Category: Russia

The Government of the Russian Federation issued Resolution 955 that amends Resolution “On market access certification mark” on June 21, 2021.

This CTP mark now should be used for products that successfully pass the mandatory national conformity assessment procedure according to the “Technical Regulation” Federal Law. The national conformity assessment procedure is applicable only when the product is out of EAEU technical regulations requirements.

Before the validity of the Resolution, the CTP mark should be applied only when the product was in the scope of the national technical regulations. However, these regulations have been cancelled once the relevant EAEU technical regulations appeared as they served as the transitional documents that allowed national manufacturers to prepare for the EAEU regulations requirements. Products that were not subject to these national technical regulations fall under the national certification system of Rosstandard (previously, GOST R system) and should bear PCT conformity mark. There were mandatory and voluntary conformity assessment procedures within the national certification system of Rosstandard.

Now products that fall under the mandatory requirements within the national certification system of Rosstandard must bear CTP and not PCT mark. However, according to the Government notice, productions that have been approved before the effectiveness date of these amendments, can continue to enter the Russian market with the PCT mark until the termination of the issued certificates.

The original text of the Resolution you can find here.

As per Decision No 955 from the Ministry of Economic Development of Russian Federation, from the 21st of June 2021 the labelling mark for devices subject to GOST R Approval has now been replaced by the Circulation Mark

Approval of the procedure for declaration of conformity registration and the procedure of the register keeping in Russia. The procedure is regulated by the Order of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation # 478 and became effective from January 1, 2021.

According to the Order, when the place of goods production is out of the EAEU, the applicant should indicate Global Location Number (GLN) as well as Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) in the application form on the declaration of conformity registration. The GLN allows to identify the manufacturing place, while the GTIN allows to identify the product itself.

However, as it was discovered later, not every production unit has the GTIN and applicants also faced the problem with the GLN. For this reason, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation made some changes with regards to the GLN and the GTIN. The Ministry issued the new Order # 877 dated by December 30, 2020. The document provides a transition period with regards to the GLN indication. It also made correction to the Order #478 with regards to the GTIN. According to the amendments, the information on the GTIN is not mandatory for the indication in the application form.

Currently, the Order # 877 is on the approval. Once it is approved, the above-mentioned amendments become effective. In terms of certification, the following requirements will become mandatory from August 1, 2021, according to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation from November 18, 2020 No. 1856 “On the procedure for the formation and maintenance of a unified register of certificates of conformity, the provision of information contained in the specified register and payment for the provision of such information”.

The president of Russia has announced that the function of the Federal Communications Agency (FCA, better known as FAC) will be moved to another department within the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media of the Russian Federation.  The FAC system will continue to operate and FAC approvals will retain validity, but the approvals get expect delay during the transitional period.  Most probably the transition will take time to complete in between 6 months

electro technical devices launched in the EAEU must undergo conformity assurance procedures staring from 01.03.2020 in order to confirm their compliance with the EAEU Technical Regulation 037/2016 – Restriction of the Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrotechnical and Radio-electronic Products.

The above stated TR restricts the content of six substances (lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers) in electrotechnical and electronic devices. In general, the concentration of cadmium may not exceed 0.01% by weight in homogeneous materials used in electrotechnical and radio-electronic products. The other five substances may not exceed 0.1 wt%.

EAEU TR 037/2016 considers devices with respect to the protection of human life and health and the environment and in order to prevent actions misleading consumers / users of electrotechnical and radio-electronic devices.

EAEU TR 037/2016 is harmonized with technical requirements of the European Union, in particular with Directive 2011/65 / EU (RoHS 2). Nevertheless, some regulations, first of all those related to the scope of application, are left at the level of repealed Directive 2002/95 / EС (RoHS 1). This decision was taken since the member states of the Customs Union hadn’t have any national requirements restricting the content of hazardous substances in electrotechnical and radio-electronic products.

EAEU TR 037/2016 applies to household appliances and devices, IT equipment, telecommunication facilities, lighting and office equipment, electrical tools and electrical music instruments, sports and leisure equipment, gambling and vending machines, cash registers, cable products, protective cutout devices, fire / security detectors and other products.

Thus, these products may be manufactured and launched in the EAEU countries without a conformity assessment and documents confirming their compliance with EAEU TR 037/2016 until March 1, 2020.

Attachments:

1. EAEU TR 037/2016 regulation

2. List of devices including HS codes – customs list