The Law of the Republic of Moldova of 22.12.2006 No. 420 "On Technical Regulation" establishes general requirements for the content and procedure for the development, publication and application of technical regulations.

Technical regulations are developed taking into account the harmonization of national legislation with EU and international legislation. The technical regulations of Moldova can be found at: http://estandard.md/Regulation/RegulationSearch.

The catalog of Moldova's standards is available at: http://estandard.md/.

For areas in which there is harmonized European Union legislation (New Approach Directives), national technical regulations are based on this legislation.

After the entry into force of the Law of 22.12.2006 no. 420 "On technical regulation" the list of goods subject to mandatory conformity assessment in Moldova is not applied.

Product safety, which is not covered by the technical regulations of Moldova, is regulated within the framework of the Law “On General Product Safety”.

For products falling within the areas of EU harmonized legislation, the following conformity assessment procedures are defined in the European Parliament and Council Decision no. 768 [4] and applied in the EU. They provide for each product category one module or a corresponding combination of the following modules:

a) module A - internal production control;

b) Module A1 - Internal production control and controlled product testing;

c) module A2 - internal production control and controlled product inspections at arbitrary intervals;

d) module B - testing of a type sample of products for compliance with European requirements;

e) module C - conformity to the product type based on internal production control;

f) module C1 - conformity to the type sample of products based on internal production control and controlled testing of the product;

g) module C2 - conformity to the type sample of products based on internal production control and controlled checks of the product at arbitrary intervals;

h) module D - conformity to the product type based on quality assurance of the manufacturing process;

i) Module D1 - Manufacturing Quality Assurance;

j) Module E - conformity to the product type based on product quality assurance;

k) Module E1 - Quality Assurance in the Inspection and Testing of the End Product;

l) Module F - conformity to the type based on product verification;

m) Module F1 - Compliance Based on Product Verification;

n) Module G - Compliance based on unit verification;

o) Module H - Compliance Based on Full Quality Assurance;

p) Module H1 - Compliance Based on Full Quality Assurance and Design Review.

 Products subject to conformity assessment in the regulated area, prior to their introduction on the market, are marked by the manufacturer with the SM (Standard moldovenescu) conformity mark, if the technical regulations provide for such marking. The SM marking indicates its compliance with the basic requirements established by technical regulations based on harmonized Community legislation (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Marking of conformity SM