29.06.2015 Anastasiya Samusenko, lawyer at Maxima Legal

New Law on Standardization

On 29 June Federal Law No.162-F3 “On Standardization in the Russian Federation” was passed. It comes into force on 29.09.2015 and is aimed at the structuring and systematization of normative-legal regulation in the standardization of goods, services and other objects of standardization, including for the purposes of technical regulation.

The existing Russian standardization system was largely retained, but the legislator regulated a number of matters in more detail, in particular those concerning the functions and powers of federal organs of state authority in the standardization sphere.

The law increased the powers of the federal executive body in the standardization sphere (currently Rosstandart). Rosstandart was given a range of rulemaking powers, for example in the establishment of the procedure of work on standardization, the procedure for carrying out expert examinations of project documents of the national system of standardization, and so on.

The legislation also regulates the general rules relating to the creation and activity of technical standardization committees implementing the development of national standards. Technical standardization committees may be set up on a permanent or temporary basis and are formed according to the results of consideration by the federal executive authority of applications from those who can be members of technical committees.
In addition, the law stipulates the creation of appeals commissions, whose powers will include consideration of complaints by applicants against the decision of the federal executive body on standardization.

The information responsibilities of the federal executive body on standardization have been more precisely defined and extended – in particular, responsibilities relating to the publication of information concerning activity in the sphere of standardization on the Internet, and relating to setting up and running a Federal Information Fund of Standards (it will include documents on the national standardization system, Russia-wide classifications, international standards, regional standards, standards of foreign countries, codes of rules, regional codes of rules, codes of rules of foreign countries and other documents on standardization).

The legislation increases the list of documents in the national standardization system by the creation of informative-technical guides containing systematized information in a particular field and including a description of technologies, processes, methods, means, equipment and other data.

See: Federal Law No.162-F3 of 29.06.2015 “On Standardization in the Russian Federation”.