State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus

Legal Acts Law «On technical normalization and standardization» dated 5 January 2004 Law «On assessment of the conformity to the requirements of technical normative legal acts in the field of technical normalization and standardization» dated 5 January 2004

Legal Acts Laws of the Republic of Belarus «On assurance of measurements uniformity» «On protection of customers rights» «On quality and safety of food raw material and foodstuffs for human life and health» «On trade» «Code of the Republic of Belarus on administrative violations»

Legal Acts Government Regulations «On approval of the Provision on the order of performance of the State surveillance over observance of the requirements of technical regulations and Provision on the order of performance of the State metrological surveillance» «Provision on the State committee for standardization of the Republic of Belarus» «On certain issues of the markets activity» «On approval of the Rules of performing retail trade of certain types of goods and catering» «Provision on interaction of republican bodies of public administration and law enforcement bodies in the field of intellectual property protection»

Structure of State surveillance bodies State committee for standardization of the Republic of Belarus (Gosstandart) Regional : Municipal: BelGIM (Minsk) Baranovichi CSMC Brest CSMC Borissov CSMC Vitebsk CSMC Bobruisk CSMC Gomel CSMC Kalinkovichi CSMC Grodno CSMC Lida CSMC Moguliev CSMC Molodechno CSMC Orsha CSMC Polotsk CSMC Pinsk CSMC Slutsk CSMC Department for control and surveillance over construction Department for energy saving

6 State surveillance for observance of technical regulations, standards

System of control and surveilance bodies Gosstandart Ministry of labour and social protection State customs committee Ministry of agriculture and food Ministry for emergency situations Ministry of health Committee of State Control Ministry for taxes and tallages

Objectives of governmental surveillance Prevention of violations of the requirements of technical regulations, standards, agreed obligations and documental statements on the products (services) quality Prevention of violations of the rules of the mandatory conformity confirmation Prevention of violations of the metrological norms

Governmental surveillance is planning taking into account: Priority trends for governmental surveillance specified by Gosstandart; Coordination republican plan, approved by Coordination Board for control activity in the Republic; unscheduled tasks, carried out by the Government initiative on the initiative of law machinery and controlling units on complaints of customers.

- with societies for consumer’s rights protection - with customs bodies; - with bodies of the Ministry of Health; - with bodies of the Ministry of agriculture and food; - with taxation bodies; - with bodies of the State surveillance committee; - with labour inspection; - With certification bodies; and other law enforcement bodies. Interaction of State surveillance bodies

In carrying out of acceptance tests of new type products; In issuing resolutions on readiness for products manufacturing; In production assessment with the purposes of license issuing; State surveillance bodies take parts:

Ответственность за нарушения требований стандартов Responsibility of economy entities Administrative fines Administrative fines Operative sanctions Operative sanctions (selling prohibitions, Prescriptions to withdraw products from sonsumers) Sanctions civil law Employee personal responsibility Employee personal responsibility Criminal Administrative Disciplinary Material

Notification of dangerous products 1. Automated system «ASU-state surveillance» (acts in the republic) 2. Telecommunication system «Dangerous products» (within CIS-countries) 3. Information exchange between surveillance bodies on dangerous products

ЕВРАЗИЙСКИЙ СОВЕТ ПО СТАНДАРТИЗАЦИИ, МЕТРОЛОГИИ И СЕРТИФИКАЦИИ (ЕАСС) EURO-AZIAN COUNCIL FOR STANDARDIZATION, METROLOGI AND CERTIFICATION (EASC) PMG Rules for intergovernmental standardization Order of state surveillance bodies interaction for observance of technical regulations INTERGOVERNMENTAL COUNCIL FOR STANDARDIZATION, METROLOGY AND CERTIFICATION

3869 During the 9 months of 2007 there have been carried out 3869 examinations of the subjects of entrepreneurship activity and about products names were checked/ Allocation of examinations as per the main life cycles of products or rendered services (in units): 15 Summary of the state standards surveillance

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