On Commonwealth issues in accreditation

With the participation of the Director General of the National Accreditation Center of the Committee for Technical Regulation and Metrology of the Ministry of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan Talgat Momyshev, the 18th meeting of the Council of Heads of Accreditation Bodies of the member States of the Eurasian Economic Union was held with the presence of representatives of Kazakhstan, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia.  The meeting discussed the implementation of mutual comparative assessments by the accreditation bodies of the EAEU member states, on finalizing the Procedure for forming and maintaining a unified register of issued protocols of research (tests) and measurements of the EAEU and others.

Regarding the implementation of mutual comparative assessments by the accreditation bodies of the EAEU states, the Council has now approved the procedure for passing such assessments, and the first of them has already been appointed in the Kyrgyz Republic. The head of the Department of Accreditation of Certification Bodies of NCA Anar Esenzhulova is represented in the group on mutual comparative assessment of the Kyrgyz Accreditation Center. During the meeting, she noted that it is appropriate to conduct mutual comparative assessments in the EAEU in a remote format that has proven itself well on a global scale. At the same time, according to preliminary results, the Council noted the high level of competence of the personnel who developed the management system documents provided by the Kyrgyz Accreditation Body.

The issue of creating a unified register of test reports has already been considered twice at meetings of the Council of Heads of Accreditation Bodies of the EAEU member States. The purpose of creating a unified register is to ensure the safety of products put into circulation on the common market of the Union, in particular, by ensuring the availability and transparency of information on test reports.

Within the framework of the 18th meeting, the position of the accreditation bodies was formed on the need for the information in the unified register to comply with the requirements of the technical regulations of the EAEU, on the phased introduction of the issued research protocols into the register, which will ensure timely and proper monitoring of compliance with mandatory requirements by accredited testing laboratories.