Russian National Standards - Obligatory Certification

Obligatory Certification

It is only federal state structure who can create the obligatory certification system of Russia. The system must go through the procedure of state registration. The Rosstandart which is responsible for the certification in Russia as a whole keeps a registry of the RF certification systems. Only after receiving the Certificate of state registration with getting the unique registration number, you may perform activities in evaluating conformity as a new system.

There are 16 obligatory certification systems in Russia:

• GOST R;
• Means of protection of information according to requirements of informational security;
• “Electrocommunication”;
• Geodesic, cartographic and topographic production;
• On the federal Railway transport;
• Means of protection of information;
• Security of manufacturing of explosives;
• In the sphere of fire security;
• Means of protection of information according to requirements of security;
• Marine civil vessels;
• On the air transport of the RF;
• Air techniques and the objects of civil aviation;
• Space craft;
• For nuclear sets, the points of storing radioactive materials;
• Means of protecting the information that include the state secret;
• Immune biological preparations.

The obligatory GOST R certification system consists of sub-systems of certificating homogeneous products. The obligatory GOST R certification system consists of 40 sub-systems according to the kinds of homogeneous production. For example the following sub-systems:

• Medical certification;
• The system of certification oil products;
• The system of certification of dishes;
• The system of certification of electrical equipment (SCE);
• The system of certification of mechanic transport means and trailers;
• The system of certification of gases;
• The “SEPROCHIM” certification system (rubber, asbestos) and many others.

The management of state property in the sphere of technical regulation, organizing an performing works in certification in the GOST R system is performed by the Rostechregulation (former Gosstandart) which appears to be the Federal agency for technical regulation and metrology (now is called Rosstandart). The given agency is part of he structure of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the RF.

It became the very first and the largest system of evaluation of conformity in Russia and it encompasses all the groups of production that are to be evaluated according to the Federal Law “About protection of Consumers Rights” and it performs the other legislative acts considering separate kinds of goods The authority of the GOST R obligatory certification systems covers also the voluntary GOST R certification system because the applicants for the voluntary evaluation of conformity most often apply this very system.