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Viktor Nazarenko Minister for Technical Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission spoke about the main directions for the development of a unified system of technical regulation of the Eurasian Economic Union at the International Forum Actual Issues of Technical Regulation and Standardization in the EAEU held on March 13 in Moscow as part of the Russian Business Week.According to the EEC Minister the main goals and priorities of its development are clearly defined in the field of technical regulation of the EAEU. Key goals include removing technical barriers to trade protecting the domestic market from unsafe products and improving the quality and competitiveness of products.In terms of removing technical barriers in mutual trade the EAEU member states have come a long way. At the same time significant intensification of work is required in this direction.The absence at the level of the Union of uniform mandatory requirements for certain types of products is recognized by the bodies of the Union as a restriction that impedes the free movement of goods on the internal market of the EAEU. Overcoming this limitation within the framework of the development of a unified system of technical regulation should not go out of the scope of attention of the authorized bodies of the Member States of the Union - said Victor Nazarenko. However in terms of the development of technical regulations and changes to them there have been trends to disrupt the deadlines for the implementation of relevant developments there are attempts to return to the national regulation of certain types of products at the level of individual states of the Union.Special attention of the Minister was drawn to the lack of proper coordination in a number of Member States when developing the countrys position insufficient executive discipline of the authorized bodies of the Union countries responsible for the development of technical regulations and amendments to them.The Minister emphasized that in order to maintain a high level of requirements of technical regulations and lists of standards it is necessary to fully introduce a mechanism for assessing the scientific and technical level of technical regulations and lists of standards to them in the EAEU. This will also allow at the system level to go to the revision of existing and the development of new interstate standards GOST.The EEC Minister paid special attention to the decisive participation of industry in all standardization processes. At the same time in order to reach a high level of requirements it is also necessary to complete another no less important task - to assess the practice of applying technical regulations and standards their demand and assess their actual impact on business. It is here that the position of industry and business is important for us the minister said. The implementation of programs for the development of standards for technical regulations should be accelerated. The completion of the developments included in the standardization programs for 45 technical regulations of the Union on only 58 of topics cannot be considered satisfactory. The role of the states of the Union in matters of financing standardization should also be reviewed.Victor Nazarenko touched upon conformity assessment and accreditation as a hot and discussed topic noting that against the background of numerous conscientious conformity assessment bodies a number of certification bodies and testing laboratories in conjunction with unscrupulous authorized persons of the manufacturer have formed virtually unprecedented conditions for obtaining the relevant documents when delivering foreign products.The situation is aggravated by individual decisions to simplify conformity assessment procedures taken in the Member States of the Union as well as the actual elimination of a number of state supervision control bodies from performing their functions of market protection.Out of 28 state supervision bodies only 4-5 bodies have an objective assessment of the level of product safety on the market the minister said commenting on the results of the work of one of these bodies in 2022 presented to the forum participants.Therefore today it is especially relevant to improve the system of state supervision in the Member States of the Union without the effective functioning of which consumers cannot be protected from unsafe products and the union industry is in unequal competitive conditions.Turning to the subject of standardization and ensuring the unity of changes Viktor Nazarenko noted that the effective implementation of any investment innovation or cooperation project is impossible without the development of modern interstate standards the development of measurement and testing capabilities and urged businesses to pay close attention to standardization and ensuring the unity of measurements as key areas without which it is impossible to improve the quality and competitiveness of products.The EEC Minister also dwelled on the implementation of the Strategic Directions of Eurasian Integration until 2025 including the project on digital technical regulation within the EAEU and the forthcoming discussion with industry and business of the concept of creating a Eurasian Product Quality Assurance System.Concluding his speech Viktor Nazarenko called on business representatives and authorized bodies of the Member States to review approaches to the implementation of the main elements of technical regulation taking into account the current economic situation and the need to solve urgent problems of integration in this area.
