About the place and role of accreditation in the quality infrastructure
On the occasion of World Quality Day and World Accreditation Day, the National Accreditation Center hosted the forum «Accreditation: Supporting the Future of World Trade».
This slogan was chosen as the leitmotif of the activities of accreditation bodies in 2023 worldwide by the international accreditation organizations IAF and ILAC.
NAC Deputy Director General Nurlan Shokbarbayev introduced the forum participants and addressed them with a greeting, in which he noted that supporting trade through trust and removing trade barriers is the fundamental task of all quality institutions, and the purpose of this forum is to discuss the opportunities and resources available to the quality system of Kazakhstan in solving these tasks.
Then the floor was given to the Chairman of the Committee on Consumer Protection of the Ministry of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askar Tynysbekov, who spoke about the upcoming amendments to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan «On Consumer Protection» and related legislation, He noted that technical regulation and its tools: accreditation, standardization, certification, metrology are reliable ways to protect against substandard and unsafe products.
The representative of the management of JSC «QazTrade» Nurlan Kulbatyrov said that last year the company held seven major trade and economic forums with the participation of more than 120 Kazakhstani exporting companies.
According to the speaker, the main condition for access of Kazakh products to foreign markets is the availability of internationally recognized certificates from accredited companies, which are not easy to obtain, but there is no other way to successfully trade for export.
Deputy Head of the Center for Strategic Development and Analysis of RSE «KazStandart» Bolat Abayuly focused on the role of standards in the development of international trade, opportunities for export promotion through technical regulation tools and the crucial importance of standards for the smooth sale of manufactured products.
The head of the project «German-Kazakh agrarian-political dialogue» Alexander Barnevitz showed how the accreditation system works in Germany, and how the progressive experience of the German quality system is broadcast to Kazakhstani organic producers, auditors, employees of the certification and accreditation system.
Aizhan Naurzgaliyeva, President of the Association of Sugar, Food and Processing Industries, shared her vision of the development of certification in the direction of good agricultural practice GLOBAL G.A.P., mandatory for goods supplied to the EU market, spoke about the work under the auspices of the Committee for Technical Regulation and Metrology of the Republic of Kazakhstan MTI RK on the creation of an adapted version of the GLOBAL G.A.P. standard for Kazakhstan agricultural producers.
Nurlan Shokbarbayev thanked all the forum participants and wished them success in their work.
Following the results of the forum, a resolution was adopted in which the intentions of the forum participants were recorded to strengthen the interaction of government agencies and the business community to reduce technical barriers to trade and protect the domestic market; actively promote the introduction and development of modern methods and approaches in the field of conformity assessment, taking into account internationally recognized practices; concentrate efforts in the implementation of consumer protection measures; strengthen the role of technical standardization committees that bring together specialists from all stakeholders by industry; to build the capacity of quality infrastructure experts, taking into account international experience, including in new areas in the field of conformity assessment.