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EEC worked out temporary measures to optimize procedures for assessing conformity of products to EAEU technical regulations' requirements
The list of measures to improve economic stability of the EAEU countries includes measures to optimize technical regulation. They concern changing effective dates of new mandatory requirements for products being introduced within the Union, extending transitional provisions, updating current product requirements and conformity assessment procedures.
Nowadays, based on the sides’ proposals, decisions have already been adopted to postpone enactment of the Technical Regulation "On requirements for energy efficiency of power-consuming devices" to September 1, 2025 (the effective date has been postponed for three years), as well as to amend the Technical Regulation "On safety of wheeled vehicles" in terms of establishing requirements for vehicles released into circulation in accordance with national statutes.
In order to optimize individual procedures for assessing the conformity of products to the requirements of the Union’s technical regulations, the Commission has worked out temporary measures to optimize the procedures for assessing the conformity of products to the requirements of the Union’s technical regulations.
They simplify the procedures for certifying and declaring the conformity of both serial products and batches. The document pays due regard to the law enforcement practice of temporary measures applied in light of COVID-19, as well as complies with the Union’s law.
"Some Union countries adopt decisions in the field of technical regulation, which in some cases fail to comply with the EAEU law. In order to avoid this, the Commission worked out prompt temporary measures to optimize individual procedures for assessing the conformity of products to the requirements of the Union’s technical regulations", noted Viktor Nazarenko, EEC Minister in charge of Technical Regulation.
The consultation attendees arrived at a consensus on the need to monitor in the Union countries the issuance of conformity assessment documents for products using temporary measures, as well as strengthen state control (supervision) over such product conformity. The amended draft of temporary measures will be submitted to the Board and the Commission’s Council for consideration in a prompt manner.
The attendees discussed implementing the Strategic Directions for Developing the Eurasian Economic Integration until 2025 in the field of technical regulation.
"The plan for implementing the Strategic Directions includes 39 measures providing insight and specifying 22 mechanisms for developing the technical regulation sphere”, noted Viktor Nazarenko, EEC Minister. “In 2022, 16 measures from this plan should be implemented, including making amendments to the Treaty on the EAEU, approving paradigm-shifting acts of the Union's governing bodies and making amendments to the existing ones".
When discussing new approaches to assessing the product conformity, the heads of the Union countries’ authorized authorities expressed an opinion on the need to create a unified register of persons authorized by manufacturers. Clear criteria for inclusion on the register will be developed and approved. The register will be one of the important mechanisms in the package of measures to protect the Union’s common market from unsafe products. According to Valentin Tataritsky, Chairman of the State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus, maintaining this register will ensure the most accurate identification of both persons authorized by manufacturers and manufacturers, including foreign ones.
The attendees gave particular attention to creating a system of reference laboratories in the Union States. During the discussion, the authorized authorities expressed a unified position on the need to adopt a recommendation establishing single approaches to their creation as well as to consider the document at a meeting of the Commission’s Board. The recommendation is a methodology document providing a legal basis for creating the system of reference laboratories in the Member States.
It was proposed to set up base organizations for technical regulation in the countries as centers which can support implementing technical regulations and assess their scientific and technical level. The possibility of forming a register of such organizations was considered.
The proposal to adopt the EEC Board’s recommendations on coordinating activities in the field of standardization within the Union was unanimously supported. The document systematizes interaction between national standardization bodies, including planning and developing interstate standards and improving the efficiency of such work. The sides agreed to reflect in the draft document the issues of coordinating efforts to develop uniform procedures for testing products.
Due to the importance of measures to support implementing the Union’s technical regulations, it was proposed to explore the possibility of financing the work, on a par with countries, on assessing the scientific and technical level of technical regulations and related standards. According to Anton Shalaev, Head of Rosstandart, creating a single financing facility for developing the EAEU standards would contribute to timely provision of standards to meet uniform requirements of technical regulations.
A list of measures to improve economic stability of the Eurasian Economic Union Member States, including to ensure macroeconomic stability, was approved by Disposition No. 12 of the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Council dated March 17, 2022.
