MTI of the Republic of Kazakhstan makes an order with unsafe goods

Since the establishment of the Ministry of trade and integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the activity has been strengthened to ensure the improvement of the quality of goods in the domestic market. For this purpose, comprehensive work is being carried out to restore order in the field of product certification in order to identify "unfair" companies that provide certification and testing services.

As a result, presently, 1009 conformity assessment documents issued by the certification bodies of the EAEU countries have been cancelled, thereby prohibiting the import of dangerous products worth more than 1 billion tenges.

In addition, for the first half of 2020, 62 entities were covered by verifications, of which 35 were completed with negative results. In addition, according to the results of joint verifications with other state bodies, 94 entities were checked, of which 43 were completed with negative results. As a result, penalties were issued in the amount of more than 37 million tenges.

Also, as part of monitoring the activities of accreditation entities from June 2019 to June 2020, the accreditation certificates of 97 conformity assessment bodies (accreditation entities) were withdrawn.

On the recommendation of the General Prosecutor's Office, monitoring of the activities of accreditation entities have been strengthened, according to judicial acts and resolutions 7 accreditation certificates have been suspended, and 54 accreditation entities’ contracts have been terminated.

In addition, in order to ensure control over the safety and quality of products and services on the market, the Ministry has taken the following systematic measures:

- the Mazhilis of the Republic of Kazakhstan introduced draft Laws "On technical regulation" and "On amendments and additions to certain legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on technical regulation", which strengthened the powers of the authorized body, expanded the competence to remove unsafe products from circulation, increased requirements for the process and subjects of accreditation;

- work is being carried out to strengthen the responsibility for violations of accreditation entities and persons who issue products;

- automation of accreditation processes has been carried out, work is underway to digitalize the certification and declaration system.

This work is carried out by the Ministry on an ongoing basis