Law of the Republic of Tajikistan
«CERTIFICATION»
Production certificate (further certification) is the activity on confirmation in compliance with
established requirements.
Certification is carried out for following goals:
- consumers’ defence interests in issues regarding production safety for life, health and
property, environment protection, information compatibility and production interchangeability;
- creating condition for undertaking , institution, organizations and enterprise activities at single
- goods market of the Republic of Tajikistan, and also for participation in international economic,
scientific – technical collaboration and international trade;
- consumers assistance to production choice components;
- production quality index confirmation, declared manufacturer(seller).
Certification can have following obligatory and voluntary character.
Organization structure’s system shall form:
- state (national) body on certification, central, regional bodies on certification, bodies on
production and quality system, testing laboratories (centers) , enterprises, institutions and
organizations, irrespective of property form, and also public organizations.
There can be several similar production certicate systems in certification system.
Certification systems are subject to state registration in prescribed manner.
The function of state (national) body on certification of the Republic of Tajikistan is entrusted to
authority body of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan in conformity with present Law
should carry out following tasks:
- forms and realizes the state policy in the field of certification holding at the territory of the
Republic of Tajikistan and officially informs about them;
-publishes official information on certification systems and compliance mark in force in the
Republic of Tajikistan and submit it in prescribed manner to international (regional)
organizations on certification;
- conduct state registration of certification system and compliance mark, bodies on certification,
testing laboratories (centers);
- prepare the proposal on joining to international (regional) certification system and also to make
contract with international organizations on mutual acknowledgement results of certification;
- submit proposals to international (regional) organization on certification issues in prescribed
manner of the Republic of Tajikistan;
- inform international (regional) organization on certification the certification systems, bodies on
certification in force in the country.
Organization and conducting activity on certification obligatory is entrusted to authority body of
the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, in case of provided legislation of the Republic of
Tajikistan with respect to the certain type of production can entrusted to other state
management bodies.
The participants of obligatory certification are authorized body of the Government of the
Republic of Tajikistan, other state management bodies of Republic of Tajikistan, these
authorized will conduct activities on obligatory certification, laboratory testing (centers),
production manufacturer (sellers, executors) and also central bodies certification system,
determined in necessary cases for organization and coordination activity in the similar
production certificate systems.
Registered noncommercial units and organization any form of property are allowed to
participate in conducting activity on obligatory certification under condition their accreditation in
conformity with management body.
The authority body of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and other state management
bodies, which legislation acts of the Republic of Tajikistan entrusts them to organize and
conduct activity on certificate obligatory have following tasks within their competence:
- form the similar production certificate systems and establish rule procedures and management
for conducting certification in these systems;
- carry out the choice of way of confirmation conformity production normative documents
requirements (certification form);
- define central body of certification system;
- accredit the bodies on certification and laboratory testing (centers) and give them permission
to the right of conducting curtain types of activities;
- conduct state registration of participants and certificate objects;
- establish acknowledgement order of foreign certificates, compliance mark and testing results;
- establish accreditation order and issue of licence for conducting activity on certificate;
- carry out state control and inspection and establish inspection control order over observe
certification rule and for certification production;
- review appeal on certificate issues;
- issue of certificates and license for applying of compliance mark.
Production manufacturer (sellers and executors), subjected certification obligatory are
responsible for carrying out following activities:
- realize the production only in the presence of certificate given or acknowledged by authorized
body;
- provide compliance normative document production requirements, which was certificated and
- compliance marking;
- point out the information on certificate in the good delivery documentation and provide this
information up to consumers;
- stop realization of certificated production, if it is not meting normative documents, by the
expiration effect of certificate conformity or in the case, if certificate effect has been stopped or
cancelled by the decision of body on certificate;
- provide without difficulty executing their authorities officials and bodies, carrying out obligatory
certification production and control over certificated production;
- inform bodies on certificate about changes included in technical documentations or in technical
process of certificated production.
In contracts (agreement) terms, made on supply of production to the Republic of Tajikistan,
subjected certificate obligatory should be provided the presence of certificate and compliance
mark, confirming it conformity with established requirements.
These certificates should be issued or acknowledged by the authority bodies of the Republic of
Tajikistan.
Certificates or documents and their acknowledgement are submitted to the customs bodies
together with cargo custom declaration and they are necessary documents for receiving
permission to production export from the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan.
Under absence of document, confirmed safety production import, custom’s control bodies will
prohibit its import up to the decision this issue on conducting certification or acknowledgement
foreign certificate and inform authority body of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan.
On production, not subjected in conformity with legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan on
certificate obligatory, by the initiative of juridical person and citizen will be lead voluntary
certificate on terms between claimer and body on certificate.
Voluntary certificate can be carried out by any juridical person who taken function of bodies on
voluntary certificate and registered certification in authorized body of the Government of the
Republic of Tajikistan in established order.
Under observance of indicated term, voluntary certificate will be lead by bodies on certificate
obligatory.
Under making agreement on conducting of voluntary certificate, the claimer has right to receive
necessary information on rules of production certificate from body on certificate and determine
the form of certificate.
Major normative-legal acts are the following:
-The Law of the Republic of Tajikistan “On certification of products and services”