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17.10.2022 (Обновлено: 25.10.2022 10:53)

EAEU improves conformity assessment system

The Eurasian Economic Commission’s Council approved a list of measures to optimize the Eurasian Economic Union’s mandatory requirements to products, including in terms of its mandatory conformity assessment. This list includes six measures aimed at creating mechanisms to prevent unfair receipt of conformity assessment documents and to improve the EAEU conformity assessment system.

Measures to optimize the Eurasian Economic Union’s mandatory requirements to products, including in terms of its mandatory conformity assessment, include developing proposals to clarify the concept of "batch of products" for conformity assessment purposes, including based on the products put into circulation; creating mechanisms to prevent unfair receipt of conformity assessment documents; developing proposals to improve the forms, schemes and procedures for assessing conformity with the Union's technical regulation requirements for certain types of products; creating a unified register on the basis of national registers of research (testing) and measurement protocols as part of efforts on assessing conformity with the Union's technical regulation requirements; preparing proposals to improve the Union’s law in terms of implementing the conformity assessment based on risk analysis; and developing measures to improve approaches to product identification and make a connection between identification characteristics, hazards and requirements to products.