Protection against unreliable measurement results

The protection of constitutional rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of individuals and legal entities is the task of state control and supervision.

The field of metrology is included in the sphere of activity of business entities in which control is carried out.

The Department of the Committee for Technical Regulation and Metrology of the Ministry of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Karaganda region is an authorized body in the field of ensuring the uniformity of measurements, whose competence includes the organization and conduct of state metrological control.

One of the main goals of ensuring the uniformity of measurements is to protect the interests of individuals and legal entities of the Republic of Kazakhstan from unreliable measurement results.

Since July 1, 2021, the Law on Ensuring the Uniformity of Measurements has been amended in terms of state metrological control, the purpose of which is to verify compliance by individuals and legal entities with the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on ensuring the uniformity of measurements.

The objects of state metrological control were the number of products alienated during trade operations and the number of packaged products in packages of any kind during its sale.

State metrological control over objects is carried out in the form of unscheduled inspection and preventive control in accordance with the Business Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Law on Ensuring the Uniformity of Measurements.

In 2021, the Department carried out state metrological control in the form of preventive control with visits in nine subjects, in all cases the use of measuring instruments with expired verification period was established and in 2 cases not included in the register of the state system for ensuring the uniformity of measurements.

According to the results of preventive control with a visit to the subject (object) of control, orders were issued to eliminate violations.

In accordance with this Law, preventive control is provided without visiting the subject of control, the purpose of which is the timely suppression and prevention of violations, granting the subject of control the right to independently eliminate violations identified by the results of preventive control without visiting the subject of control.

Based on the results of preventive control without visiting the subject of control, a recommendation is made to eliminate the detected violations without initiating an administrative offense case with a mandatory explanation to the subject of control of the method of eliminating violations, thereby reducing the administrative burden on the subject of control.