all standard approvals is in full contradiction with previous decisions adopted as well as in contradiction with the present anti-monopoly policy adopted by the Government as part of a the overall plan to re-structure the economy and wipe out the inefficiencies of monopolies.
Lyn added that the Israeli Standard Institute has become the almost only non tariff barrier in existence in the Israeli market thus hindering the opening up of the Israeli market to outside competition.
According to Mr. Lyn the Standard Institute unfairly discriminate foreign made products, requesting importers to pay excessive amount of money for the approval and apply discriminative examination processes which make the costs prohibitive.
In his address to the Government Mr. Lyn noted that two months ago the Court of Justice asked the Government to explain the reasons behind it’s policy not to amend the import regulations to allow private laboratories to approve standards, in addition to the ISI.
The opening up of the sector to competition will, according to Mr. Lyn, have a dramatic effect on the costs of imports and will benefit the consumer.
