CONFORMITY APPROVAL IN UZBEKISTAN
Uzbekistan (officially the Republic of Uzbekistan) is a landlocked country in Central Asia. It is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, Turkmenistan and the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan to the southwest. The capital and largest city is Tashkent.
Population of Uzbekistan is over 35 million people, so it is very prospective market for your products!
The main state institution in the field of technical regulation of Uzbekistan is “UZSTANDARD” agency. The “UZSTANDARD” agency as a national body for standardization, metrology and certification provides means for implementing national policy in the fields of standardization, metrology and conformity assessment, and represents Uzbekistan’s interests within international and regional organizations for standardization.
Main duties of the “Uzstandard” agency:
- Securing the execution of laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan «On Standardization», «On Metrology», «On Certification of Products and Services», «On Technical Regulation» and others legislative and regulatory legal acts in the field of standardization, metrology, certification;
- Publication, promotion and implementation of national and international standards
- Supervision over implementation of standards;
- Carrying out research and develop standardization, metrology and conformity assessment systems;
- Promote international system of units (S.I) and assure unified system of measurements;
- Training and development of skills;
- Assurance of consumer protection
Conformity approval of products in the Republic of Uzbekistan is carried out in accordance with Law No. ZRU-354 “On conformity assessment”.
The resulting document is Certificate of Conformity.
Products subject to conformity approval in a regulated area, before being placed on the market, should be marked by the conformity mark (Mark of Conformance О’ZST), if the regulatory act provides for such marking. Marking the product with the О’ZST mark of conformity indicates its compliance with the basic requirements established by regulatory documents.
The use of О’Z conformity mark on products that have not been subjected to conformity assessment procedures in the proper manner or do not meet the requirements established in regulatory documents, is prohibited.
Labeling rules applied for the Mark of Conformance
Typical list of documents for CoC:
- application form
- shipment contract for batch certification
- product manual/operating manual
- testing reports of the manufacturer
- technical passport/safety justification
- technical drawings/pictures
Validity of CoC:
- 1 year for mass-production CoC
- not specified for batch CoC
There are other permission documents that may be required for the import and sale of specific products in Uzbekistan.
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