28/07/2017 (Agence Europe) – On Friday 28 July, the EU and Switzerland updated the agreement on mutual recognition (ARM) of conformity assessment, which should enable barriers to trade to be removed. Concluded as part of the 'bilateral agreements I', the ARM is based on equivalence between Swiss and EU legislation. Bringing it up to date enables market access in sectors where technical legislation has been revised in Switzerland and the EU, the Swiss mission to the EU states in a...