Standards in regulatory systems

Russian practice

Evgeny Petrosyan

Dialog goals

Product market enhancement

Fulfillment of international obligations

Standardization extension aimed at cooperation enlargement

Main items of the dialog agenda

Fulfillment of TBT WTO obligations

Approximation of regulatory system

Implementation of good practices and sustainable development support

Self regulation without standards

Standards as a convergence road

Do bilateral and regional approaches for reducing technical barriers ti trade converge towards the multilateral trading system? OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No.58 by

Caroline Lesser (TAD/TC/WP(2007)/12/FINAL)

Regulation portfolio of an economic operator

From: Risk management in Regulatory Framework. Towards a better management of risks by Lorenza Jachia and Valentin Nikonov. UNECE,

ECE/TRADE/390, 2012

Fields of standards:

- requirements

- practices

- conformity

- methods

- management

The main inputs to regulatory system

From: Risk management in Regulatory Framework. Towards a better management of risks by Lorenza Jachia and Valentin Nikonov. UNECE,

ECE/TRADE/390, 2012

WTO, APEC, OECD

(GMP, GLP, BAT, OTD ISO 9000, ISO 13485, ISO 14000, ISO 21500, ISO 22000, ISO 26000,

ISO 31000)

Law 184 “On technical regulation”

Harmonization

Standard’s interfaces

Scope – Areas for standards

Standards

Areas of standardization

Area for industrial and technological standards Area for

prospective items

Area for standards

Scientific and technical level

Consensus level

Level of knowledge in countries

Dynamic of Russian standards development

Russian standards for national technical regulations and technical regulation of Custom Union

Dynamic of Russian TC

Belarus

Ukraine

Azerbaijan

Turkmenstan

Tajikistan

Kirghizia

Kazakhstan

Russia

Uzbekistan

Moldova

Armenia

Progress in development of interstate standards

Supporting the TBT Agreement with Good Regulatory Practices Implementation Options for APEC Members by Scott Jacobs, March 2012 (The report was prepared for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

organization as part of the APEC Technical Assistance and Training Facility (TATF) program.

General principle of information retrieval on General principle of information retrieval on

the basis of modelthe basis of model

Assessment of equivalence between technical regulations and standards of different countries

STEPS:

- Architecture (structure)

- OTD (ISO 22745) about 100.000 terms and definitions

- Creation of templates

- Requirements for data quality (ISO 8000)

- Standards for data collection

- Open software availability

- Joint efforts to collect data

- Practical assessment

Architecture of building the national technical regulation and conformity assessment systems

International trade and economic organizations – WTO, UN, OECD, WHO

International agreements in various economic and technical sectors

- Schemes of certification of the IEC -The Brussels Convention, - Kioto Protocol - ICAO, MAGATE, IAEA

Regional organizations and Customs unions

Custom Union, CIS (NIS), APEC, PASC

National technical regulation, standardization and conformity assessment systems

(GOST, GOST R)

International agreements Applicability of the international protocols, treaties, conventions and agreements in the technical regulation area

National membership in the international organizations on standardization or conformity assessment Applicability of the international conformity assessment systems for this type of products Use of the international classifications and terms

Regional agreements in the technical regulation area Regional TR and standardization systems Bilateral or multilateral mutual recognition in the field of technical regulations or conformity assessment Membership in the regional organizations on standardization and conformity assessment

Arrangement and structure of the technical regulation system (mechanism) applied in the country National requirements to products and related processes Used forms and schemes (procedures) for conformity assessment

These are all “Planes”

Need for semantic coding

Domestic appliancesDomestic appliances

-FDA - ASTM--Hygiene

ECCFR USENPBDEs -

EC

Waste

management

NOM (ANSI

ASHR

AE),

CFR

US

KSK (ISO,

EN)

EPACT – ANSI EN (IEC meas)MEPS

(EISA

US,

ARI,

ASHRA

E)

Energy efficiency

-

consumption

and

labelling

-CISPRCGR US - CISPREN (IEC)CSA-SISPR

(IEC)

EMC

NOM --CFR US -2006/95/EC- EN

(ICNIPR)

CSAEMF

NOM-NMX

(IEC

60335)

IEC 60335CFR US -EN (IEC 60335)CSA (UL)Safety:

electrical

and

mechanical

MexicoKoreaUnited StatesEUCanadaRegulatory

objectives

Structure of most common requirements for domestic appliances

Thank you for your attention

Do bilateral and regional approaches for reducing technical barriers ti trade converge towards the multilateral trading system? OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No.58 by

Caroline Lesser (TAD/TC/WP(2007)/12/FINAL)