2. Bases of the certification

The confirmation of correspondence can be achieved in the required (required certification) and voluntary forms (voluntary certification).

Required certification is the form of government control and can be achieved only in the cases, provided by legislative acts RК, T. e. by laws and by the normative reports of government RК. Basic purpose of conducting the required certification of goods (works, services) - confirmation of their safety for the life, the health of user, that surrounds media and averting of the causation for harm to the property of user.

Voluntary certification is conducted on the initiative applicants (producers, salesmen, executors) for purposes of the confirmation of correspondence of production (services) to the requirements of standards, technical specifications and other documents, determined by applicant. Basic purpose of conducting voluntary certification - guarantee of competitive ability of the production (service) of enterprise; the advertisement of the production (service), which corresponds not only to the requirements of safety, but also to the requirements, which ensure the quality of output (service). Thus, voluntary certification solves the wider circle of tasks and is more attractive and more informative for the buyer, than required.

In Kazakhstan at present predominates required certification, abroad - voluntary.

The teething tendency of the reduction of the nomenclature of the production, which is subject to required certification, will promote to the expansion of voluntary certification.

In the certified goods reveals the certificate of correspondence - document of the system of certification.

The production, to which is given out the certificate, is marked by the sign of correspondence, accepted in the system (Fig. 1).

Labeling production by the sign of correspondence accomplishes producer (salesman). The performance of the sign of correspondence must be contrasting against the background of surface, to which it is substituted. Labeling production should be accomplished by the methods, which ensure the resistance of correspondence to the external influencing factors.

Fig. 1. Signs of the correspondence e to system ALL-UNION STATE STAN:

a - the sign of correspondence with the required certification; b- the sign of correspondence “the systems of voluntary certification” of the RF State Committee on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification; в - the sign of correspondence to the requirements of the national standard of the Kazakhstan.

The certificates of correspondence come into force from the date of their registration in the routine. The period of the action of certificate establishes organ for certification, not more than for 3 years.

Although the law of RF “about the protection of the rights of users” provides by sole information source against the certification marking by the sign of correspondence and the indication in the technical documentation of the information about conducting of certification, the government document (rules of sale of the separate forms of goods dated January 19, 1998.) allows this information source as the copy of certificate.

Of the copies of certificates it can give out organ for certification, given out original, or another organ for certification with the presentation to it original. Can be used also the copies of certificates, assured in the notaries office or by enterprises - holders of the first copy of certificates. State standard permitted confirmation with the inspection checking of the presence (in salesman) by the idea of commodity- invoice with the die, on which must be indicated the number of the registration of certificate, the date of its delivery, the period of action the designation of the organ, which gave out certificate. In addition to this must be indicated the address, telephone and surname of the holder of certificate- original or certificate of the first copy.

The copy of certificate must be double-sided, is executed by electrographic method and it is assured by the signature of critical linden and by the press organization, on each copy must be placed the die of organization and be indicated the output, to which is extended this copy.

Law of RK “About the certification of production and services” (in ed. from 31.07.98) determined not the obligation, but the possibility of affirming of correspondence of the established requirements in the form the declaration about the correspondence. The affirmed by government RK enumeration of the production, the correspondence to which can be confirmed declaration (it constantly is enlarged), it actually contains the slightly hazardous forms of the goods: lenses, notebook, wall-papers, sugar, baked articles, saccharine confectionery articles, fats animal are food, article macaroni and so forth.

The introduction of the declaration of correspondence in Kazakhstan is caused by the need: giving greater flexibility to the procedures of the required confirmation of correspondence; reduction in the expenditures for their conducting without an increase in the risk of the danger in the realizable on the Russian market production; the acceleration of commodity turnover; the creation of the favorable conditions for the development of intergovernmental trade and entrance of Russia into the world commercial organization (WCO).

The form of declaration is asserted by the federal organ of executive power on the technical regulation. The designed according to the established rules declaration is subject to registration by the federal organ of executive power on the technical regulation during three days.

In the immediate future the declaration of correspondence will become as abroad, the predominant form of the required confirmation of correspondence. It will not be limited by slightly hazardous production. The level of potential hazard in production will be considered in the diagram of declaration, in the case of increasing the risk from the use of production the volume of demonstrative base will increase.

Responsibility for the disturbance of the rules of certification is determined by constitution RK, law of RK “About the protection of the rights of users”, by federal law “About the technical regulation” and by other federal laws.

Control questions

1. What is the certificate of the correspondence of production?

2. How is characterized by required and voluntary certification?

3. The distinguishing features of declaration from the certification of the correspondence to production.