Russian National Standards - Voluntary Certification

Voluntary Certification

Any Russian citizen may register such evaluation system according to the Law. While creating the system you must set the list of objects to be evaluated on conformity in its frameworks, the indicators and characteristics in accordance to which the voluntary certification will be performed, you must also formulate the rules of system and the pay order of the works in certification, and you must define the participants of the given system of evaluation of conformity.

Registration of voluntary certification system is similar to the procedure of registration of the obligatory system. In the case of refusal, the Rosstandart sends to the applicant explanations of reasons why the new system may not be registered. Nowadays there are more than 130 central certification organs that went through the registration procedure.

Here are the examples of voluntary certification:

• Construction materials “Rosstroisertificazia”;
• Personnel and housing services – “Roszhilkommunsertifikazia”;
• Means of cryptographic protection of information;
• The production of the Gosstandart of Russia;
• Production and the quality systems defense industries – “Oboronsertifika”;
• Certification of food “HAASP”;
• Coal production;
• Jewelry (several systems in the given sphere with different names;
• Bio active materials – “BOSTI”;
• Services in the sphere of advertising;
• Evaluation of intellectual property objects;
• Information technologies – “SSIT”.