"Standardization" - as a tool for the development of economic sectors

Today, on January 29, 2020, on the basis of "electric Locomotive kurastyru zauyty" LLP, a meeting was held on increasing the level of localization of railway production.
The meeting was attended and made a presentation the Chairman of the Committee for technical regulation and Metrology of the Ministry of trade and integration of Kazakhstan Arman Sakaliev, which familiarized the participants with the current situation in the sphere of technical regulation and measures to support domestic producers.
According to the Chairman of the Committee, in accordance with the Treaty on the EEU, the EEU platform provides freedom of movement of goods, services, capital and labor.
The unified system of technical regulation ensures the free movement of goods within the EEU. This is achieved through the establishment of mandatory requirements to products through common technical regulations.
Today, 48 technical regulations have been adopted at the level of the EEU, regulating about 85 % of all products sold, of which 43 have entered into force.
On the territory of the EAEU, 3 technical regulations of the Customs Union have been adopted for railway transport .
In his speech, A. Shakkaliev noted that one of the tools for the development of economic sectors is "standardization" as a non-tariff measure for regulating trade relations.
The mechanism for supporting domestic producers, but in a narrower segment of purchases, both state and quasi-state, is the approval of procurement standards.
As part of the procurement is to be used, the standards establish common technical requirements, technical specifications and product requirements.