"About requirements to means of maintenance of fire safety and fire fighting»

The Department Of the Committee of technical regulation and Metrology for the Almaty region informs that from January 1, 2020, the technical regulation of the Eurasian economic Union "on requirements for fire safety and fire extinguishing means" (TR EEU 043/2017) came into force.

The regulation applies to fire safety and fire extinguishing equipment designed to prevent, reduce the risk of fire, limit the development of fire and the spread of its dangerous factors, to extinguish fire, save people, protect life and (or) human health, property and the environment from fire, as well as to reduce the risk of harm and damage due to fire.

Documents under national legislation are no longer processed.

Meanwhile, according to the transitional provisions, if there are documents on conformity assessment issued before the entry into force of the technical regulations of the EEU, it is allowed to manufacture and put into circulation products in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan within 18 months from the date of entry into force of the regulations.

If prior to the entry into force of technical regulations of the EEU, according to the legislation of RK products are not subject to mandatory conformity assessment within 12 months of the date of the technical regulations allowed the production and release into circulation the products without documents mandatory assessment of conformity of products and no sign of products on the market.

The Annex to the technical regulations specifies a list of products that are subject to the requirements of the technical regulations and conformity assessment schemes.

In the technical regulations, 104 items of products subject to mandatory conformity assessment, grouped under the following 19 sections:

extinguishing media flame retardants, molded electrical products, fire extinguishers, extinguishing devices Autonomous fire hose cabinets fire hydrants, mobile fire-extinguishing means, means functioning in the systems of fire automatics, technical means functioning as a part of automatic fire extinguishing systems, fire extinguishing robotic, means of individual protection of respiratory organs and sight firefighters special fire protective clothing, personal protective equipment of hands, feet and head fire, means of rescue of people in case of fire from high-rise levels, tools for carrying out special work on fires, additional equipment for firefighters, fire equipment, fire-fighting Windows and doors, technical means functioning as part of smoke ventilation systems.

Before being put into circulation in the territories of the member States, fire safety and fire extinguishing equipment are subject to conformity assessment.

Conformity assessment is carried out in the form of certification or Declaration of conformity.