The products with Certificate of Conformity must have special marking — it is a sign of products on the market of the Customs Union and informs consumers that the products passed the quality check.

The advantages of product certification:

• significantly increase of sales and prospects of business development;

• significantly decrease of documents volume and time for their issue;

• preferential treatment of transportation and sale;

• strengthened consumer confidence in the product;

• increased competitiveness among its analogues;

• you receive a guarantee of high quality of the product;

• reduces the amount of low-quality and the identical products on the market.

3. Where to obtain TR CU Certificate of Conformity

It is possible to obtain the TR CU Certificate of Conformity with the help of experts. To do this you need to apply and provide the necessary documents. The rest will be done by experts and you will have to pick up your certificates at the appointed time.

4. Steps of issuing TR CU Certificate of Conformity

There are several certification schemes, usually they include:

1. Collect the necessary documents.

2. Conduct a series of tests with the subsequent recording of the results in the protocol.

3. Apply for the Certification.

4. Transfer of documents to the certified and accredited center.

5. Verification of submitted documents.

6. Registration of the TR CU Certificate of Conformity, assigning it a number, making an entry in the unified register of TR CU certificates.

Application for a certificate of conformity can submit producers and organizations registered on the territory of the Customs Union performing the functions of foreign manufacturers.

During the preliminary analysis of the documents the applicant and certification experts define what technical regulations apply to the products and which certification scheme can be applied to it.

Sampling of products for testing should be done from the warehouse that ships the products of the applicant. Tests are mandatory in almost all schemes except of the scheme 9c. Certification bodies are responsible to fulfill all the rules of verification of product quality. In turn, the applicant should verify the adequacy of the data about the product. If the data is given with the errors or samples tests were not carried out, the certificate is invalidated and all stakeholders — the Federal accreditation service, Rospotrebnadzor and others will get a notification.

Testing of product samples is conducted solely in the test center which is officially included in the Unified register of testing laboratories of the Customs Union. The certification body shall consider all the materials, which prove the product quality relevant to the Standards and verifies the materials at his disposal from the applicant. The task of the body sometimes is also to analyze the condition of the manufacturing capabilities of the company, wishing to obtain the certificate. For example, according to the General requirements of the authorities it is impossible to obtain a certificate for serial production of goods without assessment of its current state.