The 17th meeting of the Council of Heads of Accreditation Bodies of the EAEU Member States was held

Heads of accreditation bodies of Kazakhstan, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Russia discussed seven issues on the agenda via videoconference.

During the meeting, the work plan of the Council of Heads of Accreditation Bodies of the EAEU member States for 2023 was agreed and approved, the composition of the expert group on mutual comparative assessment of the Kyrgyz Accreditation Center under the Ministry of Economy and Commerce of the Kyrgyz Republic and the head of this group represented by a representative of the Belarusian State Accreditation Center was agreed, a decision was made to conduct the first mutual comparative evaluation in the second half of 2023.

Speaking at the meeting, Acting Director General of the National Accreditation Center Nurlan Shokbarbayev noted that currently there are a number of topical issues in the field of interaction between conformity assessment bodies and testing laboratories of the EAEU. One of them is the presence of the laboratory certification body in one country, and the laboratory in another, and made a proposal to apply the principle of residency in such cases, so that the certification bodies and laboratories are located in the same state. Also N. Shokbarbayev spoke about the experience of interaction of the National Accreditation Center with the customs system, when all products entering Kazakhstan undergo the procedure of checking certificates and declarations of conformity at the border.

The Council participants decided to hold Round tables of the accreditation bodies of the EAEU member states: in the first half of 2023 – on digitalization, in the second half – on inspection bodies.

The meeting also discussed the issues of activating the activities of accreditation bodies of the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union in terms of prompt and effective measures against unreasonably issued conformity assessment documents, on finalizing the draft Procedure for informing the parties about the results of complaints about the activities of accredited conformity assessment bodies included in the Unified Register of Conformity Assessment Bodies The Eurasian Economic Union and others.