General Director of the National Center for Accreditation was appointed

Minister of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Bakhyt Sultanov introduced Rinat Bautov to the staff of the Committee for Technical Regulation and Metrology and “National Center for Accreditation” LLP, appointed Director General of the National Center for Accreditation.

Introducing the new leader to the team, the minister noted that accreditation in the field of assessment plays an important role in all sectors of the economy and is one of the priority areas. And therefore, the task facing the NCA team is to further improve the laboratory base of conformity assessment bodies and testing laboratories, develop new directions and, most importantly, digitize the accreditation processes.

Rinat Bautov has been working in the technical regulation system for over 17 years. In the system of technical regulation, he began working in 2003 as the head of the legal service of the Republican State Enterprise "Kazakhstan Institute of Standardization and Certification". 

Over the years, he worked as head of the department for the development of technical regulation and metrology of the Department for the Development of Entrepreneurship in the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan, head of the department for international cooperation and legal work, head of the department for technical regulation of the Committee for Technical Regulation and Metrology of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan, director of the Representative Office in Almaty of the National Center for Accreditation, in the private sector led companies in the field of pharmacy and construction.