Certification of Equipment in the Republic of Kazakhstan

RusEnergyLaw JOURNAL • 2'2003/Table of Contents • Article

This information will be useful for the companies importing equipment to the Republic of Kazakhstan including the equipment for oil -and- gas industry.

The Basis of Certification

Certification of the equipment in the Republic of Kazakhstan is regulated by the following principal standard legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan:

1. The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Certification", dated July 16 1999 #434-1;

2. The regulation of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 29, 2000 #1787 "On the Control of Products Conformity in the Republic of Kazakhstan";

3. "List of Products and Services subject to compulsory Certification" ratified by the regulation of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 29, 2000 #1787;

4. State Standard of the Republic of Kazakhstan ST RK 3.4 - 94 (publication);

5. State Standard of the Republic of Kazakhstan ST RK 3.9 - 97 (publication);

6. "Instruction on the order of allowance for acceptance tests, granting of permission for production (serial) output and utilization of new domestic and foreign excessive danger products used in the branches of industry supervised by the state control authorities for prevention and elimination of the emergencies" ratified by the order of the Emergency Agency Chairman dated November 29 1999 #256.

The certification is necessary for the following purposes:

1) Provision of operational safety of the equipment for the life and health of the people, the property and environment;

2) Provision of technical and information compatibility;

3) Provision of safety for the economic objects, taking into consideration the natural and man-caused disasters risks;

4) Consumerism activity concerning the quality of products, (works) processes and services;

5) Arrangement of conditions for the activity of natural and legal persons on the goods market of the Republic of Kazakhstan and for participation in the international economic, scientific and technical collaboration and in the international trade.

Types of certification

The legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan provides for obligatory and voluntary certification.

The Subject to the obligatory certification is the equipment specified in the list of goods, works and services ratified by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Accredited certification bodies can provide certification on request of the Applicant (manufacturer, vendor, executive) (voluntary certification).

The Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan prohibits advertising and utilization of the equipment subject to certification in the Republic of Kazakhstan without certificates of conformity. Selling of the products subject to obligatory certification without certificates is also prohibited.

The Equipment subject to the obligatory certification

The following equipment subjects to the obligatory certification:

1. Agricultural machinery and equipment;

2. Electrotechnical, radio engineering and electronic equipment;

3. Heating equipment powered by oil, solid and gas fuel;

4. Woodworking equipment;

5. Building materials and constructions;

6. Light industry equipment;

7. Medical and veterinary facilities, medical and veterinary goods and sanitary means;

8. Fuel raw material resources;

9. Equipment for the potentially dangerous (hazardous) industries.

However one of the indispensable conditions for obtaining of the State Control Authorities on prevention and elimination of emergencies Permission for application of the foreign and domestic equipment in the Republic of Kazakhstan is providing of the conformity certificate, issued by the accredited certification center. Accordingly there is a list of the equipment subject to additional obligatory certification:

1. The Equipment for metal mining and coal industries, quarry equipment, grinding-sorting and agglomeration concentrating factory machinery;

2. The Equipment used in oil -and- gas producing industry, geological survey and main oil and gas products lines;

3. Chemical, petrochemical and oil-and-gas refining industries equipment;

4. The Equipment for metallurgy industry;

5. The Equipment used at the objects of boiler-gas facilities, lifting gear and bakery plants;

6. Equipment (processes) used for blasting operations;

7. Mine-and-gas rescue equipment, flow head protection equipment, technique and inventory, breathing apparatus, control instrumentation and recovery aids etc.

Certification Authorities

The authorized certification bodies in the Republic of Kazakhstan are the following:

1. The Authorized organization on standardization, metrology and certification (Standardization, Metrology and Certification Committee under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Republic of Kazakhstan);

2. Accredited bodies on certification of products, processes, works and services;

3. Accredited testing laboratories (centers);

4. Accredited organizations on rendering of consulting services in the area of accreditation;

5. Experts-auditors in certification.

Marking of the equipment with the compliance mark is performed by the manufacturer by the methods providing the sharp image, resistance to the external influences, durability and etc. The certification authority shall determine the Method and place of tagging.

Certification of the Imported Equipment

Certification of the equipment imported to the Republic of Kazakhstan shall be carried out in accordance with the same schemes and regulations established by the GSS of the Republic of Kazakhstan as those for the domestic equipment, providing for the observance of the payment equivalence principles for certification.

Decisions on the foreign certificates recognition are made by the authorized state body (Standardization, Metrology and Certification Committee under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Republic of Kazakhstan). The documents for recognition are issued in the language of the importing country, Russian and Kazakh.

The following procedures for certification of the imported equipment are established in the GSS of the Republic of Kazakhstan:

Acceptance of the certificates of conformance issued by the certification authorities of CIS countries, being the parties to the Agreement;

Acceptance of the foreign certificates of conformance issued by the foreign certification authorities accredited in the GSS of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

Acceptance of the copies of the certificate of conformance issued by the certification authorities of CIS countries, being the parties to the Agreement, attested by the certification authorities or enterprises, holding the certificate of conformity;

Certification of equipment according to the requirements of ST RK 3.4.

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