📋 Tender Overview
It is known that one of the main tasks of any state is to protect the domestic market from products that do not meet the requirements of regulatory documents in the field of quality and safety of technical regulation.At the same time one of the important elements of adaptation to the world economic system which allows to eliminate technical barriers to trade is technical regulation. The system of technical regulation is aimed at increasing the competitiveness of national products modernization of industry ensuring the safety of products and their production processes protecting the foreign economic interests of the state. The removal of technical barriers is one of the key conditions for ensuring freedom of movement of goods within the framework of harmonized associations in the common economic space which is very important for todays Uzbekistan. Institutional frameworkOver the past five years with the support of the government the institutional framework for a technical regulatory system has been established in Uzbekistan. Founded in 2017 the Uzbek National Metrology Institute is now recognized by international organizations such as BIPM International Organization COOMET Eurasian Organization APMP Pacific Organization ILAC International Organization for Accreditation. In addition the development of the material and technical base 2.1 times the growth of standards the creation of 10 new calibration laboratories the adoption of a new version of the Law On Metrology the recruitment of 4 international experts and the training of 35 new calibration specialists. The foundations of a new metrological infrastructure have been created. In the last two years more than 14000 standards have been harmonized with international standards in the last two years at the Standardization Institute which was established in 2018 and 5.3 thousand obsolete standards have been repealed. Also the Accreditation Center of Uzbekistan which has been operating since 2019 has been accredited for a short period of time - the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies. To date 64 international standards have been adopted in the Accreditation System in Uzbekistan and 32 qualified specialists have been trained. 82 basic documents have been developed with the involvement of international experts. This allowed the national accreditation body to fully function in the international community. Technical regulations and standardsTo date product quality and safety have been set on the basis of standards. At the same time ensuring that uniform requirements for product safety are established is becoming increasingly important to international organizations as the process of harmonization intensifies. Until 2009 the system of standardization was in force in our country. In this regard the work carried out at this stage of the reform to improve the regulatory framework of the technical regulation system based on product safety control is of particular importance. Over the past five years 36 technical regulations have been developed on the basis of international norms and standards bringing the total number to 53. With the adoption of technical regulations about 2000 standards have been transferred to the voluntary nature and quality control of these types of products is implemented by the needs of buyers through the manufacturing and trade industries. Another 27 draft technical regulations for adoption this year have been developed on the basis of international documents European Union Eurasian Economic Union and submitted for public discussion. Testing laboratories and management systemsIt has not been long since a national infrastructure for certification and testing has been established. Today there are 51 private certification bodies and 268 testing laboratories in the country. In order to create conditions for the export of domestic products to foreign markets 12 testing laboratories are internationally accredited. Certification bodies of 9 management systems which have offices in the Republic of Uzbekistan operate in the framework of international cooperation. These include SGS Switzerland TUV Germany Control Union Netherlands RINA DQS Quality Systems Italy EuroCert Greece Astraia Manajment Sert Manegement Slovakia and Russian Register Russia. Three management systems certification bodies of our country have successfully passed international accreditation Management Certification Central Asia Certification Cert International. It should be noted with satisfaction that the internationally accredited Uzbek company Cert International is conducting certification of management systems in Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan and Russia. All current standards related to management systems ISO 9001 14000 22000 45001 Global GAP Sedex BSCI GOTS have been adopted in Uzbekistan and are being implemented by business entities. As a result 10000 enterprises have introduced management systems based on process control over the entire production chain. 305 of them have food safety standards 229 farms have certificates of compliance with Global GAP and Organic standards and 63 enterprises have certificates of compliance with Sedex BSCI Oeko-Tex-100 GOTS standards used in the textile industry. In order to create favorable conditions for business entities taking into account international experience in the country the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation OECD certifies the certification of raw materials production materials and other products imported from 37 countries.
