Russian Federation New Tender

By order of Rosstandart GOST R 59424-2021 Guidelines for remote analysis of the state of production and audit of management systems was approved .In 2020 the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic posed a massive challenge to all levels of the economy from global to corporate. This situation also affected the activities in the field of conformity assessment. In such an environment off-site audits using information and communication technologies have become practically the only way to continue functioning of certification schemes and programs to ensure uninterrupted supply to the market of products and services that meet both mandatory requirements and voluntary management system standards. It is imperative to provide standardized methods for conducting off-site audits using information and communications technology.International and national standards that establish rules in the field of conformity assessment provide for the possibility of using remote methods for conducting conformity assessment. The developed standard is fully based on the guidelines for auditing management systems and is a supplement to them. At the same time GOST R 59424-2021 takes into account the requirements set out in the documents of the International Accreditation Forum IAF as well as recommendations formulated by international groups on conformity assessment and certification schemes.Given the rapid digitalization of the economy and the geography of the Russian Federation the use of this standard creates new opportunities for transforming the methods of analyzing the state of production and assessing the conformity of management systems products services and other objects not only in the context of various global challenges but it should also be considered as a first step. towards the use of modern audit techniques in regular evaluations and audits in order to reduce costs and increase the economic efficiency of evaluating enterprises with a complex structure. The provisions of GOST R 59424-2021 apply both to the analysis of the state of production and to external and internal audits of management systems.The new standard was developed by the Certification Association Russian Register within the framework of the specialized technical committee for standardization No. 076 Management systems and is put into effect on September 1 2021.