The Eurasian Economic Commission has sent EAEU governments a package of measures against false conformity documents. It is due to be presented at the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in December. Meanwhile, the Commission's decision against Russia's own blocking mechanism has not taken effect.
EEC Minister for Technical Regulation Alexander Subbotin announced the package on 22 October. It is now under review by the governments of the five member states.
The main proposals:
- A digital register of test reports.
- Direct exchange of data between national accreditation bodies, including confirmation that a test report was actually issued.
- Set deadlines for answering requests and claims between countries.
The EAEU Unified Register currently lists 2,957 active conformity assessment bodies: 409 certification bodies, 2,395 testing laboratories and 153 inspection bodies.
On 21 October, the heads of EAEU accreditation bodies discussed the package in Moscow. They also accepted the second peer evaluation of Armenia's accreditation body and started an evaluation of Belarus's. An update of the EAEU information exchange process is planned for the end of Q1 2027.
Russia is already building bilateral data links. Exchange of test report data with Belarus is at the final stage; the algorithm with Kyrgyzstan has been agreed.
On 8 September, the EEC Board found that Russia's rules on suspending and terminating documents issued in other EAEU states do not comply with EAEU law (Decision No. 118). It was to take effect on 10 October.
On 24 September, following a proposal from Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, the Commission suspended the decision's entry into force until the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council considers it. Until then, Russia's mechanism continues to apply. Rosaccreditation can still terminate, for 12 months, all documents of a foreign EAEU body after three suspensions in a year. The latest case is MobiLab (Kyrgyzstan), from 30 September.
Verification is moving from one country to the whole union. A test report that cannot be traced to a real laboratory and real samples will become visible across the EAEU, not only in Russia.
Practical steps:
- Check the status of your certification body and laboratory in the EAEU Unified Register and in Rosaccreditation's list of blocked bodies.
- Keep import records for samples and the full test reports.
- When renewing documents, choose bodies whose test reports can be confirmed on request.
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