effect amendment on the standards ACT to allow the creation of the standards tribunal to probe complaints over noncompliance regarding products standards - Uganda Multimedia News & Information https://www.weinformers.com Politics, Health, Sceince, Business, Agriculture, Culture, Tourism, Women, Men, Oil, Sports Thu, 08 Sep 2016 09:54:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 UNBS wants MPs to effect amendment on the standards ACT to create tribunal https://www.weinformers.com/2016/09/08/unbs-wants-mps-to-effect-amendment-on-the-standards-act-to-create-tribunal/ https://www.weinformers.com/2016/09/08/unbs-wants-mps-to-effect-amendment-on-the-standards-act-to-create-tribunal/#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2016 09:31:22 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=46891 The Uganda National Bureau of standards (UNBS) is pleading with parliament to effect amendment on the standards ACT to allow the creation of the standards tribunal to probe complaints over noncompliance regarding products standards. The deputy executive director UNBS ,David Livingstone Ebiru told the parliamentary committee on Trade, Tourism and Industry presided over by Mawokota […]

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]]> The Uganda National Bureau of standards (UNBS) is pleading with parliament to effect amendment on the standards ACT to allow the creation of the standards tribunal to probe complaints over noncompliance regarding products standards.
The deputy executive director UNBS ,David Livingstone Ebiru told the parliamentary committee on Trade, Tourism and Industry presided over by Mawokota South MP, John Bosco Lubyayi that there many complaints over substandard products on market but few are dealt with ,since UNBS has no tribunal to investigate such cases conclusively .

Ebiru also agreed with MPs that most of UNBS services are basically centralized in Kampala, adding that they are revising ways of being felt in most the areas in the country.

Woman Member of Parliament for Kampala district Nabilah Nagayi Sempala.

Woman Member of Parliament for Kampala district Nabilah Nagayi Sempala.

The Woman MP for Kampala district Nabilah Naggayi Sempala also pins UNBS for conniving with some companies and allow substandard products on market.

Stella Kiiza, Woman MP for Kyegegwa district, says that the  doubling of the UNBS budget as requested would be approved by parliament only when it has put in place measures that eliminates fake products from the Ugandan market .

The Uganda National Bureau of standards needs its budget increased from 14 billion shillings to about 30 billion shillings.

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