EEC assigns high priority to setting up regional agency for combating grey certificates in EEU – minister

<p> MINSK, Jun 29 - PrimePress. The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) considers it important to establish a regional organization to combat grey certificates in the markets of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member states, EEC Minister in Charge of Technical Regulation Viktor Nazarenko said on June 26 at the fourth meeting of the council of heads of the EEU accreditation bodies. </p> <p>   </p> <p> “It is important to the EEU to establish a regional accreditation agency that would be able to admit partners in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) alongside EEU member states following mutual comparative assessments by accreditation bodies of the EEU members in 2021,” Nazarenko said. </p> <p>   </p> <p> He said that even amid the coronavirus pandemic, some bodies engaged in conformity assessment issue a huge number of certificates to foreign producers, and law enforcement turn a blind eye to this. </p> <p>   </p> <p> “We consider counteraction to ungrounded issue or registration of certificates of compliance with technical regulations to be of paramount importance,” Nazarenko said. Proposals for improvement will be considered in the second half of 2020. </p> <p>   </p> <p> The EEC also plans to expedite the adoption of a unified procedure for mutual comparative assessments to augment national accreditation systems and achieve equivalence of procedures applied by the member states. End </p>

2020-06-30

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