Uzbek President sign law “On conformity assessment”
05/10/2013 18:16
Uzbek President sign law “On conformity assessment”
05/10/2013 18:16
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov signed a law “On conformity assessment” on 4 October 2013.
The Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan passed the law on 6 June 2013 and the Senate approved it on 22 August 2013. The document will come into force after six months.
The law is directed at further improving legislation in the field of certification and standardization of products (works, service), ensuring safety, quality and competitiveness of products, as well as harmonizing national legislation in line with international standards.
The law was developed to create legislative base of the conformity assessment system, including from movement from single approach – certification - to various forms of conformity assessment – declaration of conformity.
The document also creates legislative, technical and organization foundation for National accreditation system. The law will ensure execution of requirements of the agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in connection with preparation of Uzbekistan to accession to the international organization.
The law is aimed at improving the safety, quality and competitiveness of domestic products (services) and processes, as well as protecting domestic market from dangerous goods, removing technical barriers at international trade, and increasing technical competence and international recognition of the results of testing, calibration and testing laboratories, certification bodies, inspection and other conformity assessment bodies.
Conformity assessment can be carried out through accreditation, certification, declaration of conformity, surveillance, and pre-shipment (or) the discharge inspection, product testing, sanitary-and-epidemiological, veterinary, phyto-sanitary expertise or environmental review.
The objects of conformity assessment are products, services, production processes, management systems, legal entities, applying for accreditation, etc.
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